👉 Okay, alright settle down class, let’s tackle this…interesting… bit of 20th-century argle bargle. You’ve stumbled upon the rather peculiar, frankly a little desperate, and now largely forgotten word –
"esixnet."
Now immediately you're probably picturing a fancy misspelling, right? It absolutely looks like someone mistyped "six teen,” that 60s throwback of youthful rebellion. And honestly, it kind of STARTED out as that. Around the late 1950—early 1960's, in some very specific corners of the American South, this was a folksy euphemism for... wait for it… "teen-agers." (Let the dramatic cough ensue here - I absolutely need to blow that one out. Seriously, just saying "teenager's teen age is a mouthful!) The point here isn't that they were being polite! It was this wonderfully, wilfully obfuscatory way to avoid openly insulting young people. Like you wouldn’t yell, "Hey there, you little screw-ups, go back to your stuff in the corner!" Instead? You might mutter, with a wink and a knowing glance: "Well, bless his esixnets , they seem awfully rowdy today." The humour of it is the sheer degree of circumlocution. It's like trying to describe brown by saying, "
