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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?

Witzend Mon 29-Jul-24 13:20:07

Apologies for lowering the tone - todger, . IMO far preferable to the words of 4 letters than end in -ck, but I haven’t heard it for ages.

MissAdventure Mon 29-Jul-24 13:17:02

You're a brick.
I wonder how that would sound to someone who's never heard it before.

Dalfie5577 Mon 29-Jul-24 13:13:25

Tuaim

It's magic?
Fab.
Just the ticket.
You're such a card.
Right on, man.
Trendy.

My five year old grandson says 'Just the ticket!'. I can't imagine where he gets it from! 🤣

MissAdventure Mon 29-Jul-24 13:12:09

Comely. smile

gagsy Mon 29-Jul-24 13:10:38

Can I do you now?
Flippin heck

MissAdventure Mon 29-Jul-24 13:05:58

Are people even affronted these days?

MissAdventure Mon 29-Jul-24 13:05:15

Flapping yer gums.

farmgran Mon 29-Jul-24 13:02:21

My granny used to tell me not to meither her when I was being annoying. She called Gypsies strangers.
People aren't flabbergasted any more.

MissAdventure Mon 29-Jul-24 13:00:27

You wally!
Another that was of it's time, along with being Humphried.

cc Mon 29-Jul-24 12:52:13

I still say "pictures" rather than cinema. I prefer "tuppence", "thre'pence" and "fourpence" to two pence, three pence and four pence. Not quite sure how to spell them though.

cc Mon 29-Jul-24 12:47:27

Lankyladman

Plonker hd it's 'moment' because of "Only Fools and Horses"

Plonker is in regular use in our household, applied to everybody but ourselves of course.

MissAdventure Mon 29-Jul-24 12:33:11

That'll be me then.
I spell it heebie jeebies smile

HeavenLeigh Mon 29-Jul-24 12:31:59

Heebee geebees spelt incorrectly

specki4eyes Mon 29-Jul-24 12:27:17

Wing mirror
Spiffing

"Fewer" totally agree with that, even so called wordsmiths are using "less"...its my pet hate, as is older people saying "Cool!".
(Sorry I've gone off piste)

MissAdventure Mon 29-Jul-24 12:19:43

Lankyladman

Plonker hd it's 'moment' because of "Only Fools and Horses"

I love plonker.
You're pulling my plonker! That means taking the Mickey, but that too, is outdated now.

Lankyladman Mon 29-Jul-24 12:18:01

Raise - is getting replaced by the simplistic 'Up'.
I don't expect it to oust it from its use in the game of Poker...

Lankyladman Mon 29-Jul-24 12:15:45

"How very dare you"........'Little England

suelld Mon 29-Jul-24 12:15:18

Mardy

Manky

Lankyladman Mon 29-Jul-24 12:13:19

Plonker hd it's 'moment' because of "Only Fools and Horses"

suelld Mon 29-Jul-24 12:12:27

Always annoyed at the loss of WHOM …just WHO seems to be used now in all cases where ‘whom’ was formerly used, and I hate the now general use of FIT instead of FITTED. ( as in “It fit him” instead of “it fitted him” ) .
There was also a recent comment that Trump “ had the morals of an alley cat” ( true ) by Biden, which was slated cos it was such an out moded term! Not that I wasn’t true!

Bessieb Mon 29-Jul-24 12:11:50

MissAdventure

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

So did we!

TiggyW Mon 29-Jul-24 12:11:36

Spinster
Old maid
Living over’t brush
Liberty bodice
Mazy (dizzy)
Fettler (chap) - as in ‘How are ti, mi owd fettler?’ (Lancs. dialect)
Ha’penny
Tuppence
Threepenny bit
Pictures (cinema)
Labour Exchange
Radiogram
Courting

mae13 Mon 29-Jul-24 12:08:00

MissAdventure

Haven't got two ha'pennies to rub together.

Yes, and the companion to that must be "they haven't two brass farthings to rub together".
Imagine explaining to a Generation Z what a farthing was!🤪

Witzend Mon 29-Jul-24 12:05:46

MissAdventure

Old biddy.
Not you, halfpint1, just that your duffer reminded me of old biddy.

I once heard a young Scottish boy, no more than about 16, refer to somebody’s ’wee biddy wife’. Loved it!

Foxyferret Mon 29-Jul-24 12:04:47

I’ll go to the foot of our stairs
Far out! (Meaning cool)