Words hardly used now

Sorry, forgot to include 'swinging her handbag'!

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

Love this word

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.

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

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

No one is an ‘unmarried mother’ nowadays.

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

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

Argy Bargy.
How's yer father.

Born the wrong side of the blanket

Hither and thither.

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.’

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

This will end in tears

How about -

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

Chump
Counterpane
Picaninny(sorry about that one)

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

Grannybags

Nobody “lives in sin” any more!

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

^Can't quite remember the proper name for the, you know ... ?

thingamajig
whatchamacallit
oojamaflip
thingamabob^

Oh, you mean the doobrey!

how about groovy and bint for a girl .

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."?

Dunce
For (instead of because)

I too like Trollop Georgesgran 😀

When I used to come back from an evening with my boyfriend my Mum used to say ‘You look as if you have been dragged through a hedge backwards’ ☺️