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What's All The Hullabaloo?

4/22/2013

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Here's a list of words or phrases I don't hear that often.  When I do hear them, I chuckle (or cringe), raise my eyebrows, and think to myself, "Where did this come from?"

Go ahead.  Throw one into a conversation today and see what kind of reaction you get.  Then send me a coment about it.

1.        Same dif’

2.        Kit-n-caboodle

3.        Hullabaloo

4.        Forsooth

5.        You bet your sweet bippy

6.        Lollygagging (esp. lollygaggin’)

7.        Tom-foolery

8.        Prey-tell

9.        Topsy-turvy

10.     Peachy keen

11.     Jim-dandy

12.     Succotash

13.     Keep your eyes peeled

14.     Darn tootin’

15.     Cahoots

16.     Conniption

17.     Bedraggled

18.     Custard stand (think Dairy Queen) 

19.     Bevy

20.     Boondocks (esp. if “Boonies”)

21.     Skedaddle

22.     Standoffish

23.     Hootenanny

24.     Too-da-loo (as in "good-bye")

25.      Having "a bone to pick” with someone

26.     TELLING someone you have a bone to pick with them

27.     Behemoth

28.     Pesky

29.     Nano-anything (gram, meter, second)

30.     Yes indeedie

31.     Hodgepodge

32.     Gumption

33.     Fixin’s

34.     Triflin’

35.     Spelunking

36.     Bamboozled

37.     Yesteryear

38.     Whipper-snappers

39.     Saunter

40.     Quibble

41.     Antics

42.     Hubbub

43.     Vim and vigor

44.     Fist-a-cuffs

45.     “Skip to my lou”



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