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Can you match these outdated words to the correct meaning?
It's time to find out if you have a way with words!
Words are always changing and evolving, especially slang. Terms from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s can sound like a foreign language compared with today’s lingo!
Today, we’re testing your knowledge of old and outdated words that have all but disappeared. Once primetime vocabulary, these words have faded over time.
Can you tell a “flapdoodle” from “ballyhoo?” No, we’re not making this up! Give it your best shot, and drop a word from your childhood that’s no longer common in the comments below.
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What does "flapdoodle" mean?
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What does "ballyhoo" mean?
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What does "gas" mean? (No, it’s not the type of “gas” you put in your car!)
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What does "hotsy-totsy" mean?
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What does "gadzooks" mean?
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What does "lollygag" mean?
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What does "bloviate" mean?
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What does "kibosh" mean?
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What does "razzmatazz" mean?
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What does "apoplexy" mean?
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What does "hornswoggle" mean?
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What does "threads" mean?
Can you match these outdated words to the correct meaning?
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38 Comments
10/12
Not bad for these terms being before my time. I'm proud of myself.
Not bad for these terms being before my time. I'm proud of myself.
10/12 (9,10)
11 of 12, a few of them were guesses.
10/10. Well, ain’t I the bees knees!
Eight. Poppycock!
10/12 I guess I did some pretty good guessing.☺️
10/12
Hotsy totsy hahaha
Jumping Jehoshaphat.
Toody from Car 54 says that.😄 Tubi TV runs some of those episodes. They're pretty funny.
10/12
I thought Hornswaggle meant something else, and I never heard of #1.
I thought Hornswaggle meant something else, and I never heard of #1.
9/12, some of these I've never heard. Before I retired from my career job, a supervisor accused us of Lolly-gagging. Someone asked her what that meant, and we all started laughing. Supervisor never said that again.
Should have told the guy who asked that, that it meant eating a Lolly(of course then you'd have to explain what that is, one of those candy suckers with the hollow stick) and choking on it. That would really confuse them.
11/12 - haven’t heard most of these in years but I still use Kibosh - fits!!
I’ve never heard of flapdoddle or apoplexy.
Me either.🤔
11/12 ive only heard of 2 of these words
My other said the one slang word she could never make sense of was "zorch". She didn't know if it meant something was good or bad, but was sure it was one or the other of those.
10/12
10/12
Chuckling at "flapdoodle" 🤭
Chuckling at "flapdoodle" 🤭
12 of 12.
Words are my thing.
Words are my thing.
11/12 missed #7. No idea what that meant
10/12 I only knew 5 words