Favorite old fashioned words
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Anonymous
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I am from a sparsely populated state in the Midwest ...
reckon. I reckon we'll be late again, etc. |
Anonymous
I love pantywaist! My southern relatives used to call us that all the time. I'm not sure exactly what it means but I know they meant to imply we were being wimps about something or other. |
Anonymous
| How about "fixin" as in I'm fixin to go the store, do you need anything? |
Anonymous
"champing at the bit" although I always said "chomping at the bit" 
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Anonymous
| I just told my DS not to get his "panties in a twist" or "knickers in knot" and he just looked at me like what? |
Anonymous
| fiddlesticks |
Anonymous
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goose eggs
gang busters I bet you dollars to doughnuts, that... Blinded in one eye and can't see out the other. |
Anonymous
| I say "golly gee willickers," "Mother Mary preserve us," "darn it to heck" and "blasphemy!" a lot... But it's for kicks. I can throw around my fair share of mother effers, too. |
Anonymous
I love this, I said it the other day on a whim and got weird looks. |
Anonymous
| Just heard from the crotchety old general on the Daily Show... Shinola. I really need to work that into my conversation. |
Anonymous
| Mary Mother of God, ( what is the matter with you??) |
Anonymous
| huzzah! |
Anonymous
and fiddle-dee-dee |
Anonymous
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Perchance
Alas And it would be fun to say criminetly (sp?) every now and then. |
Anonymous
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1:18 It's "criminy" (or "crimeny," if you're really wild, which you probably are)
jinkies folderol |