Words that changed meaning in past hundred years [closed]
I am looking for a list of words that were used to mean something different from for what they are used now.
- some words are such that whose meaning has changed completely and
- some words have more than one meaning, but earlier one meaning was in popular use and nowadays another meaning is in popular use.
I am posting two links here and here, both talk about the change of meaning of some words over a period of some hundreds of years, but I am only interested in past one hundred years period, not older than that.
In case if it is too much for you to type to explain the earlier meaning and recent meaning, you can just type the word, I will try to find the two usages.
How about these:
- Harbinger
- Obsequious
- Restive
- Garble
- Pabulum
- Beldam
- Prude
- Quantum
- Sycophant
- Meticulous
Some of these may not be exactly what you are looking for.