Words you don’t often see now.

Courting

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

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.

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

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.

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

Gloryhole to me still means cupboard under the stairs.

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!

Swinging and Dodgy

Parlour.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

Dunce
Nitwit
Nincompoop

Slacks
Fox fur

Scallywag! I use that a lot

I still say righty-ho

Groovy

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.

skedaddle
fantouche
slovenly

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

Oh, my word

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

Apparently it was what I was to become!