What words or phrases have you noticed you don't use any more.

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I said i had to go to the ATM at lunch time yesterday.
It occurred to me people used to refer to it as ' the hole in the wall' - well they did where I live.
I've not heard that expression in years!!!
Someone must have decided to stop using it!
I have also realised we don't say a child i with SEN is having a melt down but they are ' in crisis '

I find evolving language fascinating and like how things change and people adapt. It's not like there an announcement on News at 10 with clive Myrie telling us things like we don't use words like hole in the wall anymore! 😆

Dishy for good looking man
right dolly bird - I’m not sure on that one but I was described as this at 15/16 by someone’s grandmother from Lancashire
Berk- I use this
Twerp/Twit/Dweeb are all ones I use
in for a penny in for a pound
Minging to mean disgusting
I try to use words like twit instead of swears around my children and it’s fun to bring back the more innocent words.
eyes like piss holes in the snow

Yes, lots of chinny !!! Whilst rubbing the chin !!
but am I the only one who had ‘spam head’ for those with foreheads ! 😂

or slaphead!

Twos
Threes
Saves!

Sexual intercourse.

It sounds really old-fashioned now.

Bonked/boinked

I love the scene in Four Weddings where <forget her name> is under the table with the bridesmaid saying “bonked”

Or making love 🤮

Also “slipping up”.

”A bird slips up with a bloke one night. She knows when she has the nipper nine months on.”

“TV dinner”… when did that switch to “ready meal”?

My god, that’s revolting. 🤮

To grass on someone

Ally. I'm not anymore.

Spod

Chav (as verb, meaning to steal)

How do you do?

People used to say "Having it off" for having sex

I haven’t heard “on no account” for a long time.

Rowan Atkinson said it a lot. “On no account say Macbeth to the actors, Baldrick.”

In a sketch instructing soldiers what to do when meeting a singing pacifist: “On no account try and sing back!!”

@ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews what do you say now? It was always shagging screwing or riding when I was young. I absolutely hate the term f*ing relating to sex.

And nookie!

If kids nowadays saw an old clip of Nookie Bear on YouTube, they'd just think it was a cute, quirky, made up name for a toy bear - they wouldn't have the faintest idea that it was meant to be rude!

We used to call them the ‘rozzers’ 😁.

Also 'bonking' and 'how's your father'!

I love the word 'rozzers'!

It's annoying that they don't know the emergency number for their own country; but does 911 work here as well? I know that 112 - the number they use in much of Europe - automatically re-routes to 999 when called in the UK.

L7 and square

At Northern soul all niters..it was the DS .. drug squad.

I taught my Polish friend some Cockney rhyming slang, and hearing her say ‘dog and bone’, and ‘Bobby Moore’ never fails to entertain me.

She tried to teach me Polish, and man alive, i was terrible at it.

I just say ‘sex’ usually.