Balderdash and other words millennials haven't heard

Cher_Inactive

A recent Metro news article listed 20 words that are falling out of favour with our younger generations.  

Based on a survey of 2,000 adults, the results were as follows:

Twenty words millennials haven't heard of
Sozzled (40%) – Very drunk 
Cad (37%) – Dishonest man 
Bonk (37%) – Have sex 
Wally (36%) – Stupid person 
Betrothed (29%) – Engaged 
Nincompoop (28%) – Fool 
Boogie (28%) – Dance 
Trollop (27%) – Woman who has casual sex 
Bounder (27%) – Dishonourable man 
Balderdash (27%) – Senseless talk 
Henceforth (26%) – From now on 
Yonks – (25%) – Long time 
Lush – (23%) – Very good 
Tosh – (23%) – Rubbish 
Swot – (22%) – Someone who studies hard 
Brill – (21%) – Brilliant 
Kerfuffle – (20%) – Commotion 
Randy – (19%) – Sexually aroused
Disco – (17%) – Dance club 
Minted – (15%) – Rich

I don't know about you but these words comprise half of my vocabulary!  Also, the loss of the word disco is (as Steps would say) a tragedy...

Have you noticed any other words are disappearing?  Let us know.  

janer1967

I dont have any words that come to mind its more the other way the new words that my teen comes out with 

Cher_Inactive

@janer1967 What are they?  I'm so not down with the kids 

janer1967

Some that come to mind

Ream - Good

Sick - good

And all the text talk and gaming talk

Cher_Inactive

  My nephews say tight a lot which apparently means unfair.  For instance to their mum, "you've only given me one pound for the shop, that's so tight!"

OverlyAnxious

I wonder if they're getting Millennials confused with Zennials?  The only ones I hadn't heard there were bounder and cad.

Zennials confuse me though...  Lit?  Finna? Peng?  Send it?  Yeet?     

I don't hear 'wicked' or 'rad' anymore...

Tori_Scope

Yeet is a fantastic word and no one can tell me otherwise @OverlyAnxious. Zoomer and proud.

leeCal

Poppycock and tally aren’t used so often anymore either. I don’t understand those zennial  words at all.

ive often thought that one should use the best words to communicate according to the audience rather than for self aggrandisement, but I’m old.

woodbine

courting

leeCal

That’s what gets my goat
dunder head was something my dad used to call me on occasion, and of course that used to get my goat no end.

leeCal

Bunkum, nonsense.

what about people who used to sue for breach of promise? Ie one party calling off an engagement. I haven’t heard of anyone doing that for donkeys years, or yonks whichever you prefer. And the remedy was called heart balm!

Adrian_Scope

How can anyone in the UK get to millennial age without encountering kerfuffle?!

The only other person I've heard say 'yeet' with no sense of irony is my 10-year-old daughter. But you go for it @Tori_Scope!

leeCal

What does yeet mean @Adrian_Scope?

Adrian_Scope

I asked my 10-year-old.
She said, 'it's a term you can use to describe throwing something, and it can also be used to describe something that's cool.' At this point, my 13-year-old piped and said very dryly, 'No, no it can't.'

So, take from that what you will.  

Tori_Scope

As a fellow Young Person, I too say yeet with no hint of irony. 

Please do enlighten us @Adrian_Scope, what *does* yeet mean? ?

Adrian_Scope

I'll use it in a sentence @Tori_Scope.

The word "yeet" should be yeeted out of the English vocabulary. 

Tori_Scope

Uh, that's so not lit @Adrian_Scope. Are you even woke? 

Ami2301

I was going to say Yeet as hubby says it so often. I don't understand most of these new words nowadays, all too confusing!

Adrian_Scope

Tori_Scope said:

Uh, that's so not lit @Adrian_Scope. Are you even woke? 

Pfft. I've cancelled people for less.

Ami2301

...what does woke mean?

Tori_Scope

This is the Wikipedia definition @Ami2301:

a political term originating in the United States referring to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice.

It can be used in a few different contexts, and some people use it ironically, or as a criticism.