Worn-out words

     Mental floss  magazine recently listed ten ancient words that have gone the way of the unfortunate Dodo:

Jangleress:  female jangler, someone who chatters or tells stories

Bake-meat:  a pie

Corrumpable:  corruptible

Bear:  a pillow

Yolden:  submissive

Bedaff:  to make a fool of

Dulcarnon:  at wit’s end

Fouldre:  a lightning bolt

Englute:  to close with glue

Scorkle:  to scorch

     Which brings to mind a lot of words that were around when I was young but that haven’t survived into this century.  A few:

Ankle-biter:  child (could apply to my cat, Havoc)

Clanked:  rejected (it sounds  like rejected)

Cooties:  imaginary multi-legged infesters

Cranked:  excellent

Deuce:  1932 Ford (a model once often hot-rodded)

Doozy:  something or somebody unique or outstanding

Flat-top:  short square-edged haircut

Flip-top:  convertible

Floozy:  a street walker; a somewhat less-offensive term was floogie

Floy-floy:  a venereal disease, as in a top hit song of the year I was born called “Flat Foot

                   Floogie with the Floy-Floy”

Flim-flam:  a con game (think Congress)

Frail:  broke (think taxpayer)

Gringles:  worries (it sounds  like worries)

New-fangled:  something new but not necessarily good for us (like cell phones)

Raunchy:  gross

Scooch or slodge:  a friend

Slurg:  milkshake

Spaz:  klutz

Tubesteak:  hot dog

Yoot:  kid (clipped youth)

Zorros:  jitters

     What words will they be perplexing lexicographers with a century from now?

Phil