I used rigamarole in an email to a colleague today. And I regularly use kerfuffle.
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I don't personally think it's wierd, but my partner told me I sounded like an old for using the word "flummoxed"
"an" old?
My parents emigrated from Aus/NZ just before I was born, so I inherited a bunch of weird down-under, outdated vocabulary.
"What are you fossicking around in the pantry for?" "Did you find a few skerrigs of chocolate?" "I need to use the dunny." "That guy in car dealership was apoplectic."
Lots of other turns of phrase, but - with the possible exception of "dunny" are legit words.
EDIT: OK. A few others, I still use 'blasted' as an adjective. If my kids do something ridiculous, "Jesus wept, child," sometimes comes out of my mouth. Then a bunch of, "running around like a sprayed blowfly," or, "wandering around like a lost soul."
I'm a cultural Kiwi and don't recognize half of these.
In the case of dunny, I was trained on calling it the loo.
Yesterday I learned the word Steez from my son in high school.
Still not completely sure what it means, but I believe it's something between a dork and a douche.
I've heard steeze in snowboard / Park rat culture. Though it's a bit dated it means like, style/vibe/look
So back in the 90s "steez" was your overall style. Like "this dude's steez is off the chain." But it's not just style but also hutzpha, so "check this steez yo, fresh shells smoking a blunt on the street"
Idk what it means today but this old head used to have steez but then I got old and now I just sneeze rimshot I'll be here all night folks.
Long post just to ask, is that still what it means?
Edit: forgot a part
I’ll be here all night folks.
In your bed, snoring, right?
Punchline
Because you are old
Nothing good happens after 8pm anyways
I think it does still mean that, but, not in a good way.
The 90s celebrated Steez (which I personally never heard of back then) then it's definition today is essentially "The 90s called and they want their style back."
Definitely explains why he had to borrow some of my clothes for it. 🤦🏻♂️
Ha, isn't that how it always goes? Like dope, if my dad called me a dope it was because I was being stupid. If I called you dope it was because you were cool.
Last week a coworker described a restaurant as being "kitty-corner" from our office. Took me forever to figure out what they meant
I occasionally hear "catty-corner" too.
I use the phrase "wide-awake nightmare" kind of a lot.
At least I know where I picked it up from, the Screaming Skull episode of MST3k.
Dropped a Tom Swifty on my wife... the other day.
"They want me to check in at the hospital..."
"She said admittedly."
I got "the look".
Shit of a beast
Peripatetic = walking person
No fair if you're a nurse
One of my new favorites when trying to decide if something is worth doing - “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”
That’s gotta be very old
jimmanuel centennial carter