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by BEENTHERE on November 21st, 2009
The word awesome came into play, in the late 60's and early 70's among the flower childeren of america. but the upside is, it was only used to express the quality of the drugs they were taking at the time. If it was good it was Awesome!!!!!Now 30yrs late, Guess what.. now we sing "Our God is an Awesome God, He reigns from Heaven above.....If they only knew what the word related to.......WOULD THEY STILL SING.
by graduated pixie getting pissed on December 11th, 2007
My best guess was in the mid to late eighties. I seem to remember a connection to Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. But I could be wrong. It could be earlier and I'm just to young to remember.
by iwnit on December 11th, 2007
1) "Let's start with awe. The word developed from age (about 1250) and aghe (about 1200). It was borrowed from a Scandinavian source, from Proto-Germanic. Old English ege `fear, awe' produced eie and aye, both also meaning 'fear,' in early Middle English. Today's form awe appeared in the 15th century.
Awesome arose in 1598 from awe + -some, a suffix forming adjectives."
Source:
http://www.takeourword.com/arc_logi.html
2) "What new slang was introduced during the 70s that you can think of? This is a list of all the words that were in popular usage during the 70s."
"Awesome
Cool: Thats totally awesome Man!"
Source:
http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/terms.shtml
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