Balderdash and other words millennials haven't heard

Cher_Alumni
Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
edited October 2020 in Coffee lounge
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.  

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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    I dont have any words that come to mind its more the other way the new words that my teen comes out with 
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
    @janer1967 What are they?  I'm so not down with the kids  :D
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Some that come to mind

    Ream - Good

    Sick - good

    And all the text talk and gaming talk
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
     :D 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
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,167 Championing
    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
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    Yeet is a fantastic word and no one can tell me otherwise @OverlyAnxious. Zoomer and proud.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    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.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited October 2020
    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
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited October 2020
    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
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,750 Online Community Programme Lead
    edited October 2020
    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
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    What does yeet mean @Adrian_Scope?
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,750 Online Community Programme Lead
    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. :D 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    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
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,750 Online Community Programme Lead
    I'll use it in a sentence @Tori_Scope.

    The word "yeet" should be yeeted out of the English vocabulary. 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    Uh, that's so not lit @Adrian_Scope. Are you even woke? 
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Online Community Member Posts: 7,877 Championing
    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
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,750 Online Community Programme Lead
    Tori_Scope said:
    Uh, that's so not lit @Adrian_Scope. Are you even woke? 
    Pfft. I've cancelled people for less.
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Online Community Member Posts: 7,877 Championing
    ...what does woke mean?
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    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.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Way too confusing for me, I prefer standard English language as spoken by ...Jeremy Paxman. 

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