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"

Woman Using Smartphone Voice Assistant

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"

ripped denim jeans
Refuge

Whether you wear mean, Baggy or Botter, if you call your jeans "Dungareses", you simply date yourself.

3
"Rolodex"

rolodex
Refuge

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"

laughter at lunch
Refuge

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"

Flight attendant
Refuge

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"

sad woman
Refuge

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"

hobbies for your 40s
Refuge

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"

older couple dancing
Refuge

Practically nothing that took place on this side of the 1970s should be described as "Groovy" more.

9
"Galosos"

rain boots in a puddle
Refuge

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"

Remote Control Home Cleaning
Refuge

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"

man in a fancy suit with a woman in a fancy cocktail dress
Refuge

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"

Man wearing pants slacks
Refuge

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"

60s slang no one uses, Worst Dating Phrases
Refuge

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"

old tv from the 1980s, 1984 facts
Refuge

Most people look atTV shows. Your grandmother always subscribes totelevision guide She can know what time are her stories.

15
"Scouring"

bad date
Refuge

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"

Stylish woman holding purse
Refuge

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"

Couple Flirting in Restaurant
Refuge

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"

smiling woman
Refuge

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"

older black woman on her office computer at night
exit

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"

young straight black couple holding surfboards outside van
Shutterstock / Wavebreakmedia

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"

A smiling young woman drinking coffee while looking out the window.
exit

She can be a "big girl" to you, but preferred odds would prefer to be called woman instead.

22
"Nonsense"

man Reading Bad News in Paper Letter Document, Troubled With Domestic Bills, Concerned About Bankruptcy Debt Money Problems. Tensed Senior Man Checking the Bills at Home While Using Laptop
exit

While his homonym is still a popular lunch throughout the United States, this aged term has long been replaced by "false news".

23
"Breast"

big boobs
Refuge

Unless you cited ancient literature of centuries, you can simply achieve it like breasts, like all other born from McCarthy audiences.

24
"Queer"

never say this at work
Refuge

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"

hilarious words
Refuge

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"

couple in love
Refuge

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"

stockings section of store
Refuge

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"

asian woman shock surprise
Refuge

The good thing about using this term when you are surprised by something? These sweet citizen sugars, it is obliged to open.

29
"Percolator"

Cup of Coffee
Refuge

WhileTwin peaks may have made the word "percolator" known by a brand new public, most people just call thesecoffeeys today.

30
"Vast"

woman at computer Life Easier
Refuge

Writers and actors onBroad city Can use this term as a way to refer to women. Most people should not.

31
"Fresh beans"

young woman giving thumbs up
Refuge

Reply to "cool beans" to a member of Gen z and enjoy the empty look and laugh that starts.

32
"Phat"

Group of friends on beach
Refuge

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"

watching television
Refuge

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"

sad man
Refuge

Why swell of frustration when you could use this adorably aged expression instead?

35
"Video tape"

Cassette tape
Refuge

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"

A young heterosexual couple hugging on the beach at sunset.
exit

Paramore is a band. Paramay is pretty much the most obsolete way to describe someone you have encountered on Bumble.

37
"H * LLA"

words that people over 30 won't get
Refuge

Alternative northern California to the word "very", this word is h * lla vieté.

38
"FRELUQUET"

grandparents with grandkids
Refuge

A word used only by grandmothers and cartoon characters.

39
"Go constantly"

older men smiling
Refuge

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"

Retro style old television from 1950, 1960 and 1970s. Vintage tone instagram style filtered photo - Image
Refuge

Ah, the good old tube tube. Or, as people born over the past 60 years, call it, television.

41
"Hip"

a hipster man wearing flannel and biking
Refuge

If you use this word to describe something in fashion or cool, it's probably not about you.

42
"Tickled"

laughter at lunch
Refuge

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"

Alcohol in Plastic Bottles, 40s
Refuge

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"

Couple Talking Before Sex BDSM
Refuge

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"

Refuge

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"

body image woman in black dress
Refuge

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"

couple arguing on couch
Refuge

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"

Refuge

Carbon monoxide is a gas. Your grandmother's friend's friend, who also refers to a "gas", is just funny.

49
"Rubber"

condoms
Refuge

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"

boy driving car
Refuge

Refer to this drummer in your entry as a tacot and give you people on Craigslist even more prompted not to buy it.


Categories: Culture
Tags: aging / Slang
By: aileen
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