Based on one of the first blogs I ever wrote. Nothing much has changed.
Archaic words: Does anyone still say, “Here’s mud in your eye?” It seems to be a toast or salute. Mud has been in my eye, and it is to be avoided at all costs. Another passé phrase that doesn’t get used anymore, “I’ve been hornswoggled!” Does anyone know how one is swoggled, and how a horn is used to swoggle someone? It certainly sounds painful! Ask a young child what “whippersnapper, buggy whip, crooner, pitcher pump, celluloid, burlap, tin Lizzy, Victrola, ear trumpet, shoe horn, firebrand,... Sign in to see full entry.