Words we don't use any more

No one buys a three piece suite any more

Here no one uses Sheilas for women anymore and no more Bruces for the men, either. Thank goodness. I think the use of ‘so’ at the start of a sentence is fading, another thank goodness.

We always called the cupboard under the stairs the glory hole because it had everything from the ironing board to Dad's toolbox stuffed in it. But my son nearly passed out with shock when I told him that I was pleased I'd got a glory hole at my new house. Apparently the meaning has changed.

Coal man
Steam roller

We used to call RN military lorries 'tillys' (from 'utility vehicle' apparently)
Come to think of it, lorries are nowadays mostly referred to as 'trucks'.

Portly.

We had rucksacks but they were pronounced Rooksacks. German ????
“Backpacks” now
(Although we must be of an age I have never heard Rooksack) My father had something called a Haversack - army origin I think.
Well-upholstered - of a Hyacinth Bucket-type figure
Wireless - meaning radio
Dialling a phone number
Bus conductor
London A-Z
Phone books

There must be many more!

Living in sin, which is what we did before we were married!

My mum used to say, “She runs to fat” meaning someone put on weight easily.
She also used to say someone was “blousy” or had “chocolate box looks”

My dad used to say toodle pip for goodbye and tickety boo for everything is alright. The bin men were dustmen, and we had rag and bone men. Also water from the tap was called corporation pop.

Words from our family: girdle, what a palaver, a nice pair of slacks, a nice costume, put your woollies on. Just a few there that sprung to mind.

I think there is a difference between words we no longer use because no one uses the item either - Liberty bodice, bottom drawer, eiderdown - and words where the item is still in use but one word for it is no longer used - pail, house coat, gamp.

I have one that is actually 2. We recently moved house and the house we moved into was superficially clean, but actually filthy, bathroom included. My reaction was to describe the late occupant as a 'slut' because in the past a slut was used in a generic term for a 'dirty' woman, whether her dirt was perceived as being in the house or sexually, but DD has told me that today the word 'slut' has only one meaning - and that is sexual.

My alternative was 'slattern', but that is also a word no longer used. so I now describe her as The Slob and wait in trepidation to be told that too has an inapproate meaning or has gone out of use.

My grandmother was well corsetted ! Wore her Sunday best. There was a cigarette box (wooden ) on the coffee table and a table lighter !

Trollop - one of my favourites!

TerriBull

Cheerio! I found a letter one of my grandmother's brothers wrote to her circa 1940s and that's how he signed off

At my junior school, saying Cheerio (commonly used back then) instead of goodbye was considered totally unacceptable! I found it very odd when a breakfast cereal apparently called Goodbyes came on the market...

I had a windcheater. It was covered in a rubbery substance - and a very unpleasant smell as the rubber started to rot.

Disused words:-

Toodle-Pip (goodbye)
Bees knees/cat's whiskers (something really good)
Doolally or Doolally Tap (Crazy)
Tranny (transistor radio as opposed to one with valves)
Record player

I still say pull the chain even though we have none
The clippie for the bus conductor.

I recognise all these words you've mentioned though don't use all of them.

We wore stockings before tights.
We had rucksacks but they were pronounced Rooksacks. German?

My mother had a fur coat! Imagine having one now.

Bounder.

Bosoms.
Nay, (Nay! And thrice nay!)

Cad
Scoundrel.

Well, I say pink, but they were a sort of flesh-coloured pinky beige colour

I remember duvets being called continental quilts when they first came out.
Twinset
Corset
Nylons
I remember the lovely shop with the lady who had a wall covered with small fitted wooden drawers which she would open to reveal pink corsets with dangling suspenders or packets of nylon stockings.

Sennight for a week. It’s a word I like but don’t use! I discovered that my Canadian cousins didn’t know the word fortnight, which brought it to mind.

Fie!

Went out centuries ago, literally!

Yes you are right ferry23 I suppose it's because my family also had a ladies gown shop. And yes, it sold ballgowns - which is what I call them still of course.

And I do still also say dressing gowns etc as you do.
And obviously those graduates at degree conventions will wear a gown.

In my head I was simply thinking of my father's ladies gown shop and his lovely stylish logo with Ladies Gowns

I was referring to the use of "gown: in that sense. I don't use it like that. And actually never have. My family business was definitely upmarket with lots of bride's mother outfits, formal and evening wear (and some millinery) but my father always said he was "in the rag trade".

I hated being the "shop front" whenever I went out anywhere. I suppose you would have had that too?

Bread and buppy
Meaning bread and butter, i think.
Or perhaps the bread was the buppy?

My dad used to say ‘Nice rig out’ (meaning nice outfit) His big jumpers were always ‘gansies’. The other day I read in a book the word fawn to describe light brownish yellow. I realised I hadn’t heard that word for ages. Maybe that’s just me!