20 Odd Slang Terms and Activities from the Roaring Twenties That Prove Young People Have Always Been Confusing
edit: Oh, I've just gone and reposted Lockhouse's link I wondered where I found it!
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There is no way that nearly 1 in 5 don't know the word Disco. I call BS. (silent disco is everywhere)
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostNah, for once the learned Dr Johnson was barking up the wrong tree!
It was originally Elizabethan (i.e. around the time of Drake and Raleigh) Naval slang and meant an ineffectual officer, whose foppish and/or otherwise incompetent ways meant he would never be promoted to captain, i.e. a short form of "ne(v)er come (to a) poop (deck)", the poop deck being the upper deck where the ship's captain would strut around giving orders to all and sundry.
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Originally posted by vetran View Postnot according to Mentalfloss who have some great other words - but WWWwords is probably more reputable
The Origins of 9 Great British Insults | Mental Floss.
Nincompoop
For such a colloquial word, nincompoop actually has a very learned past. Samuel Johnson, the compiler of England’s first proper dictionary, claims the word comes from the Latin phrase non compos mentis (“not of right mind”), and was originally a legal term.
It was originally Elizabethan (i.e. around the time of Drake and Raleigh) Naval slang and meant an ineffectual officer, whose foppish and/or otherwise incompetent ways meant he would never be promoted to captain, i.e. a short form of "ne(v)er come (to a) poop (deck)", the poop deck being the upper deck where the ship's captain would strut around giving orders to all and sundry.Last edited by OwlHoot; 30 October 2020, 11:44.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostLush was used in Gavin and Stacey. That was mid 2000s so not that long ago.
I think we should use "ipsedixitism" more. But that is a new word.
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