Words we don't use any more

How about a smoking jacket?

I always thought a smoking jacket looked very vulnerable to being spoiled by any dropped hot cigarette ash. Weren't they usually very fine fabric, not at all hardwearing?

My dad turned his normal every day jacket into a smoking jacket. He was smoking his pipe in the garden and Mum called him in for dinner. He put the still very hot pipe in his jacket pocket and his pocket lining started to smoulder 😆

🤣

Grannynannywanny

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 😊

He wasn’t Gene Hunt was he?😁

Duffel coat anyone?

Anorak?

Pacamac (spelt wrong I think)

Rainhood

Sitting there like cheese at fourpence
Copperin’ up (looking in your purse for the last few coins so you could pay)
As throng as Throp’s wife (throng meaning being busy)
It’s being so cheerful as keeps you going (from the show ITMA, I think)

On the shelf. Used to be said of a woman over 30 who never married.

I remember very salty bacon often being described as being "As salty as a cut off Lot's wife's arse." Later I discovered that it was a mis-quote from Ulysses where it is the beef that is salt.

Spinster.
I'm not as green aa I'm cabbage looking.

What a lovely thread! I wrote down all the words that were common in my childhood( 1950s) and discarded half of them as the have already been mentioned. This is the remainder-

Looking glass - mirror. My mother would ask us to clean all glasses, meaning mirrors.

Blacklead. She was also very keen on black leading the stove. Horrible black stuff that was difficult to wash off your hands.

Trap. My uncle used to visit in a pony and trap , in which he gave us rides. Never heard of a trap since.

Nylons. When I started wearing these, they always had seams. It was a great effort to get the seams straight and we were always asking everyone “Are my seams straight?”.

Thole. If we had toothache or any other pain, we would be told to thole it and only if it persisted , would we get to visit the dentist. Same with any other childhood illness.

Strand. This was a long sandy beach.

My dad used to say "That's a nice drop of Moey" when he had a drink (quite often home-brew which may have been Moey but not nice)

Gran used to say "it's in slinnucks" when a coat or pair of trousers was worn beyond repair.

We also used to call calves "Mogs".
& "Mardy" for in a bad mood (although they still use that now in some parts I think)

Mum & Dad also used to say "Ally, ally" when they wanted us to hurry up - obvs from the french, but they didn't speak French.

Gosh!
Crumbs!
What the Dickens?
Up in Annie’s room behind the clock (that’s where something lost would be according to my Dad)
‘Push your ears back’. (Wash your face)
Pig bin - kitchen scraps collected weekly
Beechams powder wrapped in a fold of paper
Cardinal red polish used on doorsteps
Vanity case. I got one for my 21st 🤦‍♀️
Hair Tonic. My Dad used it. Not sure why as he returned from war almost bald apart from a frill of hair around the edge 😂

Slummock.
Stop slummocking around on the couch. If you're tired, go to bed!

Moth62

Sitting there like cheese at fourpence
Copperin’ up (looking in your purse for the last few coins so you could pay)
As throng as Throp’s wife (throng meaning being busy)
It’s being so cheerful as keeps you going (from the show ITMA, I think)

Ooh, I'd completely forgotten the word 'throng'.
My grandma used to use it often, though I've never heard the expression 'as throng as Throp's wife'.

Oh dear, I say Gosh all the time, so I’m outdated.

How about choochy face, which people used to say to babies,

Another thing that has changed is common names for pets, dogs were called names like Rover, Maxi, Trixie, Flossie, Pickles, and cats were Fluff, Pusskins, Kitty rather than human names being the norm.

When I started this thread I didn't realise how many interesting words and phrases had fallen by the wayside many of which I had never heard before. I am thoroughly enjoying reading all the various posts.

Until 30 years ago, you still heard older people referring to 50 pence as ten bob and £ 1.50 as 30 bob, and a 10 pence coin as a 2 bob bit. Rarely heard these after the nineties as the pre decimal money faded into a distant memory, until someone mentioned on an internet forum how they could have a really good night out in the early seventies for 30 bob.

Rosie51

I always thought a smoking jacket looked very vulnerable to being spoiled by any dropped hot cigarette ash. Weren't they usually very fine fabric, not at all hardwearing?

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"Smoking" is the German word for a dinner jacket.

You don't hear of women wearing a roll on any more. Remember my mother wearing one; it was a bit like an elastic tube that she stepped into and sort of unravelled it until it covered her from her thighs to her chest. Must have been torture!

My mum's roll on was just around her hips and across her belly.
With straps on, for her stockings.