More linguistic questions

[chicken]

So I thought of another typical word my mother loved to use a lot -- skedaddle. I now realize that not everyone has heard this word, and some people laugh at me when I say it.

The other thing I like about it is that it goes nicely with that word made so famous by Oz in BtVS, namely, "mosey". (For a fascinating article about the contradictory meanings of this, see the "Slow down faster" section of this article.)

Mosey! Skedaddle!

I just love words.

So do other people use "skedaddle"?

And what about vamoose? That was another of her favorites.

Comments

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Don't they have a certain ring to them?

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

They certainly do! Do you know fustigate? That's a good one. I love that one. Let's skedaddle is sometimes the only way you can say, "Let's get going now." Vamoose and mosey are just brilliant.

I loved it when Oz used mosey. He also had the degrees of parties. A gathering, a shindig, and a hooten nanny? I don't even know how two spell that last one. I think a hooten nanny would be the craziest.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

I don't know fustigate. Seems brutal!

Hootenanny is one word. :-)

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

Hee. I had no idea if I was even approximating the spelling. I just tried to spell in phonetically. Hee. Such a fun word.

If I'm remembering correctly, fustigate means to gripe, complain, or fuss about something. I never use it, but I think it's a fun funny word.