Timeline for What's a modern term for sucker or sap?
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| 7 hours ago | history | became hot network question | |||
| 9 hours ago | answer | added | Tinfoil Hat | timeline score: 5 | |
| 11 hours ago | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 5 | |
| 11 hours ago | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth |
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| S 11 hours ago | history | notice added | tchrist♦ | Comments only | |
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| S 11 hours ago | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Answers go in the answer box: comments providing answers will be removed. Comments have been moved to chat; do not continue the discussion here. Before posting a comment below this one, please review the purposes of comments. Comments that do not request clarification or suggest improvements usually belong as an answer, on English Language & Usage Meta, or in English Language & Usage Chat. Comments continuing discussion may be removed. | |
| 12 hours ago | history | edited | Ellen Spertus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Replaced "recgonizable" with "less dated" and "term" with "noun"
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| 12 hours ago | comment | added | Ellen Spertus | I'm in my 50s in the US, and "sucker" and "sap" sound to me like things that would be said in a black and white movie like Guys and Dolls. Google Books Ngram Viewer confirms that their usage in the last century peaked in the 1920s and 1930s. I'll rephrase my question. | |
| 12 hours ago | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Adjectives, offered here, are 'gullible' and 'naive'; if you require a noun only, please indicate this. Have you tried looking in a thesaurus? Pushover is offered here, in an earlier thread. | |
| 15 hours ago | comment | added | Stuart F | Which younger generations? Where? | |
| 15 hours ago | comment | added | fev | What makes you think sucker or sap are not understood or used by younger generations? | |
| 15 hours ago | history | asked | Ellen Spertus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |