What Are Some Old Timey Words?

15 Silly Old-Timey Words You Need To Start Using Again

  • Flapdoodle: foolish words. ...
  • Claptrap: pretentious nonsense. ...
  • Tommyrot: utter foolishness or nonsense. ...
  • Fiddle-faddle: nonsense (often used as an interjection) ...
  • Monkeyshine: mischievous or playful activity; a prank.

What words were used in the 1800s?

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  • Damfino.
  • Podsnappery.
  • Bricky.
  • Chuckaboo.
  • Ruffles.
  • Lush.
  • Mafficking.
  • Caper.

What is the Old English word for the?

Article. The and that are common developments from the same Old English system. Old English had a definite article se (in the masculine gender), sēo (feminine), and þæt (neuter). In Middle English, these had all merged into þe, the ancestor of the Modern English word the.
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