Remember these words?

[Gliderman8]

As is "Rigmarole". But I've always heard it as: "rigamarole". An extra syllable. Several others on the list are a bit differently spelled than I've heard them pronounced, too.

And I've even used a few of 'em in posts here. Guess that makes me an Ancient, huh?

That might be "Fuddy Duddy"

 

[Roger]

I use many, though I agree they do have a British feel, unlike dagnabbit, for example. Though, being a Ancient Brit, maybe that's not so surprising.

 

[Madflyer]

The ones I at least used seemed to have little to do with what I was doing it was to not have young ones repeating to the wife. I would add one; HAND SHOES as in gloves. Madflyer

 

[Boink]

I like "gadzooks."

 

[Banjo]

I will say I have never once said "Skewwiff".

Same. I know/ have used all the others on this list, or at least close variations of them, but I have never heard skewwiff.

 

[Roger]

I don't think I'd write it like that, more like skew-whiff. Pretty common in England, means askew, as "your hat is on skew-whiff".

 

[Boink]

Speaking of England (and car work), I rather like the word "bodge."

 

[bobhustead]

Speaking of England (and car work), I rather like the word "bodge."

And sometimes, Boink, I seem to rather like the practice.
Bob

 

[Boink]

LOLOL You have no idea how difficult it was to get that license-plate in Oregon! Always draws a wink-wink-nudge-nudge smile. The word is on a list of banned plates here... but I appealed by telling them that my then 13 year old son had a Calvin & Hobbes books "Scientific Progress Goes Boink." Of course in the UK the word is "bonk." When the kids were little, in our house the word meant "to happen suddenly or unexpectedly."
I've had the plate since the 1990s and on one transfer to the 1973 Mini, they tried to take it away from me... but, again, I appealed and won. When it was finally transferred to the Bugeye they just smiled at the DMV.

 

[DavidApp]

Speaking of England (and car work), I rather like the word "bodge."

A Bodger is or was a woodturner who worked with green wood. It also referred to someone who did shoddy work or bodged it. Don't have him work on your car he will bodge it.

David

 

[Bitchun Bob]

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That is where I got the nickname "Bitchuun". where I grew up it meant something good. Not a chronic complainer.

 

[Bitchun Bob]

A Bodger is or was a woodturner who worked with green wood. It also referred to someone who did shoddy work or bodged it. Don't have him work on your car he will bodge it.

David Your right about a Bodger ; a person that works at turning or carving wood. But someone that does shoddy work or incorrectly. " Botched the job" I think you botched that one.

 

[Bitchun Bob]

That is where I got the nickname "Bitchuun". where I grew up it meant something good. Not a chronic complainer.

Like that's Bitchuun. I like to spell it using double U's to accent the fact; instead of "in", so as to keep the vulgarity out of it.

 

[mikephillips]

How about Buddy Ebsen, "whee doggy"