What's a word you haven't heard used in years?

happy ;_;
- Heh, I use it everyday
  "I wish I was happy..."
- me_irl

Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.
- Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.
- Ditto to frankincense
  
  I've seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.

There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.
And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.
Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.
- There's a John Mulaney joke about this
  
  Huh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?
  Found the podcast...
- As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.
- As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol

Disestablishmentarianism.
- I wish I could say the same. But my kids say it a lot..
  "Antidisestablishmentarianism"
  (To be fair, they like looking up words to see who can find the biggest ones.)
  
  Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.

Covfefe
- I say this almost daily lol
  
  How?

Affordable housing
- So "affordablehousing" then? 😂
  
  Looks German

Cowabunga and tubular!
80s were a good time!
- Gnarly, dude.
- Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can't help myself and say "totally tubular my dude!" Lol
- Rad!
  
  I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!
- Bodacious!
- I say cowabunga all the time...
- Gnarly!

Truthiness
- As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"
  
  Just remember that even though None is Falsy, an array of Nones is Truthy. Gets me every time. I fucking understand it logically (because the array itself exists) but damnit if I can make my lizard brain comprehend it while coding it.
- Strategery

Discombobulate

Vituperative. It's such a good word too.
- Oh, that's good. A new one for me!
  
  From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: vituperative adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]
  
  Isn't that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.
  Also garrolous is a good word.

Information superhighway
- Cyberspace!
- The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big ~~truck~~ highway. It's a series of tubes.
  
  Tubelor.

Surplus

Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.
- Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.
- Maybe like embroidered dags?
  https://www.outfit4events.com/runtime/cache/images/redesignProductFull/mna-1065x.JPG
  
  Nope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. It’s dag, yo.

Fleek
Thankfully.

Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.

Skedaddle
- I shout this at the cat when she's underfoot
  
  Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.
- I use this very regularly.
- Skadoodle
  
  Cheese it

I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.
rorted - being high
having a pash - intense kissing
- Too right. Someone in my household reminded us that we used to use munted all the time, so we're bringing it back into our vocab, haha
  Munted - mutated, fucked up, borken
- We used to use rorted to mean... well it would be past tense for hitting a bong, "to rort" being the verb. I am in the UK and have no idea where that slang came from.

MOIST
- Lol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.
  
  I blame How I Met Your Mother
- The night was moist...
- Keep your starship out of my backyard.
  (JN Chaney book reference)

Defenestrate. What a word!
- Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.
- Wait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven't heard?

Baud
- 250k baud or 500k baud?
- I write firmware, this is a daily term
  
  I too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
- I will always love those old modem tones

I love you too.
It's not a single word though.
- Hugs from an internet stranger.
- ಠ_ಠ

Mack
"Did you mack her?"
So dumb lol
- Just realized I forgot about this one lol

Schadenfreude
- Pronounced scoodin’ n’froody in case anybody was wondering.
  
  This is still my favorite pronunciation video ever. Gets me every time.

Floppy (disk)
Choke (on a vehicle)

Crunk

bitchin
wicked

Trill
Booyah!
Pimpin
- That pimpin' Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck...
  
  Lol! ^ When you download the wrong episode of Star Trek off limewire O.O
- Haven't played any Splatoon lately?
- Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill
- "Pimpmobile" is one of my most-used terms!

Bodacious
Tubular
Take a whiz
Majorly

Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.
24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?
- It's how I describe my job.
  Sorry Zeus! I didn't mean it!

fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)
- I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
- Your lungs thank you.
- I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.

saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age

Splendid

Dodecahedron
- heard that one earlier today ...
  
  Matt Parker or Steve Mould?

Sozzled.
French for drunk.
Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.

Grody
- To the max.

Flabbergasted.

yolo
- you only YOLO once
  yoYOLOo

ciggie

sploosh

Yonder

Bibliobibuli
A person who reads too much

Guffaw

- OMG, helping my kid through home schooling during lockdown and I found out what this word meant.... Made my brain go flumph just trying to pronounce it correctly! ;)
- Sounds right.

Synergy
- Like a boss.

As someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"
- I'd love it if "groovy" came back
  
  You're everywhere!!

Renob
It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school

cowabunga

Spoot!
Ignoramus
Teleconference
Indubitably
- Is the Spoot in reference to Angry Beavers?!
  
  Put some stank on it Daggy!

Middle class

Dociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.
Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.
- Why "licious" instead of "listic?"
  
  That darn Autocorrect!

Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.

Bufty.
Heard it frequently 20 years ago and now it's dropped off the face of the planet as casual homophobia has become a bit less prevelant.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often

Cahoots

Cluster Fuck
Unfuckulate
I have a passion for the word "fuck" I need to get back to. I love the word "cunt" but thats too volatile so I had to retire that word.
Ass hat
Clown Shoes
Banana Head
Yeah most of my terms are personal attacks on morons I work with.
- I use "ass hat" and "clusterfuck" regularly.
  
  FUBAR is another
  I also go Ricky (I'm an American):
  Worst case Ontario
  What comes around is all around.
- I cannot resist labeling ridiculous things as clown shoes.