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5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
Slang words by decade they were widely used in. This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories. Subcategories.
(v.) to store away [old criminals' slang revived in US] (n.) a hiding place, or something (esp. drug or liquor) stored away* staycation: travelling for pleasure within one's own country (US: domestic vacation) a holiday or vacation where the people return home each night (or most nights) stick abuse, insult, or denigration ("to give stick")
Linguists Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer go through the history of some of the most popular slang words ever and talk about not only their origins, but why some of them have gone out of style ...
The 20th century was a truly special time. One day we were "cruisin' for a bruisin'" with some "greasers" at the "passion pit," the next we're telling a Valley Girl to "talk to the hand"—or ...
List of South African slang words; List of sports idioms; T. List of terms referring to an average person This page was last edited on 5 April 2023, at 22:23 ...
Arizona special-education math teacher Philip Lindsay, who filmed a viral TikTok video listing 24 slang words he hears in school, asked his middle school students to define preppy in a different ...