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FadedMullet

(326 posts) Tue Jun 3, 2025, 02:29 PM Jun 3

Words that were first used in the year you were born. Just found this on the intertoobs from Merrian-Webster's..... [View all]

......website. My birth year, 1947, introduced apartheid, afterburner, bikini, bank card, counterculture, fair trade, flight attendant, flying saucer, hydrogen bomb, kibbutznik, methadone, Negroni, party-pooper, role-model, red carpet, swim fin, spinal tap (not the band) and strip search. Also new that year was "flop sweat" which does surprise me.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1947

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Words that were first used in the year you were born. Just found this on the intertoobs from Merrian-Webster's..... [View all] FadedMullet Jun 3 OP

Kinda cool odins folly Jun 3 #1

Gonna be hard to beat this year's... 3825-87867 Jun 3 #2

Won't say which year is mine, but I'm a bit surprised -- maybe sad -- that "desegregate" was not coined earlier. Silent Type Jun 3 #3

A few of mine: LudwigPastorius Jun 3 #4

Wow, some of my year words have defined my life!! Coventina Jun 3 #5

a few from my birth year: surrealAmerican Jun 3 #6

Words used the DAY I was born True Dough Jun 3 #7

LOL! Coventina Jun 3 #8

Well, you did come with a great sense of humor, so there's that. FadedMullet Jun 3 #9

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