Last Updated on November 27, 2020
5Floppy disk
The need for floppy disks faded away as computers stopped manufacturing computers with built-in floppy disc drivers. Now, computers do not need those square floppy disks to store files.
So, next time you are asking your colleague to save something for you on the computer, make sure you don’t use the word disk as you will definitely sound like a weirdo!
6Stewardess
The stewardess was used in the past to refer to the woman that attends to her passengers, say a flight attendant.
But along the years, this word took on a negative connotation as it was believed to put more emphasis on the way the woman looked instead of what she does. Luckily this term is no longer used and women who do this kind of job is called a ‘’flight attendant’’.
7Grody
Words like grody were used to describe a person who is inferior in character or a thing inferior in quality. It is, in fact, a synonym for the word ‘’gross’’ or ‘’revolting’’. So, yes next time you want to comment on something, make sure you are using understandable words!
8Icebox
In the past when people had to survive without refrigerators, they used to preserve the quality of their foods by placing them in iceboxes. The latter iceboxes were kind of metal or wood boxes that used to hold large blocks of ice.
However, once refrigerators come to existence and become more common in households, the word became useless. Eventually, no one used it since then!
9Dungarees
It might be really surprising for some of you to know that dungarees are what we call today ‘’jeans’’! Oh, yes this word comes from a cheap type of cloth that used to be imported at that time from Dongari Kilda, India.
Tell Bruce Campbell or any fans of Ash vs Evil Dead that Groovy is out of fashion and they’ll tell you you’re an idiot.
Most of these words went out of date 50 years ago. But I did recently use the word “whippersnapper”. I tied up my wife and took a riding crop. I said I was gonna whip ‘er snapper!
I didn’t use the word “groovy” even when it was groovy to say it. I thought it sounded stupid then until you were talking about records. Back then, all records were groovy.