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NanKate Sun 28-Jun-26 20:59:19

Spondulix = money

Your turn.

seasider Wed 01-Jul-26 06:50:04

Courting

fancyflowers Wed 01-Jul-26 06:33:31

Anorak
Great coat ( often referred to in Jane Austen's time but never heard now).
Corsets
Shoe horn
Inkwell
Blue stocking

BoggledMind Tue 30-Jun-26 22:46:41

Wazzam

I have never heard this word again but I remember my Dad when I was very young calling me a 'little twerp'.
Hope it never had a bad meaning, I was always well behaved. Honest.

He was most likely saying it in a light-hearted way, as in "ya daft so-and-so". I doubt for one minute it will have been said with any malice whatsoever.

Which reminds me, I haven't heard 'daft 'apeth' for years. I heard it regularly at home as a kid.

Claretjan Tue 30-Jun-26 22:37:34

My mum used to say she was jiggered, meaning tired out.

Wazzam Tue 30-Jun-26 20:13:46

I have never heard this word again but I remember my Dad when I was very young calling me a 'little twerp'.
Hope it never had a bad meaning, I was always well behaved. Honest.

sodapop Tue 30-Jun-26 19:39:27

I lived on the coast as a child, we didn't say we were going to the beach but going on the sands.
Roll on was a girdle not a deodorant

Bukkie Tue 30-Jun-26 17:43:40

Gloryhole to me still means cupboard under the stairs.

shoppinggirl Tue 30-Jun-26 15:42:51

Cavorting! I used the word yesterday and my DH said it was such an old-fashioned word that no-one uses it anymore. I still find it quite descriptive!

NanKate Tue 30-Jun-26 15:35:09

Swinging and Dodgy

Calendargirl Tue 30-Jun-26 09:40:01

Parlour.

polomint Tue 30-Jun-26 08:45:28

Also saying a tranny meaning a transistor radio( in the eighties)

polomint Tue 30-Jun-26 08:43:44

To call someone a bean pole.. meaning they were very thin

polomint Tue 30-Jun-26 08:42:29

To call someone a square
Pullover..as in a jumper
Tank top..sleeveless jumper,woolen waistcoat

Ashcombe Tue 30-Jun-26 07:18:00

BlueBelle: I made exactly the same mistake in younger company a few years ago when I happened to say, “Everyone has a gloryhole!”
Cue much smirking and giggling from DS and DSIL2! And a distraught exclamation of, “Mum!” from DD2!

BlueBelle Tue 30-Jun-26 07:02:44

My grandkids nearly chocked on their food when I was talking about my Nans gloryhole Well I didn’t know then that it had a WHOLE new meaning.
I now would say ‘her cupboard under the stairs’ to avoid confusion with its new meaning

Thirdinline Mon 29-Jun-26 20:22:50

Twerp - I read it in a Stella Gibbons book recently and remembered my father using it, particularly on my brothers! Haven’t heard anyone actually say it in years.

JamesandJon33 Mon 29-Jun-26 17:11:47

Dunce
Nitwit
Nincompoop

Slacks
Fox fur

Pimmi Mon 29-Jun-26 16:16:59

Scallywag! I use that a lot

Bellanonna Mon 29-Jun-26 16:02:15

I still say righty-ho

Shel1951 Mon 29-Jun-26 15:57:40

Groovy

Maggiemaybe Mon 29-Jun-26 15:50:46

Oreo
Maggiemaybe
I asked for a bitter shandy the other day at a bar and the young barman hadn’t heard of a shandy. Turned out he didn’t know bitter either (and hadn’t got any). I feel so old.

😂
Ask for an old fashioned next time.

Blimey O’Reilly (another one). I’d have expected to get a whiskey cocktail if I’d asked for that. With Angostura Bitters, which have probably also left the bar. grin

AuntieE Mon 29-Jun-26 15:44:49

skedaddle
fantouche
slovenly

NittWitt Mon 29-Jun-26 15:35:09

Pernod & blackcurrant - asked for it in a bar recently and they'd never heard of Pernod.

Bellanonna Mon 29-Jun-26 15:33:50

Oh, my word

Sago Mon 29-Jun-26 15:33:02

Scoundrel, vagabond and a strange one my horrible narcissistic mother used………..guttersnipe.

Apparently it was what I was to become!