I was having a conversation with my friend Luke the other day about a past post that I had written about women who don’t shave underneath their armpits, and from there we started conversing about shaving private parts. Luke said “I can’t stand when a women doesn’t shave her coochie”. I looked at him and starting laughing uncontrollably and said “I haven’t heard anyone say coochie in forever”(I think I‘m spelling that right). He started laughing too, and said “I should bring that word back," and that segwayed into a conversation about words or phrases that people didn’t really use anymore that could use a serious comeback.
Some of these I still say myself, and I think you’ll find that you and your friends may still use some of them as well.
Rad: I was reading on this site about the word rad, more specifically, that people on the West Coast primarily still use the word. I thought that was really interesting, because I still use the word and I live in Seattle. What I also read was that this word was made very popular in the 90’s by the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Totally rad in my opinion!
Fly: I personally use to love this word. Everything was fly. Someone’s jacket, someone’s shoes, or hair. I am originally from Brooklyn, New York and in the mid 90’s this was my go to word about something/or someone that we really liked.
Wack: This was used a lot in the early 90’s and I actually still use the word from time to time, because everybody knows what this means, even if they don't use it. And if I really think something is just plain dumb and stupid and I don’t want to say “What the hell-that’s just stupid”. I’ll just say “That’s wack” or “he/she. Is wack.”
Fresh: One of my favorite words from the 80’s. My friends and I in elementary school would say “That new song that was on the radio was fresh” or “Those new Nike’s are fresh."
Fugly: I love this one by far. At my high school this was thrown out a lot! “F*cking” + “Ugly“=“Fugly” C’mon you remember!
Boss: This one was my friend Luke’s idea. I guess they used this one a lot in the Midwest (he’s from Milwaukee). It basically means superior or excellent. “That 69 Chevy is totally boss.”
What words do you have mind that are not listed that you’d like to see make a comeback?
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Groovy?
LOL I can't think of one.
Whack, fugly & boss, are still widely used today. But yeah, I'd raise a brow if I heard someone saying "man that is rad".
It be funny if I heard someone calling another a "jive turkey".
@Werewolf - lol
Fugly is still used. Maybe 'Mean Girls' brought it back?! These words are totally rad.
I totally still use those words, dude.
Tubular.
LOL I still use Coochie and Fugly a lot. They are just better sounding.
i live in california, I hear "rad" a lot.
I used the word "rad" today.
I also say "cool beans" and I wish more people still said that.
in addition to your 'stellar' list... i still use as many of these as a i can, in the same sentence... wait...
is it really 2001?
gnarly, dude... shredding... bitchin' (camaro)... way... excellent... pinhead... nimrod... bueller, bueller (is anyone 'home')... tripendicular... well alright (spicoli) & all righty then (ace ventura)... shaggin' (if your from the southeast coastal areas, that's actually a dance)... bangin'... flux capacitor...
spooge (my personal favorite)...
i'm pickin' up what your puttin' down...
wow, my daughter just told me it's 2011... what the hell? niiiiiicccccceeee... list.
i just saw the word f*ck and 'boink' popped into my head... another fine word that lived too short a life...
"Wack" is the only one of these words that I don't hear in regular usage...
And I would like to add, "trip the light fantastic."
@thisiswhereItellyoueverything@xanga - i wish people said cool beans too lmao
psyche was my favorite word ever haha
I heart all of these still, except for "fresh."
You forgot phat. Then again, some people use it.
Swell
I use 'rad' a lot.
I'm Columbian, I don't use those kind of slang.
I still say the slang words from the 80's and 90's much more then the words used today. I say "totally" and "dude" a lot. But I also use old man words too for some reason...
I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post.
Have you never heard the phrase "Like a Boss?" everyone says it, few can actually make it sound epic. xD I say rad, fugly, wack and awesome. I'm in the attempt to bring back "mint" (from the 70s).
I feel like I'm in the 90s hearing all these words lol
@KickDrumHeart@datingish - People use fugly 'cause it's so fetch.
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"Coochie?" Who is he? Luke from 2 Live Crew? Fugly is still around and I hear people say wack sometimes. I'm gonna start saying boss. I hate when people say, "Sick." It annoys the crap out of me.