Sweet replacement for Cool 1

[CrystalStart]

I think "cool" getting replaced by "sweet" or so I've heard.

Anything that is going on that is not bad is "sweet"!!!
pronounced with a skweaky voice.

It use to be "grand" and "super", what else it use to be?

It use to irritate me but recently I wrote "Sweet!" and smiled at myself. Is this what it means "it grows on you?

 

[gizmo1973]

I think you can thank the series South Park for your "sweet" and has such has been around for some time.
Whether it is now seen as a replacement I'm not sure as I think (in the U.K. at least) "sweet" has already been and gone (thankfully)

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[columb]

My sixteen year old son certainly uses 'sweet'. If you're my age you probably remember 'fab' and 'gear'

Columb Healy

 

[KenCunningham]

Sweet certainly had a place in the London vernacular when lived there between 1991 and 1994. As I recall it often had something to do with a plan coming together when the chances of it doing so were remote or at least marginal. Jamie Oliver with his estuary English seems to have given it a new lease of life more recently. Columb, Dadio - in what sense 'gear'? I'm assuming clothing though it does have somewhat more sinister (no offence to left-handers and all that) connotations.

 

[ToniL]

How 'bout "groovy"? Ya remember that?

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Toni L.

 

[RCorrigan]

Mainstream usage Sweet

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[CrystalStart]

I do understand it is an old news but it is coming back !!!

 

[SkipVought]

Is KEWEL in vogue?

I'm an ol' fart, so I'm not up on the latest lingo.

Skip,

_{[red]Be advised:[/red] The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac, lays awake all night wondering...
"Is there really a DOG?"}

 

[wuneyej]

I think "cool" is like blue jeans; will always be in style.

"sweet" as a substitute seems it's on its way out. Though, I will catch myself saying something like "That's a sweet ride" when I see a car I wish was mine, and I want to sound like a punk.

I don't know about "groovy", but I do hear a lot of people using "funky".

Anyone remember "decent" from, oh, the late 70's? I can barely remember my brother using it in place of "cool" at times.

 

[craigsboyd]

My younger brother (16 years younger) used "leet!" sometime back. When interrogated he said it was short for "elite" and is spoken mostly by hardcore gamers when speaking of something that is super-cool or shows a great deal of expertise. "Leet" and "Newb" have replaced "Hip" and "Square"?

Then there's always:
"Rad", "Tubular", "Awesome", "Phat", "Excellent", "Dope", "Bad Ass", "Gnarly", "Slick", "Nifty", "Neat-o", "Bitchin", "Rocks", "Singular", "Wondrous", "Wonderful", "Astounding", "Straight", "Tops", "Preeminent", "Sick", "Righteous", "Fantastic", "Marvelous", "The Greatest", "Slammin", "Dandy", "Super", "Groovy", "Uber-cool", "Unreal", "Diggity Dank", "Beyond Belief", "Stupendous", "Money", "Kickass", "Crump", "Cool Beans", "Terrific", "Two Thumbs Up", "Intoxicating", "Man!", "Beast", "Marvelous", "Astonishing", "Amazing", "Scrumptious", "Mean", "Hype", "Fabulous", "Superb", "Fresh", "Primo", "Tight", "Fine", "Kickin", "Decent", "Grand", "Tits", "Glorious", "Divine", "Fabulous", "Sensational", "Hot", "Splendid", "Keen", "Nifty", "Dandy", "Ripping", "Super", "Marvelous", "Swell", "Tremendous", "Dreamy", "Exceptional", "Splendid", "Beautiful", "Niiiiice!", "Mint", "Stellar", "Hot", "Tricked", "Killer", "Choice", "Clean", "Fly", "Cherry", "Alvo", "The Bomb", "Butter", "Far Out", "Hella Cool", "Remarkable", "Extraordinary", "Horrorshow", "Ill", "Jiggy", "Kosher", "Copasetic", "Magnificent", "Off The Hook", "Spiffy", "Pimp", "Ruley", "Wicked", "Dynamite", "Out of Sight"

I guess I'll just stick with plain old "cool".

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[tsdragon]

Don't forget "boss". That was popular when I was in high school.



Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[SkipVought]

And....

you can ALWAYS modify any of those way cool synonyms with...

FRICKIN whatever!

Skip,

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"Is there really a DOG?"}

 

[jsteph]

...and, from the closing scene's of Office Space:
F***ing A.
--J

 

[SkipVought]

....uuuhhhhhhh, yeaaaaaaa, uuuhhhhhhhh

about those.....

Skip,

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[CrystalStart]

SkipV, tears rolling downn my face, plus it is friggin' Friday!

 

[ESquared]

craigsboyd,

That was a lot of quote marks. My eyes hurt! Did you have to put those in there?

Anyway, a nice list. I'd never before heard of Alvo, Beast, Butter, Crump, Diggity Dank, Fly, Horrorshow, Money, Off The Hook, or Tits to mean cool.

E²

P.S. Dandy, Fabulous, Hot, Nifty, Splendid, and Super are listed twice. And Marvelous three times. And I learned copasetic as an accepted variant of copacetic.

 

[craigsboyd]

Esquared,

Your eyes may hurt but you have the best eyes in the bunch. As I was typing them in it became increasingly difficult to remember if I had used one before or not, at first I was searching back through them and then I said to heck with it as the time involved was more than I had planned on anyways. The quotes were a really bad idea and by the end I was just too lazy to cut and paste the whole thing somewhere and remove them. Your eyes have my sincerest apologies.

PS I see you were trying to get me on the spelling of copasetic. Whew! <relief>

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