Words we don't use any more

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

Allira

Spiv

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 😊

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.

Clodhoppers.

Shanks' pony

Has 'Nosh' already been mentioned?

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.

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.

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.

Left in a huff

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

I met an Arthur Crown

MissAdventure

Gordon Bennett!

Alan Bennett has a brother whose name is Gordon. We knew him well. Very nice man.

I love that!

I just called my dog another one you don’t hear often now, as he was refusing to come in from the garden - buggerlugs.

Oh, I've often wondered if there are many Gordon Bennetts around.

MissAdventure

Gordon Bennett!

I had a great uncle called Gordon Bennett!

The variation I knew was 'All mouth and trousers' MissAdventure I am not sure what it means.

I also remember 'Red hat and no drawers.'