Seldom used or odd words; I'll start

[Texas Star]

I reckon it's use must be a geographical or cultural thing. It's use is quite common in my neck of the woods.

"Reckon" seems common in the state of Victoria, Australia, where Melbourne is the best known city.


I watch a TV series set in Victoria, and they often say "reckon."

 

[soFlaNative]

sidegoddillin- un level or not straight

Think you meant cattywampus there...

 

[Gamecock]

I have a ratty old dictionary, ©1963, that I keep around so that I can look up obsolete words, or the meaning of words back then.

Seems like there ought to be a word for 'old dictionary.'

 

[crazyphil]

In Heartbreak Ridge Clint Eastwood tells the Colonel the
alert is a "cluster something"?

 

[two-bit cowboy]

druthers

my choice or preference

If I had my druthers I wouldn't have to disarm to go in the post office.

 

[crazyphil]

Concerted is used often enough, but usually wrong. Many, including
talking heads on TV, who should know better, use concerted effort as if
it means something like a powerful or vigorous effort. In fact, concerted
effort is an effort by 2 or more. One person cannot make a concerted
effort.

 

[crazyphil]

Think you meant cattywampus there...

I haven't heard cattywampus for a long time. My Dad used
to use it often. When something was out of line, out of balance,
or out of something it was cattywampus.

 

[islamoradamark]

skinflint my dad used to say that every now and then usually referring to someone

 

[Cellar Hound]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - coal miners disease caused by breathing fine quartz dust. I hardly ever hear this word anymore.

 

[the ringo kid]

Reckon. My grandmother used it lot.

I use it a lot too-so did Josey Walessss...............

Sorry Chuck, I reckon that I couldnt resist:

 

[the ringo kid]

bloviate
verb
talk at length,especially in an inflated or empty way

"Bloviator"- one whose last names are: Rivera--and O'Reilly.

 

[LostintheOzone]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - coal miners disease caused by breathing fine quartz dust. I hardly ever hear this word anymore.

I wonder why?

 

[the ringo kid]

First cousin to a "Doohickey" isn't it?

It's also related to a: "Whatchamacallit?"

 

[the ringo kid]

In the Central Pennsylvania hills it's "you'uns". My wife comes from there.

"Youts" My Cousin Vinny.

 

[the ringo kid]

Chunk - meaning to throw.

You don't quit that, I'm fixin' ta chunk this dirt clod at cha.

~~~~~~OR~~~~~~~~~ Chuck..... Chuck a grenade at them Germans-=-etc/

 

[the ringo kid]

Gumption. No one has it and no one uses it anymore.

I do sometimes--and I aint yet 50.

 

[the ringo kid]

Two words that haven't been heard in Washington D.C. for many years:
Cooperation
Collaboration

Im keeping mum on this one to avoid any possible future outcomes.

 

[the ringo kid]

Skedaddle: Get away from here, fast!
My Mom was from Oregon and used this a lot.
Steve W

I just tell em to: GIT!!!!!!!!!!when I dont want some annoying pest near me.

 

[the ringo kid]

I have a ratty old dictionary, ©1963, that I keep around so that I can look up obsolete words, or the meaning of words back then.

Seems like there ought to be a word for 'old dictionary.'

They do--" Smart Antique"--well actually-dos words.

 

[pharmer]

Solipsistic: "The belief that the person holding the belief is the only real thing in the universe. All other persons and things are merely ornaments or impediments to his happiness." That about sums up most folks you meet these days. Joe