No Longer Fancies That Word

(Mum has just bought a new lamp for the dining room. I have a tendency to call everything “fancy,” sometimes sarcastically, in lieu of finding other, more accurate descriptions.)

Me: “Hey, you got a new, fancy lamp, too!”

Mum: “It’s not new. It’s old-fashioned.”

Me: “You just bought it; that makes it new. It’s still fancy.”

Mum: “It’s not “fancy.” It’s old-fashioned!”

Me: “Mum, “fancy” does not mean new. It just means it looks nice.”

Mum: “Oh…”