View Full Version : The Power of Words, One I Hardly Hear Today


Caroline13
04-19-2022, 01:18 PM
Couth: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/couth

I have not heard this word in years and I woke up this morning thinking about this word.

Any of you members hear it? Use it? Live it?

Back in the "ole" dinosaur days, we used couth and uncouth a lot.

Caroline13
04-29-2022, 01:47 PM
No one here has a word or more that they use to describe something...

I woke up thinking about the word cantankerous and the older I've gotten the more I am feeling this, never did in my life but now I don't have to answer to any boss or anyone for that matter. Just to myself and how it makes me feel.

Similar:
bad-tempered
irascible
irritable
grumpy
grouchy
crotchety
tetchy
testy
crusty
curmudgeonly
ill-tempered
ill-natured
ill-humored
peevish
cross
fractious
disagreeable
pettish
crabbed
crabby
waspish
prickly
peppery
touchy
scratchy
splenetic
shrewish
short-tempered
hot-tempered
quick-tempered
dyspeptic
choleric
bilious
liverish
cross-grained
argumentative
quarrelsome
uncooperative
contrary
perverse
difficult
awkward
as cross as two sticks
snappish
snappy
chippy
on a short fuse
short-fused
shirty
stroppy
narky
ratty
eggy
like a bear with a sore head
cranky
ornery
peckish


Just know too that there are many out there who are already with these traits..

GentlemanJim
04-29-2022, 05:56 PM
I've heard the word "uncouth" used a time or two. https://i.imgur.com/xlPQlYH.gif

Caroline13
05-16-2022, 05:33 PM
Just heard a word from a favorite radio guy that I had not heard in mega years, and mom used to use it a lot when I was growing up: Conniption Fit.

Means: Anger or panic expressed verbally loudly and with overt bodily gestures. Says the history of it comes from SouthEast.

Dude111
05-30-2026, 10:49 PM
Couth: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/couth

I have not heard this word in years and I woke up this morning thinking about this word. Wow I havent ever heard it!!

No one has used it when I was present...


Strange!!