Words we don't use any more

I heard myself saying today that something was as much use as a nine bob note.

Left in a huff

My mum used to say 'Standing around like one of Lewis's' when someone was hanging about and doing nothing useful. Referred to the doorman (or floor walker?) at Lewis's department store.

I have to laugh when I see old episodes of Grange Hill and hear expressions like nutjob and div, expressions rarely heard since the eighties.
My brother grew up in the nineties and he can recall when people said something was wickid( ie good), people were loved up or blissed out( happy), or as one( together). Probably part of the rave culture of that era and not heard much since the nineties.

fancyflowers

Bonnet
Bloomers (my mother wore them)
Twist dress
Whitsy (Whitsuntide) best (clothes)
Courting
Foreign muck (my mother again, meaning garlic and anything that wasn't cabbage)

@#€_-

And cocktail dresses!

My Dad was in the rag trade (I think I said that already) and each season there were cocktail dresses, D&Js (dress and jacket) and shirtwaisters in the collection. There was a time when "culottes" were included, too

You can tell the obsolete words because the phone's dictionary doesn't recognise them and puts a squiggly line underneath!

It is certainly flummoxed by counterpane and shirtwaister.

Has 'Nosh' already been mentioned?

Shanks' pony

Clodhoppers.

Three piece suites and three piece suits seem to be rarer these days.

Also what in my younger days was called a DJ (dinner jacket not disc jockey in this context) is now called a tuxedo.

A car coat.

When we had our first car in the 1960’s my lovely dad had a car coat. It was basically a long jacket but at the time was specifically called a car coat.

Worn with his driving gloves he looked the part in his Ford Cortina 😊

"Like Piffy on a rock bun" - no idea who Piffy was!

I had a car coat for years. Ideal, as it was longer than a jacket but not a full length coat. Are they sometimes known as a pea coat now? Or is that just for men maybe. A very useful garment for those in-between days. Sorry, I’ve gone off on a tangent here. How about a cup of weak tea being “like Mazawattee”? My mum used this all the time but it wasn’t until fairly recently that I discovered it was a brand of tea popular in the war.

Car coats are actually still a thing, a trendy thing even, Boden sell them!

No pea coats are specifically of heavy wool. Used to be military and double breasted.

My son bought one last year. He called ot a pea coat. Still thick wool but not as heavy.

I didn’t know that Casdon. I don’t recall hearing it since the late 60’s.

I think it is one of those retro revival things Grannynannywanny, trendy again with the in crowd, I’m not one of them, but I noticed it in their sales pitch last autumn.

Allira

Spiv

I have used that one lately, I think with regard to Nigel Farage!

Looking back on my Dad’s car coat in the 60’s it was a bit “Del Boy” 😀

Of course when everyone knew what a car coat was the heating in cars was generally poor.
We used to keep rugs in ours for long journeys. Probably out of habit we still have a rug in the boot of one of them.

Weeny

NotSpaghetti

Of course when everyone knew what a car coat was the heating in cars was generally poor.
We used to keep rugs in ours for long journeys. Probably out of habit we still have a rug in the boot of one of them.

And Driving Gloves! I remember getting these for my 17th Birthday.

Gallivanting

Yes, yogitree - my oldest son has some!
I'm sure he only wears them when the top's down!

I had a reefer jacket back in the day and it looked remarkably like what is now called a pea coat. People smoked reefers too, I believe they contained cannabis.

Apparently "a reefer jacket is an officer's or chief petty officer's pea coat, with the same design but bearing gold buttons and epaulettes."
So now we know!
I certainly hadn't remembered that!