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Chifforobe: A closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes
Bit (money): The bit is equal to one eighth of a dollar or 12 ? cents
I know there's lots more. What are they?
A lot of such expressions are regional.
My paternal grandmother, who was from Iowa, is the only person I ever heard call a couch a "Davenport."
Another regional name for couch is "divan," and I rarely hear that anymore.
The same grandmother was appalled when she heard my mother use the word, "piddling," meaning engaged in useless/aimless activity. To my grandmother, "piddling" meant urination.
Lots of words have fallen out of use. Take turntable. We all know that is a phonograph, but kids now don't. Who remembers key punch operator? Nope, wasn't a locksmith either.
I think I read somewhere the average American uses about 2500 words. There's way more than that plus all the buzz words for a particular trade.
Forty-leven dozen. The only folks I've ever heard use the phrase was my Dad, and it was a favorite of his. The other person was Johnny Horton in one of his songs. He worked as a young man with my Dad and uncles. This phrase has to go back a long way, and it could not be found anywhwere on the internet until long after it was mentioned here on GB. Now, it's beginning to show up as if everybody and their brother had heard of it. Oh yes,if memory serves me right, JamesRK was one who had heard it used.
How about,
You little rabbit twisters get in the house
Your going to get a whippin' with a broom stick.
Your just a lazy fartin-knocker.
Get off your dead * (how can your * be dead?)
Give me that corn cob pipe right now.
And lastly,
Don't shoot yourself in the eye with that bb gun.
smack dab in the middle
go down the road a piece
clothes stove meaning clothes dryer
can't get there from here
over yonder
wife saying to husband "yes dear you were right and I am sorry I doubted you ''
nervous as a longtailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
nervous as a whore in church
purty as a speckled puppy in a new red wagon
built like a brick outhouse
frogstrangler of a rain
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Lollygag/lollygagging: Spend time aimlessly; idle
Davenport: Sofa/couch
Icebox: Refrigerator
Simoleon: One dollar
Chifforobe: A closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes
Bit (money): The bit is equal to one eighth of a dollar or 12 ? cents
I know there's lots more. What are they?
A lot of such expressions are regional.
My paternal grandmother, who was from Iowa, is the only person I ever heard call a couch a "Davenport."
Another regional name for couch is "divan," and I rarely hear that anymore.
The same grandmother was appalled when she heard my mother use the word, "piddling," meaning engaged in useless/aimless activity. To my grandmother, "piddling" meant urination.
Something I bet everyone of you has, but calls it something else.
"waterpump pliers"
The photo you show I call Channel Locks. What I call Water Pump pliers have a V notch cut into the jaws.
Wish in one hand, crap in the other, see which one gets filled first
I wonder who Hogan was, and how crazy could a goat get?[8D]
Lily livered
Rat fink
"Crazy as Hogan's goat."
I wonder who Hogan was, and how crazy could a goat get?[8D]
There was a man
Now please take note
There was a man
Who had a goat
He loved that goat
Indeed he did
He loved that goat
Just like a kid
One day that goat
Felt frisk and fine
Ate three red shirts
Right off the line
The man, he grabbed
Him by the back
And tied him to
A railroad track
Now, when that train
Hove into sight
That goat grew pale
And green with fright
He heaved a sigh
As if in pain
Coughed up those shirts
And flagged the train!
Pinko
a month of Sundays
Dame
Lots of words have fallen out of use. Take turntable. We all know that is a phonograph, but kids now don't. Who remembers key punch operator? Nope, wasn't a locksmith either.
I think I read somewhere the average American uses about 2500 words. There's way more than that plus all the buzz words for a particular trade.
You little rabbit twisters get in the house
Your going to get a whippin' with a broom stick.
Your just a lazy fartin-knocker.
Get off your dead * (how can your * be dead?)
Give me that corn cob pipe right now.
And lastly,
Don't shoot yourself in the eye with that bb gun.
The whole lock, stock and barrel.
Killroy was here.
As innocent as a kennedy.
"Crazy as Hogan's goat."
I wonder who Hogan was, and how crazy could a goat get?[8D]
I don't know about crazy, but could he get "deader than Kelsey's nuts"?
I don't hear "dubbah" very often, as in "don't be a dubbah" - meaning, don;t be a dummy.
I still call the fridge an "ice box" and Memorial Day "Decoration Day".
go down the road a piece
clothes stove meaning clothes dryer
can't get there from here
over yonder
wife saying to husband "yes dear you were right and I am sorry I doubted you ''
I was the youngest of four brothers.
raining like a cow pizzing on a flat rock.
Sweating like a lady of ill repute in a church-
dooless, wouldn't hit a lick at a snake
bealed, infected, swole up
smarter than a housecat
hold yer tater
s#$ccing in high cotton
tighter than dicks hatband
hard road, paved
poke, brown paper bag
poke store, likker store
Deader than a doornail,
slicker'n snot on a doorknob
quote:Originally posted by m88.358win
Please.
Thank you.
Mam.
Sir.
I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
I wish that wasn't so true.[V]
Me t[:(!][V]!
nervous as a whore in church
purty as a speckled puppy in a new red wagon
built like a brick outhouse
frogstrangler of a rain
atypical to mean strange.
Niggardly to mean cheap.
friend to mean cigarette or kindling.
Dike to mean a dam.
The PC crowd certainly ruined some otherwise perfectly good phrases.
I'm betting the auto correct strips some of these and I have to go back in and edit...
EDIT, YES it DID.
1. Gya (rearrange that) was changed to happy.
2. Qeueer to mean strange.
4. Fgaot (rearrange that) to mean cigarette or kindling.
Because even on GB, you can't use perfectly normal words apparently.
Please.
Thank you.
Mam.
Sir.
I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
+10
quote:Originally posted by m88.358win
Please.
Thank you.
Mam.
Sir.
I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
Dumber than a sled load of hog poop being pulled uphill in the winter time.
Got the skitters. Reference to a bathroom intestinal problem.
Scurry out of here. Combination of Scram and hurry.
8 track tape. Predecessor to the cassette tape.
Reel to reel. Predecessor to the 8 track tape.
Album. Predecessor to the reel to reel.
45. Predecessor to the album. Record player turned at 45rpm.
78. Predecessor to the 45. Record player turned at 78rpm.
Turntable. Record player. Stylus. Hi-Fi. Quadriphonic.
Did I just give away my age?[:D]
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