On the very crowded ride home on the bus tonight I was thinking about the word “Hornswoggled”. Because that’s how I roll, baby.
We don’t use this nearly enough any more. We’ve become laxidasical in our idioms and tarnation if I don’t want my past participle to be just a LITTLE more colorful. One might, for example, think “Well, I’ll be hornswoggled” and I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that people will respect you as someone who is HEP to the jive. Cool, Daddy-O. Real cool.
What word would YOU like to see make a comeback?
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How about jive turkey? That’s not terribly old, but it’s gone out of use so I think it fits the criteria.
Squil-Bob, you jive turkey! That’s an awesome expression! Keep on truckin’!