Words hardly used now

I say palaver, an rigmarole

Palaver is in common use round here

Country bumpkin

I heard a word today that I haven't heard for about 30 years: what a palarva! (meaning what a lot of upset and fuss).

Casdon A friend of mine says she's had some jollop when she's had a drink

Jollop. My dad always says if something’s stuck ‘Just put a bit of jollop on it’

Got the hump.
Getting on my wick.
Face like a wet weekend.

Stop being mardy. 😏

i hear junior aged children saying
oh my days !
which sounds quite antiquated to me.
i think it spread out from urban black speech.
(i never heard it when i was young).

SkippyO some of those are brilliant. I often call my husband Cloth Ears

That is a wonderful selection of common expressions which I havnt heard in many a long year skippy. Thanks for the memories.

Oh they're all excellent!

In that case, I don't mind being a goat, HowVeryDareYou

Having put my thinking cap on, I've come up with this hotch-potch of words and phrases that were familiar to me in my in 1950's/1960s childhood. I imagine a good number would be met with blank stares of incomprehension if slipped into conversation with anyone not of a similar vintage.

skedaddle - leave a place quickly
vamoose - leave a place hurriedly
moonlight flit, do a bunk - leave rented accomodation without paying
baksheesh - money given as a tip
buckshee - free, without a charge
smithereens - as in smash to smithereens (pieces)
shemozzle - noisy confusion, hullabaloo
schnozzle - nose
bonce - head
give someone a fourpenny one - hit with the fist, maybe with the aid of a knuckleduster
skewwhiff - not straight
spend a penny - euphemism for going to the toilet
dekko - a look, as in 'take a dekko'
yakking - talking excessively
battleaxe - a quarrelsome woman
cummerbund - mens broad waistband
muffler - scarf worn around the neck
cloth-ears/cloth-eared - hard of hearing
ragamuffin / urchin - a child in ragged, dirty clothes
jalopy - an old car
play hooky - to truant from school
willy-nilly - like it or not

How about boz-eyed

MissAdventure GOAT = Greatest Of All Time.

Worth a bob or two.

Do you think I came up in a banana boat?

Now we're cooking with gas

I've never heard all of that saying before.

Bob's your uncle,
Fanny's your aunt,
Your granny's in the RAF!

And I am the Queen of Siam

His bit of stuff on the side

Gumption
Attacks of the vapours
Gippy tummy
Bilious
Dropsy
Apoplexy/ic
Run amok
Frock
Liberty bodice
Anti maccassars
Matinee jackets
Reticule
Stoppings
All over the shop
Living daylights
Splendid
Jolly dee

Frock - love that word as it sounds so archaic

Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs !

grandtanteJE65

NanKate

A woman of ill repute 😳

There was never a man of ill repute !!

No, but you could have a house of ill repute.

Would someone care to explain Norwich and China as anagrams? When I google them I get the city, terriers etc.

If you Google NORWICH the add the word ‘acronym’ all will be revealed.