Words hardly used now

Grannybags

Nobody “lives in sin” any more!

They don’t go on ‘dirty weekends’ either. 🙁

Oh I had forgotten all about dirty weekends…
Brighton was a popular destination for those indulging, if memory serves.

Chump
Counterpane
Picaninny(sorry about that one)

How about -

I should coco
I'll go to our house
You'll have someone's eye out with that

This will end in tears

"What will the neighbours say?" said by MIL when DD1 was born 3 months after our wedding

Scribbles

^Calling someone Mardy ( when they were in a mood)!^

Mardy is always the term used in this house to describe someone sulky/petulant/grumpy.

....which reminds me of a term I haven't heard for decades. Whatever happened to "crosspatch" when someone was grumpy. As in, "he's a real crosspatch today."?

We had a big book of nursery rhymes featuring crosspatch.

‘Crosspatch, draw the latch,
Sit by the fire and spin,
Take a cup and drink it up,
And call your neighbours in.’

Hither and thither.

Born the wrong side of the blanket

Argy Bargy.
How's yer father.

I use the word 'Duffer' to my French grandchildren they love it.

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

No one is an ‘unmarried mother’ nowadays.

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

If brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his hat off.

Heebie-jeebies.

Come over all unnecessary.

Getting the glad eye.

A fit of the vapours. (My dd had one of those last night, phoning me in a panic about flying ants! )

Bilious attack and sick headaches - my dad had those, migraines as we now know.

Love this word

By Jingo!
Penneth/penorth (penny's worth)
Spend a penny
Thunderbox
Khasi/carsi (sorry don't know the spelling!)
Gramaphone
Blower (phone)
Frock

Sorry, forgot to include 'swinging her handbag'!

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

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!

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!🤪

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

MissAdventure

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

So did we!

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!