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I like the word schmaltz - I don`t think it`s quite onomatopoeic but you can tell instantly what it means!

Sorry to lower the tone (again) but there was a beer called `Dog`s ****ocks`- it was actually a decent ale - it caused some amusement, especially if the barperson pretended to be hard of hearing and asked unwary customers to shout a bit louder when ordering!

I often use the word "schmaltz"; it's common in the US.
My grandmother used "pooned" for drunk. I never heard anyone else use it and it always cracked me up. I wondered whether it was a shortened form of harpooned but I don't think it was. I just looked it up online and "poon" is given as "to dress suggestively".

Aristo, I concur, to me 'schmaltz' is in common usage and none the worse for that.

I love 'pooned', would love to know how she got to that!

Tyke maybe we could meet up at the fish & chip shop in Nottinghamshire that's just been voted best in the UK.

Its name?

"The Cod's Scallops"

Brilliant!

Language continues to evolve and many words once commonly used have disappeared

Slang terms seem to fall victim at an even faster rate

The consumption of alcohol, and other 'vices' have provided many of our colourful words and terms, over the years

"Shickered" is a word that is not heard these days, but was regularly used by my father, in my formative(??) years

It means 'to be be greatly affected by alcohol'; and, like much of our other 'slanguage', came to English from the Yiddish

A chronological listing of synonyms for the word intoxicated would be an interesting challenge . . .


Perhaps one rainy afternoon, over a beer

kt: It was especially funny because she used it so censuringly. She once told me that she had never tasted wine because she was afraid she might like it.

I was in Perthshire area and couldn't resist trying a pint of Thrappledouser ale made by Inveralmond Brewery.

Hannah, Aristo, StevieG It's interesting how this conversation leans in towards the bibulous!

Hannah it started as a joke but actually Roger's Profanisaurus is rather a jolly companion to Partridge's dictionary of slang.

I love to hear Cockney rhyming slang - I watched programs like the `Sweeney`just for the dialogue! `arris is one of my favourite words, it has several stages before you reach its meaning.
I think rhyming slang is used pretty much all over the UK now.

I also enjoyed the Barry Mckenzie adventures in Private Eye (Barry Humphries & Peter Cook) ... I think there was a movie too ... mainly for the comical language!

Tyke I fondly remember Barry Mackenzie - ‘he’ spawned an interest in Australian slang, a rich field!

“As dry as a nun’s nazi” - that was one of his...

Rhyming slang, ‘orchestra’ is a nice one!