[News] Old fashioned words you use

[alanfp]

flimflam

.. but only ever in the phrase "that's just marketing flimflam". It's surprising how often I find it appropriate, though!

 

[loz]

i am told that duvet is what I call a Eiderdown ?

 

[backson]

i am told that duvet is what I call a Eiderdown ?

No, that’s a Continental Quilt.

 

[Comrade Sam]

I still call trans women women.

 

[Coalburner]

Have a butch at that

Butcher's

 

[Coalburner]

JOEY
a term of affection for those of a certain vintage

Also an old nickname rot the pre decimal threepeny bit

 

[backson]

I find that threads discussing old fashioned words are ten-a-penny. (That was a favourite of my Granddad's, that one)

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Codswallop
God's Teeth!
Dumbledore (the bee not the Harry Potter character)
Twitten
Jack and Harry (bread and cheese)
Larboard (instead of port side)
Stap me vitals!

 

[loz]

Codswallop
God's Teeth!
Dumbledore (the bee not the Harry Potter character)
Twitten
Jack and Harry (bread and cheese)
Larboard (instead of port side)
Stap me vitals!

I use Gods struth ?

I used to live near a twiten in East Grinstead ( Bramble Twitter I think )

 

[Normal Rob]

Spiffing is a fave of mine.

Spiffing stuff.

 

[METALMICKY]

Banjaxed as in something is ' ruined ' or ' broken '.

 

[Weststander]

Kerfuffle

 

[shingle]

lolling about

 

[vegster]

Parsimonious

 

[Canfan]

Up with the lark. I used this phrase the other day and the youngsters looked at me as though I was doing card tricks for a dog.

 

[London Irish]

Drinking pints of whiskey, Mark McGhee

 

[Valencia Seagull]

Instead of salary I like to refer to my monthly stipend (yes I realise that a stipend has a slightly different meaning)

 

[Valencia Seagull]

I also refer to the contents of fridge or larder as comestibles

 

[fly high]

I still say 'power cut' not the new Yankee 'power outage'. Really gets my goat.