It’s like cool has unofficially been accepted by multiple generations to be the template by which all other trendy words are cut from.
It’s like cool has unofficially been accepted by multiple generations to be the template by which all other trendy words are cut from.
Capital -> Dandy -> Swell -> Keen -> Groovy -> Rad -> Slayed (although I’d have picked Bussin’).
I wish I knew more going back even into the nineteenth century. I recently read the Arsene Lupin books (1905), and although that’s French translated to British English, I found the slang charming. Although I think cool was only used in regards to someone being calm and controlled…
Slayed is used a verb, it’s not used as an adjective.
I thought about using bussin’, but I thought that was only for food.
It’s for describing the quality of bussy.
have you read much P. G. Wodehouse? It took me a chapter or two for my brain to adjust to the nineteenth century literature but that guy turns a phrase like nobody else. uses the same plot a lot, but it doesn’t matter because you always like the way he says it.