Words we don't use any more

MissAdventure

Casey's court was the saying for chaos in our house.

Yes! that was another of my mum's numerous sayings

Yep! Spuds.

A tide mark! I’d forgotten about those! Along with “you could grow potatoes behind your ears”

As black as Newgits knocker for something dirty - usually my neck because i had a tide mark round where I'd not washed it properly.

Casey's court was the saying for chaos in our house.

Moth62

A chaotic situation was “like Fred Karno’s circus”
Or if a place was busy it was “like Piccadilly Circus in here”
Lots of lights left on meant it was”like Blackpool illuminations”

Lots of lights left on for Londoners was always 'like Crystal Palace' which is strange as it burned down in 1936, so most people had no memory of it, it being in a state of disrepair for years before that..

Its like wookey hole in here (if there was a speck out of place)

A chaotic situation was “like Fred Karno’s circus”
Or if a place was busy it was “like Piccadilly Circus in here”
Lots of lights left on meant it was”like Blackpool illuminations”

Chiropodists seem to be known as podiatrists now

Air hostesses and stewardesses are now flight attendants

Rocketstop2

Blousey !!! A brash woman

I always understood the word to be "blowsy" and that it means showy but past its prime, like an overblown rose.🤷‍♀️

Blousey !!! A brash woman

MickyD

Great Scott!
Good grief!
Pantry
Scullery
Motor car
Slacks
Frock
Stockinged feet
My grandparents used these.

Oh dear I'm often heard declaring "Good grief" and I do like a nice summer frock.

I'm beyond saving

Aerodrome
I loved snollygoster.

Pantry and petticoat 😃

I’ve just bought a card for a good friend which says “Friendships must be built on a solid foundation of inappropriateness, alcohol, sarcasm and shenanigans”.
I love the word “shenanigans”, describes what we used to get up to down to a T 😄.

Bathers for swimming costume

“Britches” for knickers.
“Jitty” for the alley between houses.
“Slormed-up” - badly applied makeup.

Grizzling for crying.

Mamie

My granddaughters always laugh when I say, "that's a nice frock".

I love the word frock, I also like wireless!

I'd never heard "run up a shutter" until I met my partner who has lived all of his life in the Doncaster area. He said it's been commonly used within his family as long as he can remember and that, several decades ago, the family originated in Eastwood, Notts so nobody's sure where the phrase came from.

How about a Hall Stand? Anybody but me still got one of those? I remember my folks buying this one off a schoolfriend's parents when I was about 9 or 10 years old. A beautiful construction of Rosewood, with a mirror, metal trays to take wet brolleys, a compartment with a lift up lid where timetables got kept, (later used as a telephone table) and pegs to hang your coats and Dad's trilby (a style of hat).

How about putting the front door "on the sneck"? Pushing down the button to hold the tongue out on the latch so it wouldn't blow shut, also a way of locking it shut.

More words youngsters won't know:-
florin (10p now)
tanner (the old sixpence)
bob (now 5p)
copper (boiler for washing)
wringer (to squeeze water out of washing)
mantle (the glowing bit of the old gas light)
crone (ugly old woman)

I have an old book of Nursery Tales, (my Aunt's), where Cinderella is called Ashputtel and her step mother refers to her as a
Slut (a grubby and untidy woman). Means something a bit different now!

One of my grandsons is Albert George - known as Bertie.

One of my grandfathers, born in 1879, was Edward, known as Ned. An uncle of my husband's, born between the wars, was Ted. Now Edward is Ed or Eddie.

A great thread!
My contribution is to say that the short versions of men's names like Bob, Dick, Jim, Bill, have been replaced by Rob, Rick, Jamie, Will.
And the short names like Alfie, Jack, Harry have become given names, more common than Alfred, John, Henry. I'm sure there are others. Archie?

Mothers ruin - gin