Words you don’t often see now.

Since I’ve just seen it in a novel*, ‘nlest’.

*A Penelope Lively one, written a few decades ago.

Lest! I don’t know where the ‘n’came from.

'in a jiffy'. An American friend of mine was surprised I used the word 'whilst'.

Bobby socks
Brothel creepers / beetle crushers

Thus .
Spell check didn't know it but is getting the idea now.

Thrice and even Twice seems to be dwindling.

Greenfinch

Housecoat. When I looked up the definition AI described a dressing gown but this is not what it was.MiL had one that was far more practical than a dressing gown and was worn over clothes (a bit like an overall with buttons)to do household jobs. Perhaps she made it herself?

I always thought a housecoat was a quilted nylon version of a dressing gown. With buttons.

A really old one - ‘placket fastener’.

My maternal GM once told me that she’d stopped ‘walking out’ with a particular young man, because, ‘…he tried to get his hand down my placket fastener!’ 😂

Witzend

A really old one - ‘placket fastener’.

My maternal GM once told me that she’d stopped ‘walking out’ with a particular young man, because, ‘…he tried to get his hand down my placket fastener!’ 😂

The mind boggles😁

Splendid!
When did you last hear or see that word?

Jolly
Jaunty

Oreo

Splendid!
When did you last hear or see that word?

My son uses it!

He also says marvelous 😂😂

😂
Bless his little cotton socks

Took grandson 5 to the pictures for the first time. He was puzzled because the auditorium wasn’t like a picture gallery, asked where all the pictures were. Older brother 8 said, “Just sit down there and be amazed!

Bluebell said "I now would say ‘her cupboard under the stairs’ to avoid confusion with its new meaning".

My daughter would say the cupboard under the stairs 'has the decorators in' (for a female monthly event)!