Words hardly used now

spiffing

Getting on my wick.

JdotJ

Discombobulated

In daily use in our family - several generations.

Get a good hiding

Look after the pennies…and the pounds will look after themselves.

On from the wandering hands, there’s Pocket billiards….
Heard first many moons ago by colleagues at my then place of work describing a manager.

( He's got ) Wandering hands.

‘Keep your hand on your happeney’ 😳

I remember all those euphemisms we used for periods .
Talking about it with a Malay speaking friend -she said that it's called your coming moon and my Chinese friend calls it her red snows .
Equally a taboo subject in both cultures though things have changed .
I don't recall hearing the word period it was monthly said in hushed tones as if it were something shameful .
And it was periods = becoming a woman = attracting men = becoming pregnant !
I don't know what those friends would think of Naked Attraction !

Meant to write "What they ate". Even had to change it twice and it still came out wrong.

My Dad used to say "I'll have your guts for garters" and someone who wasn't fussy about what they are was a "scupperguts"

Not on your Nellie
Bob's your uncle
Tuppence Ha'penny
Couldn't give a monkey's

thank and you used in conjunction
please
sorry

A tit in a trance.

Chinless wonder, in our house

I think the modern version of “Bet your bippy” would be something like “of course”, or “you can say that again” - haven’t heard it in years!

On American TV it was, 'You can bet your sweet bippy' as a phrase. Nothing to do with breast feeding which sounded like a family word for that family.

That last bit sounds like a party song

A few more, less familiar words and terms that were found lurking somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain, so I thought I'd bring them out for an airing...

clodhopper - a large, heavy shoe & by association, a clumsy person or clodhopping used as an adjective

clobber - someone's possessions, especially their clothes (or 'gear')

collation - a light informal meal (a term often used by my father, but never heard anywhere else !)

lughole - the ear
dingaling - male thingummy
doodah - all of a doodah - confused
shenanigans - devious trick
malarkey, bunkum, balderdash, phooey - various terms for nonsense.
kerfuffle - a commotion
lovey-dovey - (When checking the spelling, I came across a list of reduplicated phrases and selected a few of the more familiar ones.)

topsy-turvy
heebie-jeebies
hanky-panky
higgledy-piggledy
hunky-dory
namby-pamby
okey-dokey

Bippy... what does that mean, please?
I've only heard it a couple of times from a family where the mum breast fed until the children could talk, and a breast was a bippy.

Crikey
Blimey
Bippy (“You can bet your bippy”)
Bogart

Just a few of my favourites!

Unmentionables.
Smalls (knickers)

Brassiere.

Illegitimate ba....... a nasty phrase

illegitimate