FabSwingers.com forum: Lost English words

By *unandbuck OP Couple
over a year ago

Sheffield

Academics at York University have uncovered 30 words 'lost' from English language. They include:

Snout-fair is a word for handsome.

Dowsabel means "lady-love".

Nickum A cheating or dishonest person

Peacockize To behave like a peacock; esp. to pose or strut ostentatiously

Rouzy-bouzy Boisterously d*unk

Ruff To swagger, bluster, domineer. To ruff it out / to brag or boast of a thing

Tremblable Causing dread or horror; dreadful

Awhape To amaze

I'll be using these as much as possible today. I might even get a bit touzy-bouzy tonight and at the weekend hopefully there'll be some dowsabel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Betrumped - to cheat or deceive. Did they know Donald Trump years ago?

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Please and thank you haven't gone yet but seem to be on the way out

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By *unandbuck OP Couple
over a year ago

Sheffield

"Please and thank you haven't gone yet but seem to be on the way out"

It's tremblable to think they could.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't know about lost, but I've always liked and used 'canny cunny' instead of its modern day translation, clever cunt.

Fuzz

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

Leeds

"Academics at York University have uncovered 30 words 'lost' from English language. They include:

Snout-fair is a word for handsome.

Dowsabel means "lady-love".

Nickum A cheating or dishonest person

Peacockize To behave like a peacock; esp. to pose or strut ostentatiously

Rouzy-bouzy Boisterously d*unk

Ruff To swagger, bluster, domineer. To ruff it out / to brag or boast of a thing

Tremblable Causing dread or horror; dreadful

Awhape To amaze

I'll be using these as much as possible today. I might even get a bit touzy-bouzy tonight and at the weekend hopefully there'll be some dowsabel

Jasus im feckin banjaxed after reading all this

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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago

Wrexham

I'm curious as to why lost English words have American spellings.

Did they pop the Zs in there to appeal to a global audience?

Finally, slug-a-bed wasn't lost. It has been in use in my family for as long as I can remember. Most often to describe a teenage me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cockwomble: Someone unable to read and understand a profile.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm curious as to why lost English words have American spellings.

Did they pop the Zs in there to appeal to a global audience?

Finally, slug-a-bed wasn't lost. It has been in use in my family for as long as I can remember. Most often to describe a teenage me."

The use of z is the English way. It was the French I think who changed them to s. We are doing it al wrong.

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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago

Wrexham

"I'm curious as to why lost English words have American spellings.

Did they pop the Zs in there to appeal to a global audience?

Finally, slug-a-bed wasn't lost. It has been in use in my family for as long as I can remember. Most often to describe a teenage me.

The use of z is the English way. It was the French I think who changed them to s. We are doing it al wrong."

Oh! Well, there's a fact I didn't know. Many thanks

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