Words from a past generation

Blooming as an adjective.
Super
Smashing
Knickers ( not pants)

'Flicks' as an alternative to 'the pictures'
A 'pullover' became a 'tank top' in the 1970s. What is it now?
A 'chap' might be referred to as a 'bod'.
Most of us still refer to our weight in stones rather than kilos

A lot of cockney rhyming slang is becoming obsolete now.
No point telling anyone you've got to go and have an Eartha anymore!

Petticoats
Liberty bodices
Pinnies

Chewbacca

I remember them all, what was the purpose of a liberty bodice? Was it just for extra warmth?

I would understand glory hole. But eartha?
My mum used to talk about being gay and carefree.
Super and fab were common in my youth.
Braw in Scotland.
Nigel Molesworth was popular with his outrageous spelling and down with skool, ghastly, utterly wet and a weed

Had to explain to a 12 year old why I was popping of to spend a penny !!!

I'm fairly sure that I had a liberty bodice on top of my vest after I'd had pneumonia in the very cold winter of 46/47. Suspenders could be attached to it to keep up my (utterly ghastly) lisle stockings.

Penny just dropped about what rhymes with Eartha Kitt

Full of Piss and vinegar

Sh#t eatin' grin

Something is rotten in Denmark

Colder than a witch's ..

For those who still think a glory hole is a cupboard full of rubbish, usually under the stairs.
“A glory hole is a hole in a wall, or other partition, often between public lavatory cubicles or adult video arcade booths and lounges, for people to engage in sexual activity or observe the person in the next cubicle while one or both parties masturbate”. Wikipedia
Who’d have thought it??

Oh dear !I must be careful not to use that expression again !

Cheerio!

How dare they hijack our good old expressions!
Ah well they are lost on me. A glory hole will always be a cupboard stuffed full of miscellanea.
I'd better put on my liberty bodice and lisle stockings.
My DMiL was humiliated a few years ago when her suspenders set off the airport security alarm.

I use oh my giddy aunt and oh my goodness all the time especially on FB, young ones probably LOL.
When GD stays I often ask her if she wants to play her records, listen to music her fave is a picture.

Face, for goodness sake

Spiffing... crikey.... tickety boo... wireless.. and my tradmark "Lawks !"

Disco
LP
Pictures

Gordon Bennett - is an expletive I use regularly, amongst others !

Good grief!
Crikey!
Blimey!
Flippin heck!
Gordon Bennett!
Knickers. (for both male and female underpants.)
Records (including "LP").

Foxglove My father used o as that he had a bone in his leg and mother said, “Up wooden hill and down sheet Lane”.

Good grief
Pinny
Pictures (Cinema)
Little Faggot (as in little bundle for Gkids )
Skidaddle
Box (TV)
Born in a barn
Bloke

I reduced my grandsons to fits of giggles when I said “it gives me the willies” and promptly got told off by their mum, who was also trying not to laugh!

Here in Devon we say dimpsy for when the sun goes down.
I say ‘records’ instead of CDs.
How about ‘slacks’ for trousers? Does anyone ever say that?
I said someone was ‘A Job’s comforter ‘ recently and nobody understood.

Had the grandkids staying last week and one came down in the morning without combing his hair. I said "you look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards!" . He said "what does that mean gran?" .