Words we don't use any more

Bosoms.
Nay, (Nay! And thrice nay!)

Cad
Scoundrel.

Bounder.

I still say pull the chain even though we have none
The clippie for the bus conductor.

I recognise all these words you've mentioned though don't use all of them.

We wore stockings before tights.
We had rucksacks but they were pronounced Rooksacks. German?

My mother had a fur coat! Imagine having one now.

TerriBull

Cheerio! I found a letter one of my grandmother's brothers wrote to her circa 1940s and that's how he signed off

At my junior school, saying Cheerio (commonly used back then) instead of goodbye was considered totally unacceptable! I found it very odd when a breakfast cereal apparently called Goodbyes came on the market...

I had a windcheater. It was covered in a rubbery substance - and a very unpleasant smell as the rubber started to rot.

Disused words:-

Toodle-Pip (goodbye)
Bees knees/cat's whiskers (something really good)
Doolally or Doolally Tap (Crazy)
Tranny (transistor radio as opposed to one with valves)
Record player

Trollop - one of my favourites!

My grandmother was well corsetted ! Wore her Sunday best. There was a cigarette box (wooden ) on the coffee table and a table lighter !

I think there is a difference between words we no longer use because no one uses the item either - Liberty bodice, bottom drawer, eiderdown - and words where the item is still in use but one word for it is no longer used - pail, house coat, gamp.

I have one that is actually 2. We recently moved house and the house we moved into was superficially clean, but actually filthy, bathroom included. My reaction was to describe the late occupant as a 'slut' because in the past a slut was used in a generic term for a 'dirty' woman, whether her dirt was perceived as being in the house or sexually, but DD has told me that today the word 'slut' has only one meaning - and that is sexual.

My alternative was 'slattern', but that is also a word no longer used. so I now describe her as The Slob and wait in trepidation to be told that too has an inapproate meaning or has gone out of use.

Words from our family: girdle, what a palaver, a nice pair of slacks, a nice costume, put your woollies on. Just a few there that sprung to mind.

My dad used to say toodle pip for goodbye and tickety boo for everything is alright. The bin men were dustmen, and we had rag and bone men. Also water from the tap was called corporation pop.

My mum used to say, “She runs to fat” meaning someone put on weight easily.
She also used to say someone was “blousy” or had “chocolate box looks”

Living in sin, which is what we did before we were married!

We had rucksacks but they were pronounced Rooksacks. German ????
“Backpacks” now
(Although we must be of an age I have never heard Rooksack) My father had something called a Haversack - army origin I think.
Well-upholstered - of a Hyacinth Bucket-type figure
Wireless - meaning radio
Dialling a phone number
Bus conductor
London A-Z
Phone books

There must be many more!

Portly.

We used to call RN military lorries 'tillys' (from 'utility vehicle' apparently)
Come to think of it, lorries are nowadays mostly referred to as 'trucks'.

Coal man
Steam roller

We always called the cupboard under the stairs the glory hole because it had everything from the ironing board to Dad's toolbox stuffed in it. But my son nearly passed out with shock when I told him that I was pleased I'd got a glory hole at my new house. Apparently the meaning has changed.

Here no one uses Sheilas for women anymore and no more Bruces for the men, either. Thank goodness. I think the use of ‘so’ at the start of a sentence is fading, another thank goodness.

No one buys a three piece suite any more

Portly
Wallflower
Junket
Slag
The Bog

Loving all these words especially the rag and bone man. He would be a help when decluttering
Coal hole.
Spend a penny.
Bolero top
Sherbert
Mangle
Electric light company

Cardamom

We always called the cupboard under the stairs the glory hole because it had everything from the ironing board to Dad's toolbox stuffed in it. But my son nearly passed out with shock when I told him that I was pleased I'd got a glory hole at my new house. Apparently the meaning has changed.

Yes indeed it has!

Chimneysweep

NotSpaghetti

Yes you are right ferry23 I suppose it's because my family also had a ladies gown shop. And yes, it sold ballgowns - which is what I call them still of course.

And I do still also say dressing gowns etc as you do.
And obviously those graduates at degree conventions will wear a gown.

In my head I was simply thinking of my father's ladies gown shop and his lovely stylish logo with Ladies Gowns

I was referring to the use of "gown: in that sense. I don't use it like that. And actually never have. My family business was definitely upmarket with lots of bride's mother outfits, formal and evening wear (and some millinery) but my father always said he was "in the rag trade".

I hated being the "shop front" whenever I went out anywhere. I suppose you would have had that too?

Yes I was also the shop front, but on the upside, I didn't pay for a lot of my clothes and never paid for a pair of tights until the shop was sold when I was about 35! Even though the shop didn't cater for the likes of a 1960's teenager or a 1970's young Mum, my Mum bless her, would usually pick something up for me when she went buying in the West End. Or if I was around when the travelling sales showed up in their funny shaped vans, I was allowed to rummage inside to see if there was anything for me.

Yes, our shop also featured "gowns" on the (now very old fashioned) logo.

Happy memories - sorry to hijack this wonderful thread!

Oreo

Batchelor and confirmed Batchelor ( sp?)
Antimacassar
Doily
In the buff
Up the duff

I still use “up the duff” haha but not in serious conversation and I hear “in the buff” used, meaning “naked”?

Marmin

Chimneysweep

Is there a new name for them?