50 obsolete words that age you instantly
These words may have been relevant at some point, but it's time to update your lexicon.
In the last quarterly update at the Oxford English Dictionary, more than 900 new words have been added (and, as a result, more than 900 ways to modernize your vocabulary). And with each new word that enters the cultural lexicon, another is required to fall by the way. (Yes, that's why you are unlikely to hear complaints about "whippersnappers" and "woo" practices among today's current young referees.) So, before creating your young friends and colleagues Trotting a dam ofTerms transported, Dyed these obsolete words that instantly had. And if you think about the local lingo where you live,Can you guess the most popular argot term in your state?
1 "Cellphone"
The last person to use this sentence and his fresh Tupac, and he has been dead for 22 years. And for more words, you should probably advance your vocabulary,These are all argot terms that you are too old to use after 40.
2 "Overalls"
Whether you wear mean, Baggy or Botter, if you call your jeans "Dungareses", you simply date yourself.
3 "Rolodex"
If you still have one on your desk, you may want to consider upgrading to its modern counterpart: the smartphone. And for grunge enthusiasts out there, check20 SLAOT Terms of the 1990s person does not rely.
4 "Menu"
Today, usually what people use to play poker and other games. If you are stuck in the past, however, it seems to be a perfectly acceptable way to describe your hilarious friend.
5 "Hostess"
Do not be surprised if this Bell call passes unanswered an important duration if you always use this term to refer to the edge agents. And for more words that surely show your age, checkThe best slang conditions of the 1970s who are not cool today.
6 "Lousy"
Whether you use it to explain that someone or something is terrible or if something is terrible or say that it describe an abundance of something: "New York is ugly with hot trucks for dogs", for example You really make you really healthy than you are.
7 "Pictures"
Of course, the images are always one thing - after all, what else is Instagram? However, callingmovies "Photos" makes you automatically look older. And if you feel nostalgic,This is the most popular Slang word of you year Were Born.
8 "Sensational"
Practically nothing that took place on this side of the 1970s should be described as "Groovy" more.
9 "Galosos"
Galoshes and MacKintosh, by current standards, sound more to a pair of British detectives than an outfit that will keep you safe from the rain. And for more useful information delivered directly in your inbox,Sign up for our daily newsletter.
10 "Click"
When no one helps you on your frenetic search for the "Clicker", this could help you if you referred it by the "remote control" more modern instead.
11 "Chic"
While you can hear that used by your youngest friends joking when someone does something particularly sophisticated, referring to something "chic" to the ringtone that only pretends you older. Your grandmother can call a string of pearls an "elegant look", but you rarely hear billionaires rising from their "elegant" villas of the 17th century to the south of France. And, as many linguists will agree, there is virtually no word that makes you less sophisticated like this.
12 "Trousers"
You can ask to put your pants on one leg at a time, but for the vast majority of people who do not live in the UK, these clothes with two legs that attach to the size are called pants.
13 "Drug"
Whether you're talking about something cool or calling your friend who has already allowed smoking a pot to smoke a "Dope Fiend", using this word in virtually any context will immediately make you immediately than you.
14 "Stories"
Most people look atTV shows. Your grandmother always subscribes totelevision guide She can know what time are her stories.
15 "Scouring"
While "scrub" can be a well-known term for children who grew up TLC listening in the 1990s and 2000, using this term to describe a guy or a girl less than desirable, makes you simply sound as if You are struck in the past.
16 "Pocketbook"
Your handbag is where you keep your phone, your keys and your wallet. Your portfolio is where your grandmother keeps his checkbook and his hard candy handles.
17 "Sucked"
Unless you try to sound significantly older than you really do, it is high time you leave "to the peak" of your vocabulary. To people born over the last 50 years, it's "embrace"or" Connect ".
18 "Hottie"
There are a lot of good ways to describe someone you find attractive, but unless you try to make you feel bad, "Hottie" should not be one of them.
19 "World Wide Web"
Considering that most websites no longer need users to enter the prefix "www", describing something like living on the World Wide Web, it's more than a little useless.
20 "Stoked"
The skaters of the 90s of Go-to excited from all over the world, saying "Stoked" today, it is only a few more than saying to the people you are old enough to remember the first mandate of Reagan.
21 "Girl"
She can be a "big girl" to you, but preferred odds would prefer to be called woman instead.
22 "Nonsense"
While his homonym is still a popular lunch throughout the United States, this aged term has long been replaced by "false news".
23 "Breast"
Unless you cited ancient literature of centuries, you can simply achieve it like breasts, like all other born from McCarthy audiences.
24 "Queer"
While many members of the LGBTQIA community recovered this term, if you use it to refer to something unusual, do not be surprised when you get strange looks.
25 "Icebox"
The cooler was a very specific thing: a way to keep cold food with the help of the ice. Unless you were born at a time that pretended household electricity, it's probably time to start calling them what everyone does: refrigerators.
26 "WORK"
Of course, the Duggars always relate as such. However, unless you were trying to convince someone, you're really older as you know, "dating" tends to be the privileged term.
27 "Pantyhose"
Yes, pantyhose is always one thing, but these low toned flesh are certainly less common today than before 30 years ago. And no, despite what some people a certain age could insist, the term is not synonymous with "all that covers the legs but does not answer the need for the criteria of pants."
28 "Heavens"
The good thing about using this term when you are surprised by something? These sweet citizen sugars, it is obliged to open.
29 "Percolator"
WhileTwin peaks may have made the word "percolator" known by a brand new public, most people just call thesecoffeeys today.
30 "Vast"
Writers and actors onBroad city Can use this term as a way to refer to women. Most people should not.
31 "Fresh beans"
Reply to "cool beans" to a member of Gen z and enjoy the empty look and laugh that starts.
32 "Phat"
Although generally as a compliment, this slake of the 90s has not only the potential for offense, it certainly makes you seem that you have not updated your vocabulary for 20 years.
33 "TiVo"
Enjoy the puzzled look you get when you ask someone less than 40 years old to do something for you when you mean that DVR.
34 "FiddleTets"
Why swell of frustration when you could use this adorably aged expression instead?
35 "Video tape"
Although video tapes always exist, if you call to film something about your iPhone "video vastus", you are certainly not yourself seeing younger (or more technologically literate).
36 "Lover"
Paramore is a band. Paramay is pretty much the most obsolete way to describe someone you have encountered on Bumble.
37 "H * LLA"
Alternative northern California to the word "very", this word is h * lla vieté.
38 "FRELUQUET"
A word used only by grandmothers and cartoon characters.
39 "Go constantly"
It's not exactly like an exclusive dating no longer exists, but referring to a "constant race", has largely disappeared the path of dinosaurs.
40 "Boob Tube"
Ah, the good old tube tube. Or, as people born over the past 60 years, call it, television.
41 "Hip"
If you use this word to describe something in fashion or cool, it's probably not about you.
42 "Tickled"
While the word "happy" probably did not go out of style at any time, do not be surprised that people look at you as if you wear a killed skirt and bobby socks when you refer to yourself as "tickled " on something.
43 "Gnole"
There is no lack of inexpensive and low drinks in this world, but there is certainly a lack of people under the age of 65 who always called him "Hooch".
44 "Whoopee"
With so many words for the sex out there, why limit yourself to a word most often associated with a cushion that mimics the sound of flatulence?
45 "Greenhouse"
TIGHT: A descriptor for skinny jeans you have to sleep to enter tight, in your grandparents' day. What you could become after having a little too many martinis.
46 "Dress"
While the word is still used in some contexts, like the clearing of a priest, it seems adorabrably outdated when you use it to describe what is better known as the dress.
47 "Get out of"
Unfortunately, the act of not going out has not disappeared, but most people born on this side of the bicentenary, call it to cheating.
48 "Gas"
Carbon monoxide is a gas. Your grandmother's friend's friend, who also refers to a "gas", is just funny.
49 "Rubber"
No matter what you call a rubber boots, gerzer gums or condoms - using this term, it's even a young man as they are old enough to remember the Eisenhower Presidency.
50 "Guimbarde"
Refer to this drummer in your entry as a tacot and give you people on Craigslist even more prompted not to buy it.