Words we don't use any more

I am amazed at how many different words and phrases have come up on this thread. I never realised it was such a broad subject.

Thank you everybody.

Shel1951

Groovy

Groovy - ha ha, I had such a flash of Simon Dee (late sixties)
the dj and tv personality, this was his word, does anyone remember him, tall blonde hair, sticky out teeth, wore a
little neckerchief,
more confidence than discernible talent,

not the same as Groovin’ (Young Rascals)

misb

Corner boy (spivvy type)
penny chews
gutties (gym shoes)
thrupence ( a threepenny piece)
shipshape and Bristol fashion
daft as a brush
common Jimmy Rafferty
common as muck
Doorsteps ( big sandwiches , often made from the heels of a loaf) probably from children sitting on their front step eating them)
My Grandpa called ladies with a large bosom SS Majestic.

mosb -
you just triggered a memory, although I didn’t understand at the time, being a littley -
my grandad, when observing a lady with a small bum
described it as being ‘like two boiled eggs in a hanky’
or a larger more fluid, corsetless older lady,
‘like two little boys fighting under a blanket’

with a spinster sister who lived at the seaside
he insisted was so mean that
‘not even the tide would take her out’

One of my happiest memories as a child of 10
was sitting on the stone doorstep at my friend
Elizabeth’s house eating home grown lettuce
doorsteps, with home made bread and butter

I’m all nostalgic now.

Bit not bot

When asked what was for dinner my mother in law used to say par soup and tiggy winkle. And if something was dark it was as black as newkers knockers. I only know this because my DH told me. Oh and I wore a roll on until the welcome advent of tights because my mother told me my stomach muscles would droop. I weighed eight stone. What a passion killer they were! Perhaps a bot like a chastity belt!

Kate1949

Nit - as in you daft nit

My uncle used to call his sons “you great steaming nit!” whenever they did something wrong

Corner boy (spivvy type)
penny chews
gutties (gym shoes)
thrupence ( a threepenny piece)
shipshape and Bristol fashion
daft as a brush
common Jimmy Rafferty
common as muck
Doorsteps ( big sandwiches , often made from the heels of a loaf) probably from children sitting on their front step eating them)
My Grandpa called ladies with a large bosom SS Majestic.

MissAdventure

24Oldnproud,
I didn't even even know that putting emphasis on different parts of a word was/is "inportant" until I happened upon gransnet.

I wasn't taught it at school, and would be none the wiser.

Was it part of of your English lessons?

No, it wasn't part of my English lessons. But as a teenager in the '70s, English grammar was almost completely missing from my secondary education. I have to say, it makes me very angry when I look back on that now.
What little grammar I did learn at that stage came from teachers of other subjects. Most of what I have learned since has come from studying foreign languages at degree level, but I am sure there are still quite a few gaps in my knowledge.

It was certainly part of my English lessons.

24Oldnproud,
I didn't even even know that putting emphasis on different parts of a word was/is "inportant" until I happened upon gransnet.

I wasn't taught it at school, and would be none the wiser.

Was it part of of your English lessons?

Golly
Gosh
Goodness!

These have been replaced by much stronger curses. Shame really.

MissAdventure

I still say it, but I think I stress the last 'a'.

Shanks' pony.

I've never been quite sure if the two different pronunciations mean the same thing.

In my personal experience of them, the adjective 'harrassed', with the on the first 'a' was a synonym of 'flustered', whereas the stress on the second 'a' was slightly different, hinting more at the cause of the sensation than the result - not that the latter was in my vocabulary until Some Mothers Do Have 'Em' hit the screens in the '70s.

I still say it, but I think I stress the last 'a'.

Shanks' pony.

Or 'harrassed' with the stress on the first 'a', not the second?

Does anyone still say 'flustered?.

I can't remember the last time I heard it used (probably by my mum) , or used it myself.

By Jove! (One of my dad's favourite exclamations.)

MissAdventure

My mum's roll on was just around her hips and across her belly.
With straps on, for her stockings.

Yes the type my mum wore too. And when the little 'bung' on the suspender strap broke off she used an old button hooked through the loop.

Groovy

My mum's roll on was just around her hips and across her belly.
With straps on, for her stockings.

You don't hear of women wearing a roll on any more. Remember my mother wearing one; it was a bit like an elastic tube that she stepped into and sort of unravelled it until it covered her from her thighs to her chest. Must have been torture!

Rosie51

I always thought a smoking jacket looked very vulnerable to being spoiled by any dropped hot cigarette ash. Weren't they usually very fine fabric, not at all hardwearing?

#€_&-+

"Smoking" is the German word for a dinner jacket.

Until 30 years ago, you still heard older people referring to 50 pence as ten bob and £ 1.50 as 30 bob, and a 10 pence coin as a 2 bob bit. Rarely heard these after the nineties as the pre decimal money faded into a distant memory, until someone mentioned on an internet forum how they could have a really good night out in the early seventies for 30 bob.

When I started this thread I didn't realise how many interesting words and phrases had fallen by the wayside many of which I had never heard before. I am thoroughly enjoying reading all the various posts.

Oh dear, I say Gosh all the time, so I’m outdated.

How about choochy face, which people used to say to babies,

Another thing that has changed is common names for pets, dogs were called names like Rover, Maxi, Trixie, Flossie, Pickles, and cats were Fluff, Pusskins, Kitty rather than human names being the norm.

Moth62

Sitting there like cheese at fourpence
Copperin’ up (looking in your purse for the last few coins so you could pay)
As throng as Throp’s wife (throng meaning being busy)
It’s being so cheerful as keeps you going (from the show ITMA, I think)

Ooh, I'd completely forgotten the word 'throng'.
My grandma used to use it often, though I've never heard the expression 'as throng as Throp's wife'.