[News] Old fashioned words you use

[alanfp]

Indicators. Or turn signals here in the Colonies. They appear to be optional extras on horseless carriages here.

Shirley you mean "trafficators"?

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I used the word Flummoxed during a work conversation yesterday and received blank looks from several who had never heard it before.

 

[METALMICKY]

'Flibbertigibbet' - I think I've been using this old expression wrongly. Supposedly it's someone prone to gossipy chatter or talkative person. I've always used in relation to a lady of questionable morals . My modern fave now being " dirty little sausage wallet "!

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

If nothing else, it could make for a pretty decent crime drama.

Would probably end up being on Channel 3 though.

Turns out, I still occasionally refer to ITV as Channel 3, on the basis that it was the third of the four channels.

 

[clapham_gull]

One Nation Tory

 

[schmunk]

'Flibbertigibbet' - I think I've been using this old expression wrongly. Supposedly it's someone prone to gossipy chatter or talkative person. I've always used in relation to a lady of questionable morals . My modern fave now being " dirty little sausage wallet "!

What are these conversations you're having, and who with...?

 

[Flounce]

A phrase rather than a word

Steady the buffs

I think I might start shouting this at matches when we should be game managing the last few minutes

“There’ll be wigs on the green” was a phrase my mother used as a threat if I didn’t stop doing something she disapproved of.

 

[dolphins]

Sure some of these others have mentioned but too many pages of fine words for me to work through this morning!

Here's some of my regulars:

Malarkey (most recently used this morning in a work email)
Taped (when recorded on the VM Tivo box etc)
Okey-dokey
Git (used yesterday on another thread here!)
Gubbins
TTFN

 

[WATFORD zero]

Sure some of these others have mentioned but too many pages of fine words for me to work through this morning!

Here's some of my regulars:

Malarkey (most recently used this morning in a work email)
Taped (when recorded on the VM Tivo box etc)
Okey-dokey
Git (used yesterday on another thread here!)
Gubbins
TTFN

I use Malarkey, Taped and Okey-dokey, but TTFN always seems a bit too 70's DJ to me (and we don't want to go there)

 

[bristo]

I still use ‘a lick and a promise’ (which doesn’t mean what you might expect…or indeed hope for). Anyone else use it?

 

[oneillco]

'Flibbertigibbet' - I think I've been using this old expression wrongly. Supposedly it's someone prone to gossipy chatter or talkative person. I've always used in relation to a lady of questionable morals . My modern fave now being " dirty little sausage wallet "!

Your "modern fave" expression will be very handy for anyone meeting you to know that they should immediately terminate the conversation.

 

[Bodian]

I used the word Flummoxed during a work conversation yesterday and received blank looks from several who had never heard it before.

How apt!