Words we don't use any more

Fizzog - haven’t heard that since I was a child.

Oh yes! Thats a great one from my childhood.

Casdon

Fizzog - haven’t heard that since I was a child.

One of my late Dad’s fave sayings 😁

Cossy

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”?

Yes naked 😄
Birthday suit-naked
Legs like pipe cleaners (thin)
Couldn’t stop a pig in a passage- bow legged
Ironmonger
Costermonger
Haberdashery

Moth62

My dad used to talk about eating pobs as a small boy! I’ve never heard anyone else use the term, I thought it was just a family thing.

Yes, pobs, either hot milk with bits of buttered bread in it or soup with dry bits of bread in it.

One eye and a whelk.
That may have been just my nan's own saying, though.
She was a master at them.

M0nica

Ginnel is a word still being used in the areas that have them, 'ginnel' and 'twitchen', and other words for those little short lanes that run through most villages and most towns, though then often called 'alleys'

'smashed to smithereens' is also in my vocalulary and I have heard others use it.

I suspecct there are words I consider extinct that others use regulalry

It was mentioned on another thread recently so I googled it and there are so many words for an alley, in Yorkshire it’s apparently called a snicket and in Lancashire a ginnel.

Fleeking - as in " you don't want to be fleeking out with a nasty cold like that"

Tripe ( to eat)

Oreo

M0nica

Ginnel is a word still being used in the areas that have them, 'ginnel' and 'twitchen', and other words for those little short lanes that run through most villages and most towns, though then often called 'alleys'

'smashed to smithereens' is also in my vocalulary and I have heard others use it.

I suspecct there are words I consider extinct that others use regulalry

It was mentioned on another thread recently so I googled it and there are so many words for an alley, in Yorkshire it’s apparently called a snicket and in Lancashire a ginnel.

It’s a gwly in Wales. In the midlands it’s a jitty.

I still say I'm going to "tape" a TV programme despite not having a video recorder for years

Those pop up alphabetical name, address and phone number books that you kept on the telephone table in the hall. And does anyone still have a designated table in the hall for their phone?

Talking of ginnels, alleys etc, the local word here is Sussex is twitten but I think younger people tend to use the word alley.

in Sussex

Up in’t north a ginnel were a snicket.
My mother used to call synthetic cream Zinc ointment, which was used for nappy rash. Babies also used to posset and had three month colic.
Horses got strangles, puppies caught hard pad, old men died of apoplexy. Migraine was a sick headache.
Teeth were gnashers, a nose was a conk. If brainy you were a big head or a smart-arse.
At school Domestic Science was cookery and Swedish Drill was exercises. The 11 plus was the Scholarship exam. Prefects were Monitors.
This could go on forever.

Witzend ( yesterday), I am a regular user of the word " balderdash". I am often heard muttering it to someone on the television or radio- always well deserved , of course.
And I have been known to refer to someone as a " Floozie" , not directed at their sexual behaviour, but meaning one busy gallivanting rather than fulfilling her domestic duties. This word may be directed at my daughters, who wear the title with pride.

Nit - as in you daft nit

Plonker.

Oh no, I’m out of date. I call my dog a plonker when he does stupid things, like going to the bottom of our winding staircase and refusing to come back up unless I walk behind him. The word suits him perfectly.

My grandmother born 1902 always called a mirror, a looking glass.

My mum used to call synthetic cream “sympathetic” cream and my dad used to say if a person looked ill that they were “the colour o’ bad fat”. He used to say margarine was “like cart grease”

Magenta8

in Sussex

Where my parents retired and began describing the back double to the shops than ran behind the houses as 'the twitten'

In north Berkshire, the little lanes that ran around our village were 'twichens'

MissAdventure

Bog, for toilet.
Nice one, Cyril.

Bog is in constant use in our house, also used by several columnists I read, J Clarkson being one. Incidentally there is an old house/ museum in Kew Gardens where you can see an old promotional flyer that offers the service of coming to clean out as in empty your boghouse. I think the house was the summer house of a king.

Great Scott!
Good grief!
Pantry
Scullery
Motor car
Slacks
Frock
Stockinged feet
My grandparents used these.

My mum's favourite insult was "you are a fathead". And she'd say "TTFN" instead of goodbye.

I still call my duvets "quilts" as they were first known as continental quilts.

I don't often here anyone say that they will "plump" for something (choose or opt).

Gas pokers, no youngsters would have a clue!!