Words we don't use any more

Poppycock
Gasper ( cigarette)
Bun in the oven

Oreo I have never heard the word 'Gamp' before, I'm going to start using this and see if people know what I'm talking about!

I remember 'Steptoe and Son' popularised the word "Berk" meaning an idiot or a fool. It's a pity nobody at the BBC bothered to find out its derivation. Fortunately, the word seems have fallen out of fashion.

sorry, please, thank you, good,

watermeadow

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.

Babies still posset, though annoyingly the American "spit up" is used rather more.
I've never heard of "three month colic" but all my clients seem to have heard of "colic" even though it's a vague collection of symptoms rather than an actual disease.

Witzend

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

My grandfather (b. 1885) was heard by my mother (b. 1924) to say to a friend, "my, you're looking prosperous!" - according to my mother it meant "you look fat"

Baker's boy. Ours was middle-aged and stout and never wore his dentures.

Panty-girdle.

There was a TV ad for the Playtex Cross Your Heart Bra which absolutely fascinated me as a child, especially the bit where the friend says "I have midriff bulge, I need a longline bra"

Midriff bulge - it sounded like some kind of mysterious congenital medical condition to me at the time..

Magenta8

I remember 'Steptoe and Son' popularised the word "Berk" meaning an idiot or a fool. It's a pity nobody at the BBC bothered to find out its derivation. Fortunately, the word seems have fallen out of fashion.

Oh goodness - I looked it up😳. I always thought it was a mild - even affectionate - term of abuse.

A phrase, rather than a word, that my mum used to say is '(he can) run up a shutter' meaning she wouldn't do what was being asked of her. Something like 'your Aunt Nellie wants me to help her weed her garden at the weekend, but she can run up a shutter'.

I don't think I've heard anyone else say it, and I've no idea of its derivation.

"Gamp" for umbrella is from the Dickens character Sarah Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit" who had a big, untidily furled umbrella.
My Junior School teacher in 1950s referred to any of our comics as "Comic Cuts"
When I was lifted over a wall as a little child it was often with the exclamation,"Over the top and the best of luck" I was horrified years later to leatn that expression was often exhanged as the men left their trenches in WW1

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.

We have a little alley in Lincoln from the High Street to the river that is called the Glory Hole!

Peckish as hungry?

Coffin nails - cigarettes!

We called chewing gum speg, and anyone who was thin could be called speg or speggy. A large/overweight person could be called ‘a big boiling piece’, and a person living in sin would be described as living over the brush.

MissAdventure

Oh, my mum used to weqr a 'roll on'.

Did she now? I wore one as a teenager, and devilish uncomfortable it was too.

Frock (for dress); "young man" for "boyfriend". My mother was always asking me if my daghter had a young man yet. Sadly she didn't live long enough to see my daughter happily coupled and subsequently married.

What once was a 'toilet bag' is now a 'wash bag'!

Bonny is still used regularly in the north east (especially Newcastle and its environs) but it means pretty or beautiful , not “stout” as some people on here seem to be suggesting,

Mothers ruin - gin

A great thread!
My contribution is to say that the short versions of men's names like Bob, Dick, Jim, Bill, have been replaced by Rob, Rick, Jamie, Will.
And the short names like Alfie, Jack, Harry have become given names, more common than Alfred, John, Henry. I'm sure there are others. Archie?

One of my grandfathers, born in 1879, was Edward, known as Ned. An uncle of my husband's, born between the wars, was Ted. Now Edward is Ed or Eddie.

One of my grandsons is Albert George - known as Bertie.

How about a Hall Stand? Anybody but me still got one of those? I remember my folks buying this one off a schoolfriend's parents when I was about 9 or 10 years old. A beautiful construction of Rosewood, with a mirror, metal trays to take wet brolleys, a compartment with a lift up lid where timetables got kept, (later used as a telephone table) and pegs to hang your coats and Dad's trilby (a style of hat).

How about putting the front door "on the sneck"? Pushing down the button to hold the tongue out on the latch so it wouldn't blow shut, also a way of locking it shut.

More words youngsters won't know:-
florin (10p now)
tanner (the old sixpence)
bob (now 5p)
copper (boiler for washing)
wringer (to squeeze water out of washing)
mantle (the glowing bit of the old gas light)
crone (ugly old woman)

I have an old book of Nursery Tales, (my Aunt's), where Cinderella is called Ashputtel and her step mother refers to her as a
Slut (a grubby and untidy woman). Means something a bit different now!

I'd never heard "run up a shutter" until I met my partner who has lived all of his life in the Doncaster area. He said it's been commonly used within his family as long as he can remember and that, several decades ago, the family originated in Eastwood, Notts so nobody's sure where the phrase came from.

Mamie

My granddaughters always laugh when I say, "that's a nice frock".

I love the word frock, I also like wireless!