83 Old Slang Phrases We Should Bring Back - Mental Floss
Jun 8, 2023 · History is full of fun, fascinating old school slang terms that are well overdue for a comeback.
50 Vintage Slang Words That Sound Hilarious Today - Best Life
Dec 19, 2020 · Here are 50 vintage slang terms that once-upon-a-time dominated the world, today only elicit laughter and raised eyebrows.
50+ Old Fashioned Insults - The Art of Manliness
Sep 4, 2022 · Below we’ve put together 50 of our favorite old-time put-downs, with their original definitions pulled directly from dictionaries published more than a century back (with some …
What 'cool beans' and 50 other old-timey slang words mean
Nov 3, 2022 · From the 1950s to the 1990s, there have been dozens of slang terms that have come and gone. Stacker researched 50 from that period and defined what they meant.
100 Slang Terms From the 20th Century No One Uses Anymore
Oct 6, 2020 · So please hop in our time machine as we take you through the greatest slang terms of the 20th century—from the tough-guy 1950s to the totally rad 1990s—which were once all …
88 Vintage Slang Terms To Bring Back Immediately - Bustle
May 22, 2014 · Sure, you could spend the rest of your writing life using pristine, multi-syllabic words from the 16th century that have been honed into Latinate diamonds by the passage of …
Our Best Historical Slang Terms - Merriam-Webster
But beaucoup in English doesn't do quite the same thing; instead of being an adverb of degree, it's a slangy adjective meaning "many" or "much," as in "beaucoup slang words." Current …
59 Quick Slang Phrases From The 1920s We Should Start Using …
Jan 16, 2024 · If you’ve ever wanted to talk like characters from an old movie or the folks from The Great Gatsby, now’s your chance. For the twenties lovers among us, here are 59 of the …
19 Old-Timey Slang Terms to Bolster Your Vocabulary - Mental Floss
One of my favorite reference books on our office bookshelf is the Dictionary of American Slang (1967 edition). Here are some words and phrases you should awkwardly shoehorn into …
Historical Dictionary of American Slang - alphaDictionary.com
The alphaDictionary Historical Dictionary of American Slang presents a unique way for studying slang. It contains over 2200 slang words with the centuries in which they were first printed.