old fashioned words.

In a guddle (mess or tangle)

Clearly our family is very old fashioned!

Crikey!

Roll Ons - not the under-arm deodorant but the Playtex version

I still use fanny fanackapan when I can't remember someone's name.

My mum used the expression you little madam too.

My nan would call us girls when being difficult, Fanny Fanackapan!!!!!

I often say Gosh. What about you silly eegit. TTFN. Swinging and grotty.

Lemon, I call my grand daughter (4) Madam sometimes. She thinks it's funny.

Has anyone mentioned ‘ghastly’ or ‘gosh’? My brother uses the former quite a lot, and I still use the latter, but I think both sound dated.

My dads favourites were ‘poppycock’ and ‘piffle’ amongst others

Slovenly- a big favourite of my father’s.

Spiffing

Good old fisticuffs
and a kerfuffle

'Chop,chop' used by FiL to mean 'get a move on'.

I called my DH a twerp today - where did I dredge that up from? (He admits he had been one too! )

Eiderdown
Gordon Bennett !
Antimacassa
Bottle of Tizer
Gobstopper

Larissa the hairdressers I use is called 'Beezneez'

Does anyone still have a scullery?

We use many of these words as a matter of course including poppycock and balderdash. As a family we just love interesting words and the DGC seem to be following in our footsteps. I am so pleased that they don't use the word 'like' every other word as many younger people do, it is infuriatingly lazy when people do so and even worse when they use swear words.

Love to hear something described as the 'bees knees'.

Liberty bodice.. my mum used to sometimes whisper it to us, and we thought it was really rude, although we never knew what it meant.

We danced The Gay Gordons not long ago silverlining (Burns Night in fact)

A charabanc outing to the seaside

Paper nylon

Brick ( as in ‘what a brick!’)
Good egg ( same meaning as a brick)
Old man ( said to a young man by another young man)
Antimacassar
Doilies

Humdinger

Lav ( as in loo)
Esquire
Madam
titfor ( hat, rhyming slang, tit for tat)
Drawers ( knickers)