Words hardly used now

welbeck

SkippyO, what have you got against the florin ?
let's hear it for the florin; floreat florin !

Darn it! Nothing at all against the florin apart from a failing memory. I guess I could also have include half a nicker for a ten bob note ?

Anymore for anymore ?

Shenanigans.

Enough blue in the sky yo make a sailor's trousers.

Oh, I've just rembered the rude answer to "where are you going?"
Nothing to do with men and dogs

It's gone a bit black over the back of Bill's mother's.

Brandish
Bounder
Cad

Scribbles

Gormless
My mother once described one of my, shall we say, less-intellectual teenage boyfriends as a gormless wonder.

Gutless wonder in our house, and gormless git.

SkippyO, what have you got against the florin ?
let's hear it for the florin; floreat florin !

Gormless
My mother once described one of my, shall we say, less-intellectual teenage boyfriends as a gormless wonder.

Conceited seems to be largely replaced by arrogant.

Four farthings to a penny. Two farthings to a halfpenny. Six halfpennies to a thruppence. Two thruppences to a tanner. Two tanners to a bob. Five tanners to a half-crown. Twenty one bob to a guinea. Cripes! I'd better scarper, in case the rozzers come after me in their black maria, for my tuppenny-ha'penny contribution to the discussion.

Lairy.

Poppycock.
Thrice.

Well I'll go to the bottom of our stairs!
Ye gods and little fishes
Balderdash

Witzend

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!

My nan always used that.
"You remember so-and-so, stout girl. Used to work on the buses"

Oh yes, goosegogs for gooseberries. Also

Hedge pigs for headgehogs
Cackle berries = eggs.

Around here we used to say guzgogs for gooseberries.

When I asked my granddad how old he was he’d say ‘Same age as my tongue and six months older than my teeth.’

If he was going somewhere it was either the man and his dog or ‘To see about a wigwam for a horse’s bridle.’

Ruddy
Splendid
Strumpet

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.

Liberty bodice.

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

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

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!