Underused but delightful, descriptive words

Esmay I say frock instead of dress, also scent instead of perfume.

I like schlep.

Jamesandjon33 .
I know , but I included it , because I love it !
I never hear it in England .
Grandma used very few Welsh words .
I don't think that she knew many .
Her parents disapproved of the Welsh language .

I also really love Yiddish words and use them a lot . They are so colourful and expressive .
My Jewish friends aren't allowed to use them at home as it's considered to be slang .

Esmay Cwtch may be a delightful word, but it is certainly not underused. Here in Wales everywhere and spoken often.

Snickersneeze

Cad, bounder, foppishness.

Cwtch
Antimacassers
Spills
Firedogs
Cruet
Condiment
Eau de nil - pale green
Bodkin
Bolster
Chamber pot
Frock
Carpet slippers
Liberty bodice
Eiderdown
Candlewick
Casement
Windfalls - apples and pears and none wasted .
Trumpery
Strumpet
Furbellows
Flibbertigibbet
Poppycock
Piffle
Kerfuffle
Gobbledegook
Rillets - all the leftovers minced , shaped into patties and fried . So it was Thursday .

An endless list of Grandmaisms .

And I could tell which day of the week it was by what was on the table .

kerfuffle

peccadillo

liverish

gerrymander

Tomfoolery!

My mum always said "five and twenty".
I really like that, but when my grandson moved in, I realised he couldn't tell the time on my clock, with it's Roman numerals.

He had simply never come across a clock like that before.

My grandmother said, ‘five and twenty to (or past) the hour’
She called our long socks ‘stockings’ and my brothers’ shorts ‘knickers’
My mother in law called petticoats ‘underskirts’ but even ‘petticoat’ is archaic now.

Botheration.

I came out with “irksome” recently - my husband fell about laughing and hasn’t let me forget the word since!

Codswallop.

Wash- house. We have one . It isn’t as posh or modern as a utility room but very useful for drying clothes on the “pulley line” and washing flower pots etc in the Belfast sink plus where the freezer and washing machine live.

Shilly shallying

porlocking

Parlour.

SORES

Glorianny!
Oil of Wintergreen ointment! Zambuk !
I bought a teeny tiny tin of it from Savers,
because it reminded me of my long gone Gran who applied
it as a cure all, a powerful eyewatering smell.
Now I’m all nostalgic, reminiscing, thanks.

For me it's always linked with my brother who played rugby at school. He reeked of it on Saturday evenings after some injury.

Glorianny!
Oil of Wintergreen ointment! Zambuk !
I bought a teeny tiny tin of it from Savers,
because it reminded me of my long gone Gran who applied
it as a cure all, a powerful eyewatering smell.
Now I’m all nostalgic, reminiscing, thanks.

wintergreen
ointment

Never knew what the first meant.
And now we only seem to have lotions and creams.

onerous

Yes, Maccasser oil was used by men as hair oil in the Victorian period. Maccasser is a town in South Africa which gave its name to the oil.