<p>Gangbusters. For a couple of years, I didn’t know why S would look at us funny when we said something was “going like gangbusters”. He finally confessed after he found out the real origin of the phrase (old radio show) that he thought we were trying to be “cool” when we used it.</p>
<p>Has anyone mentioned…</p>
<p>More _____ than Carter has pills.</p>
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<p>I’ve actually seen it spelled both ways. In any event, I loved that word so much that I now use it any chance I get. :)</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I’ve seen it spelled either catawampus or cattywampus. I agree … great word.</p>
<p>Oh fun! How did I not see this thread before? My 13 year old was mystified a couple of weeks ago by my use of the word <em>teenyboppers</em>. Teenyboppers, meaning teenagers? It made no sense to her, and she thought I made it up.</p>
<p>I thought it meant pre-teens.</p>
<p>How about good old fashioned “soap”? I asked S’14 if he needed anything from the drugstore - shampoo, deoderant, soap.
Soap?
I corrected myself. Bodywash.</p>
<p>It’s true…I recently became aware that young people look askance at bar soap. They think they need to cleanse themselves with something from a bottle.</p>
<p>They’d freak out if they saw a bar of Ivory in the shower.</p>
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<p>Free Online Dictionary:
teen·y·bop·per (tn-bpr)
n. Slang
- A young teenage girl.
- A teenager who follows the latest fad or craze, as in dress or music.</p>
<p>Merriam-Webster Online dictionary:
Definition of TEENYBOPPER
1
: a teenage girl
2
: a young teenager who is enthusiastically devoted to popular music and to current fads</p>
<p>Cottonwood513. Not necessarily pre-teens. I had to look it up, though, to be sure. My daughter, having no context for the word, thought it sounded like a word that would describe toddlers. She took teeny as meaning <em>tiny</em> instead of teenagerish . . . I was using it to describe the teenagers in the musical “Hairspray”. I said she could try out to be one of the teenyboppers, or something like that. I’m old. I forget . . .</p>
<p>One of the comments I’ve had from my older daughter when I use one of those out of date words is “People don’t talk like that.” Oh, really? I’m not people? LOL</p>
<p>How about galoshes ? Or what it means to darn something .How about a "milk box " ?</p>
<p>We are old fashioned in our house, we still use bar soap :).</p>
<p>2 old-dashioned words I still use, though not necessarily a mystery to my S is:
comeuppance and shenanigans.</p>
<p>I’m sure someone else has probably mentioned this, but <em>thongs</em> used to mean what are now called flip-flops. So, when I say thongs, I’m not necessarily talking about underwear.</p>
<p>I don’t remember a “milk box” but I remember a bread box. I am so old! And how about slacks or trousers? I never used those terms though, too old fashioned.</p>
<p>We had a milk box at the side of our house where a milkman delivered milk and eggs twice a week . This is starting to make a comeback .</p>
<p>How about sneakers ? (Keds )</p>
<p>^^ Ok. Although we did not have a milk box, I do remember being very young, maybe 3, and seeing a milkman deliver milk in thick glass gallon containers. Must have stopped soon after, as only observed this for a short period of time. Stangely, about 12 years ago we had Alta Dena milk delivered to our door while living in California.</p>
<p>We had a milk box. Could never convince mom to order chocolate mik though. That milk box is sitting on my deck right now and has “Parkside Dairy” indented on the side.</p>
<p>My grandparents house had a milkbox built right into the house. Little door on the outside of the house and a little door on the inside so you could get the milk without leaving the house. Pretty cool. Had a laundry chute, too, that we used to play with as kids.</p>
<p>Sneakers. We had PF FLyers and Red Ball Jets.</p>