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NanKate Sun 28-Jul-24 07:33:10

I have just read that words like wazzocks and plonkers are rarely used now.

How about swinging and grotty made popular in the 1960s?

BlueBelle Sun 28-Jul-24 11:34:09

Bloody
Damn
Blast
or as my mum used to say dam and blast the bloody thing
That’s not cricket
Titfer a girl at work was confuddled when I told her I liked her titfer
Toodle pip
Ginormous

Kate1949 Sun 28-Jul-24 11:36:19

You silly nit.
Listening to the wireless.
Going to the pictures or flicks. We still say going to the pictures.
Some of the words mentioned above I used a lot - mithered, fab for instance.

Kate1949 Sun 28-Jul-24 11:37:11

I used bloody a lot too!

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 11:38:20

Bloody Norah.

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 11:38:59

Grizzling (crying)

nanna8 Sun 28-Jul-24 11:41:18

Hell’s bells
If he had another brain, it’d be lonely
Bloody Norah
Sheilas ( for girls)
All mouth and no trousers

Kate1949 Sun 28-Jul-24 11:42:47

Twit

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 11:43:56

Bully beef.

Parky Sun 28-Jul-24 11:44:09

Big girl's blouse

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 11:49:27

Ooh I love that one. smile

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 11:58:56

Wibbly wobbly.

winterwhite Sun 28-Jul-24 11:59:23

Do we not speak any more? Most of those are used when the occasion arises.

Displeased
Shanks’s pony
Pram

NotSpaghetti Sun 28-Jul-24 12:01:24

I still use quote a few of these - but mainly when writing I think (WhatsApp to family in particular)

Used discombobulated yesterday..

Last week used floozie. I suppose I used it tongue in cheek though. I would be horrified with myself if thought of my daughter and friend as "floozies"!😱

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 12:01:54

My boy has no idea what I'm talking about, if I use some of these words.

BlueBelle Sun 28-Jul-24 12:07:25

Nor my grandkids MissA and when I told them I d get my ironing board out the glory hole they nearly fell off their seats
I ll leave you to look up what a glory hole is nowadays !!!

Kate1949 Sun 28-Jul-24 12:07:40

Trollop

Kate1949 Sun 28-Jul-24 12:08:30

I'm our house growing up we had a cubby hole.

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 12:10:17

I know both the old and the new meaning of glory hole.
We had a glory hole in our house, too. smile

MissAdventure Sun 28-Jul-24 12:37:46

Going to see a man about a dog.
Winsome.
Stout.
Fae.

Witzend Sun 28-Jul-24 12:44:05

Stout*, oh yes, my granny used to say that. Ditto ‘vexed’ - you never hear that any more.

*I recall a line from The Forsyte Saga - ‘My dear boy, how stout you’re getting!’
(The bloke, Swithin IIRC, was not amused!

boheminan Sun 28-Jul-24 12:54:22

have just thought to myself but no longer say aloud - strewth

Canalboatgranma Sun 28-Jul-24 13:05:56

Whenever I hear two times on the TV I crossly say 'it's Twice', but I think that word has died out

dragonfly46 Sun 28-Jul-24 13:09:30

Liberty bodice.

SueDonim Sun 28-Jul-24 13:20:32

We still use plenty of these words.

Others that come to mind are:

Fortnight.
Twice.
Portly
Sanfairyann
Fanny Finackerpan.
Pushing up daisies
Kicked the bucket
Washbasin.
Poppetypin.

NannyPT Sun 28-Jul-24 13:20:34

Ruddy
Splendid
Strumpet