goshbustified

[prettygoodword]

How about a week of colorful 19th century Americanisms? Some of them are even still in use -- though I've never actually seen this one outside of lists of colorful 19th century Americanisms:


goshbustified (gosh-BUH-sti-faid) - adj., pleased and gratified.


With a strong connotation of being excessively so. This seems to have been more in use in the southeastern U.S. than elsewhere, and was still current as of the Civil War.

---L.

Comments

[flwyd]

I first read this as "ghostbustified" (like what happens when you get trapped by Peter Venkman) and was surprised that "ghost busters" was a 19th-century term :-)

[prettygoodword]

That's ... rather different.