Words we don't use any more

A GM of mine used to say stout - she never said fat, unless it meant meat fat.

And I’m reminded of a line in the first Forsyte Saga series ‘My dear boy, how stout you’re getting!’ As said by one of the elderly Forsyte sisters to her brother Swithin, IIRC.

Other words,

Balderdash
Rapscallion
Slattern
Brassiere

'Don't forget to pull the chain'...

Underskirt
Petticoat
Slip

All mean the same thing!

Grannmarie

Mantlepiece
Bureau
Tallboy
Dresser
Display cabinet

Totally!!!!!

Casdon

Words my parents still use but I haven’t heard anybody else say for many years are chuntering and gallivanting.

We still chunter!

As well , "bonny" , "terrifying" and "frightening "often displaced by the puerile "scary". How I hate hearing adults use that word.

Vestibule - entrance hall and quilt for duvet.

"Stout" is a good one.
We had a delightful but undeniably bonny girl in our class of 14 year olds and she subscribed , like most of us, to converting the school uniform skirt to a mini by rolling up the waist band. This provoked one of the nuns to state at form time (without naming names thank God) that if you are " stout" you should dress accordingly.
I hasten to point out that stoutness has stalked me my entire life.......

Dictaphone.
As in "May i use your dictaphone"?
"No, use your finger like everybody else!"

Kate1949

Housecoat (dressing gown)

My husband still calls it that.

The box- the tv.
Couch.

MissAdventure

Will you do the fandango?

Lol - I should have sung to the end of that line, than I could have claimed fandango

Will you do the fandango?

Forsooth
Strumpet
Walkman
Floppy Disc
Scaramouche (unless you frequently sing the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody)

I'm going back a generation further - my grandparents always referred to the 'wireless', not the 'radio'. For me it was a radio, and was - still is - a part of my life. But my own children long-since stopped listening to the radio, and to my grandchildren, that word must sound totally archaic now!

Such an interesting thread. Having read all the posts I realise my grandchildren would not understand anything that has been mentioned. And I doubt my adult children would either.
My contribution is cruet set.

Mantlepiece
Bureau
Tallboy
Dresser
Display cabinet

Singlet.

Sunday best, handkerchief, courting, eiderdown.

Brassier.

Petticoat
Liberty bodice
Scullery
Bottom drawer

Gay meaning happy.

Yonks

Bog, for toilet.
Nice one, Cyril.

I don't hear the word "pail" used for a bucket these days