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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. ... 1960s slang (3 P) 1970s slang (4 P) 1980s slang (1 C, 8 P) 1990s slang (2 C, 19 P)
1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s; 2030s; ... Valleyspeak (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "1980s slang" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of ...
1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Pages in category "1960s slang" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
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 ...
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 ...
An early use of the word is in the trailer to the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, which depicts various viewers' reactions to the films, wherein a few of the younger viewers use the word “groovy” to describe the film. The term was also part of the title of a TV program called The Groovy Show, which ran from 1967 to 1970.