Words that don't get used as often as they should anymore.

[mac56]

I'll start:

"Monkeyshines"

How come you don't hear the word "monkeyshines" used anymore? It really sums up its idea very nicely.

[Redstone]

1. Quondam.

Redstone

[LynzM]

8. And for everyone else like me

Who doesn't know what that means:

That once was; former: “the quondam drunkard, now perfectly sober”

Thanks Redstone, I learned something today.

[Redstone]

11. Ya welcome. See my next post for more trivia.

Redstone

[CBHagman]

2. I nominate "chaste."

Maybe it's because NO ONE IS. :-)

[Sanity Claws]

3. Moxie

As in wow, she's got moxie. Now people use a vulgar sexist phrase, like she's got balls.

[Left Is Write]

4. Perhaps Penn Jillette's daughter will change all of that.

[mac56]

5. Yeah! Exactly!

It sums up its idea without vulgarity.

Oops. Maybe I just answered my own question.

[demnan]

6. Serendipity

One of my favorites.

[Sanity Claws]

13. A favorite of Dr. Frasier Crane too!!

[Left Is Write]

21. One of mine too. I use it whenever appropriate.

[Burma Jones]

7. Shenanigans

Of course, we can just say bullshit.......

[Sanity Claws]

14. I still use that word

Does that mean I am hopelessly out of date? ;0

[Redstone]

22. But "shenanigans" doesn't mean the same thing as

"bullshit" does. Actually, the word the other poster used, "monkey shines" is closer.

Redstone

[mac56]

9. How about "rootin'-tootin'"?

Just not used often enough.

[LynzM]

10. Loathe

To replace the overuse of the word 'hate'. I loathe a lot of things, but there are very few things I actually hate.

[YankeyMCC]

12. Huzzah

[chemenger]

15. Forsooth!

I'll never understand why that word passed from the daily vernacular. Prithy also.

[ret5hd]

16. "the bee's knees"

[u4ic]

17. "please" , "thank you" and "excuse me"

It seems like politeness isn't "kewl" anymore...:eyes:

[Xandor]

18. concinnity. hornswoggle.

[The Magistrate]

19. Two Of My Favorites....

Skylarking, and shenannigans....

[mac56]

24. Good to hear from you , sir!

Haven't been fortunate enough to see your posts lately.

[Sanity Claws]

28. what does skylarking mean?

[mac56]

29. Frolicking and carousing.

nm

[Evergreen Emerald]

20. Curmudgeon

the quondam drunkard is now perfectly sober and therefore a cumudgeon

[CrownPrinceBandar]

23. "ods bodkins".

[mac56]

25. How about "woolgathering"?

nm

[lpbk2713]

26. Apologize

As in --- My fault, I apologize.

[MrsMatt]

27. pecksniffian

now that's a word for our current administration.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

30. I like fortuitous...

also I love "local constabulary" or the phrase "take to task". My husband was brought up in the country and he often "trades with these folks" or at other times he "doesn't have any truck with these folks."
Sometimes local pronunciations are interesting as well. I was going out on a boat with some friends in upper Michigan. The captain told us that if we didn't have life jackets we could use the kooishins. I asked him what a kooishin was and he lifted up a stuffed plastic pillow. We said, "Oh...the Cushions!" After he left another friend said, "Hey, look at this! We can have Ko-i-tis on the Koo-ishuns!"