To ask for words and phrases you no longer say?

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Not really an AIBU, but I wanted a good list! DH and I were talking about words and phrases we used to say frequently as children in the 80s and which now we rarely use or hear. Some of these refer to things that no longer exist, or which have become rare, some have fallen out of fashion, some now seem tasteless or prejudicial. Would love to hear some more! (And doesn’t need to be from the 80s.)

ozone layer
polystyrene
crybaby
wicked (as a term of approval)
teacake
space race
Indian summer
gooseberries

Ha!

Corrugated cardboard - it’s all bubble wrap now.

My son came across it in a book and asked what it was. I tried to explain, and as we had an outbuilding with corrugated plastic roof on, used that as an example.

Beingthe excellent parent that I am (pfffrrrt!) I then asked him to give me a sentence with the word ‘corrugated’ in, so I could check his understanding. His response? ‘You know Jean at your work? She has a corrugated face.’

Going to the Pictures
now everyone seems to say cinema. My dad mid 70s used to call it the Flicks.

A bit none PC and I apologise but when i'd ask where mum was as a child the response would be "she's run off with a black man" 🤦‍♀️😯

Ipod
Bitchin’
Mofo
Bitch ass mofo
Spangles
Snazzy
Cockwomble
Louch
Bonny
Love (as in “Hiya love”)
Spanner (as an insult)

Oh, and I haven’t heard a good Wazzock or
Bonking recently. And Shag seems to dying out.

Making love
Snogging
Going out with

Plenty of homophobic slurs / anti sex postive statements about women that I won't repeat here

Tape a programme.
Tape a record.
The wireless.
One thing mentioned a lot in my childhood- liberty bodice. A thing of the past thank goodness.
Roll-on (elastic girdle with hanging suspenders.
Panty girdle.

Nitty gritty- as soon as I was told the origin of it and seem to still hear it everywhere

I still hear and say most of your list OP! Why would you not hear gooseberries or polystyrene anymore?

My votes for words that are rarely used these days would be:

bonking
necking
pictures (for the cinema)
groovy
combat trousers
transvestite
vegging out
bimbo
tape it (as in make a video recording form the TV)
personal stereo, ghetto blaster, hifi, records, cassette tape,
phwoar
scratter
knapsack
the box (for TV)

Piss off and naff off are the ones I miss most.

I still say Piss Off, Teacake, Polystyrene, Wazzock, Twonk. I still have a CD player and Dvd player!
Plenty of bouncy castles here (S Yorkshire)

One I haven't heard in years is coursey- pavement. That could be regional though.

I’m a teacher and I still take a playpiece to school 😂

Brilliant 🤣👏

'The blind leading the blind' - feels a bit wrong/ableist.

'Tranny'.

'Thong/g-string' - are they still a thing?

I heard gooseberry this morning when we were offered it as a jam to go with scones in a cafe. Polystyrene we use as tiny bits of it are washed up on our beaches after this wild weather we’ve had!

Anyone who never says teacake anymore needs more Tunnock's in their lives.

If it’s the explanation I think it is, it’s rubbish. It’s folklore, urban myth. Same with the supposed origin of ‘picnic’.

I came on here to say the same thing! When my 20 year old was a baby I started to say “you dirty little Arab” as I was wiping his face then stopped myself half way. It was something my grandma always said to us as kids and it wasn’t until then that I’d really thought about it!

I definitely still say teacake and gooseberry! (unless it's to describe a person maybe?) also wassock and wally. Quite often call DD a wally. Still say minging, it's a brilliant word.

Still say video - it's the name of the setting on my phone camera for a start, I don't know what else I'd call it? DDs school has a tuck shop.

I don't say plimsolls, which we lived in as kids. I don't know that last time I saw some actually!
Chinny reckon,
talk to the hand,
do I look bovvered,
whasuuup (in the style of the budweiser frogs!),
Chicken (as in scared)
Tight as in cool or friends, I say it now but I mean someone who doesn't spend money!

There's great soul record by Shirley Ellis ..The Nitty Gritty

"Male chauvinist pig" or variations on "chauvinist" were heard all the time on the soaps! Now they're just plain old misogynists, I expect.

"Skill" to mean cool. Some of my friends tried to get it into common parlance but it didn't really take off where I lived.

Prat, nit, etc

Xeroxing - for photocopying

Bum - mild expletive use, used in the Winter Olympics thread,and thought I haven’t heard that use for ages

nancy- boy - effeminate, gay *

poof - homosexual *

jobby - meaning poo (sorry, lowering the tone)

• it’s good we don’t use these phrases anymore

I say 'stop being a wet lettuce'😂

We got dd15 a cd player for Christmas. She loves it!