Words we don't use any more

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

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

Housecoat (dressing gown)

Gazunder- po
Eiderdown

Common (as muck)

keepingquiet

We never used pants for trousers or wind cheater for anorak (although I think this is an Australian term) my friend still uses wireless but I don't and we never used drawers for knickers- now I call them pants!

We never used the word pants for trousers either although I believe Americans do.

Interesting that you say wind cheater is an Australian term, one of my grandparents grew up in New Zealand so maybe they handed the term down to my parents.