Words we don't use any more

A bounder and a cad!

Scaramouche, Shilly Shallying.!

Blithering (idiot)

'Snogging'... that's a good one Miss A !!!

Courting, snogging.

Bonnet
Bloomers (my mother wore them)
Twist dress
Whitsy (Whitsuntide) best (clothes)
Courting
Foreign muck (my mother again, meaning garlic and anything that wasn't cabbage)

Boadicea

Gran22boys

Twit or twerp
Daft isn’t used much now either
Gribbles (bits of batter when you buy fish & chips.

What you called gribbles (I love that word!) we call scrumps.

I call them scraps😄

Pandemonium

Also mithered, mithering and mither

Nithered. I only remember my Grandmother saying that though.

Gran22boys

Twit or twerp
Daft isn’t used much now either
Gribbles (bits of batter when you buy fish & chips.

What you called gribbles (I love that word!) we call scrumps.

Twit or twerp
Daft isn’t used much now either
Gribbles (bits of batter when you buy fish & chips.

Spiv

Oops, just saw counterpane and nylons

Great thread, thank you Magenta... haven't managed to read it all so apologies if I'm repeating words that have already featured...

Counterpane
Winklepickers
Clodhoppers
Nylons (=stockings)

Nanny27

jacjacky i know the word 'lairy' to be used as slightly drunk

And loud, perhaps aggressive.

Nylons. Gymslips. School satchels.

Crimplene

jacjacky i know the word 'lairy' to be used as slightly drunk

Lairy is still used quite a bit here.
Also about people getting lairy: gobby in other words.

Showing off - sulking, having a tantrum.

Lino - flooring
Big Girls Blouse - my Dad ?
No Shenanigans - no rumpy pumpy

I used a word just now, lairy, as in ‘her outfit is very lairy’, as some of mine were years ago according to my Dad.

Thinking back to my nursing days in the 70’s and the white hospital counterpanes . Patients were allowed to smoke in their beds back then 😳

Student nurses were scolded by the ward sister if they didn’t remember to lay a towel across the bed to rest the ash tray and prevent cigarette ash drifting onto the white counterpane. It seems unbelievable now!

I think I remember that dressing gowns were also made of candlewick

I thought a bedspread was a thin decorative cover to make the bed look nice, and a counterpane was a padded eiderdown type thing that sat on top of the bed. I’m only going by what my grandparents called things in the days of candlewick bedspreads and patterned counterpanes though. I haven’t seen anything candlewick for donkeys years.