What Did You Say?

Posted on 28/08/2024 by Ol' Big Jim

Don’t you just love words? Words can take us on journeys and adventures. They can make us hysterical with laughter or make us cry. When we’re at a loss for words, or when there’s just no apt describer, we sometimes make one up. Often, it’s flash in the pan and gone, but others ‘stick’ and we hear other folks using them. Here’s a list of some of my favorites that have stood the test of time.

Bamboozled

Brouhaha

Canoodle

Cattywampus

Codswallop

Dingleberry

Discombobulated

Doohickey

Flabbergasted

Flibbertigibbet

Flummoxed

Gobsmacked

Kerfuffle

Lollygag

Malarkey

Nincompoop

Persnickety

Poppycock

Pumpernickel

Shenanigans

Skedaddle

Tenterhooks

Thingamajig

Whatchamacallit

Whatnot

Whatsit

Whippersnapper

What are some of your favorite words? How and when do you use them and how do your friends and family receive them? Share some of them with us.

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About Ol' Big Jim

Jim L Wright has been a storekeeper, an embalmer, a hospital orderly, and a pathology medical coder, and through it all, a teller of tall tales. Many of his stories, like his first book, New Yesterdays, are set in his hometown of Piedmont, Alabama. For seven years he lived in the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Amman, Jordan where he spent his time trying to visit every one of the thousands of Ammani coffee shops and scribbling in his ever-present notebook. These days he and his husband, Zeek, live in a cozy little house in Leeds, Alabama. He’s still scribbling in his notebooks when he isn’t gardening or refinishing a lovely bit of furniture. His book, New Yesterdays, can be found at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble.
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1 Response to What Did You Say?

  1. T. W. Dittmer's avatar T. W. Dittmer says:
    29/08/2024 at 07:53

    Good one, Jim. Slang fills the mouth when the mind is drawing blanks.

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