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Words you don’t often see now.

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NanKate Sun 28-Jun-26 20:59:19

Spondulix = money

Your turn.

AGAA4 Mon 29-Jun-26 08:04:40

My two sons looked puzzled when I said 'nowadays'.
Super. I haven't heard that for a while.
Fellow. Chap . Geezer. Bloke.These seem to have gone now as everyone is a guy.

NittWitt Mon 29-Jun-26 08:14:23

How do you do?

hoomee29 Mon 29-Jun-26 08:29:12

right-oh!

TheWeirdoAgain60 Mon 29-Jun-26 08:32:58

Flabbergasted! -Utterly shocked!

Discombobulated - Completely confused!

Padstow13 Mon 29-Jun-26 08:47:31

I grew up using the words "Golly gosh!" when I was genuinely surprised at something - but, one fine day, someone sternly pointed out that the Golly bit was highly reprehensible.

Then the 'friendship', such as it was, collapsed on the day I pointed out that she was holding her knife like a pencil.

Tra la!

NittWitt Mon 29-Jun-26 08:56:52

A lot of apparently innocent expressions had reprehensible origins.
Quite right to correct her on cutlery! 😁

At work, a few years ago, a young woman didn't know what a dozen was.

Witzend Mon 29-Jun-26 09:18:29

Flibbertigibbet
Floozie
(two of my favourites)

rapscallion
cad and bounder!

Georgesgran Mon 29-Jun-26 09:22:19

Blimey - I’m still using most of these!!

Trollop is one of my favourites.

Maggiemaybe Mon 29-Jun-26 09:26:22

I asked for a bitter shandy the other day at a bar and the young barman hadn’t heard of a shandy. Turned out he didn’t know bitter either (and hadn’t got any). I feel so old. grin

Oreo Mon 29-Jun-26 09:54:42

NittWitt

A lot of apparently innocent expressions had reprehensible origins.
Quite right to correct her on cutlery! 😁

At work, a few years ago, a young woman didn't know what a dozen was.

Or a baker’s dozen 😁

Oreo Mon 29-Jun-26 09:55:29

Maggiemaybe

I asked for a bitter shandy the other day at a bar and the young barman hadn’t heard of a shandy. Turned out he didn’t know bitter either (and hadn’t got any). I feel so old. grin

😂
Ask for an old fashioned next time.

Oreo Mon 29-Jun-26 09:57:37

Goodness me! Which has been ditched in favour of F**k by anyone under 50.

SueDonim Mon 29-Jun-26 14:24:24

Fortnight. It’s two weeks now.

Twice, which has become two times as in ‘I went to the supermarket two times today.’

I think I’m obsessed with the number two. grin

Nannee49 Mon 29-Jun-26 15:22:26

Scram....recent crossword clue otherwise long consigned to the lexicon of schooldays

Sago Mon 29-Jun-26 15:33:02

Scoundrel, vagabond and a strange one my horrible narcissistic mother used………..guttersnipe.

Apparently it was what I was to become!

Bellanonna Mon 29-Jun-26 15:33:50

Oh, my word

NittWitt Mon 29-Jun-26 15:35:09

Pernod & blackcurrant - asked for it in a bar recently and they'd never heard of Pernod.

AuntieE Mon 29-Jun-26 15:44:49

skedaddle
fantouche
slovenly

Maggiemaybe Mon 29-Jun-26 15:50:46

Oreo
Maggiemaybe
I asked for a bitter shandy the other day at a bar and the young barman hadn’t heard of a shandy. Turned out he didn’t know bitter either (and hadn’t got any). I feel so old.

😂
Ask for an old fashioned next time.

Blimey O’Reilly (another one). I’d have expected to get a whiskey cocktail if I’d asked for that. With Angostura Bitters, which have probably also left the bar. grin

Shel1951 Mon 29-Jun-26 15:57:40

Groovy

Bellanonna Mon 29-Jun-26 16:02:15

I still say righty-ho

Pimmi Mon 29-Jun-26 16:16:59

Scallywag! I use that a lot