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

I’ve become a bit obsessed with Call the Midwife and have started all over. I notice they never say someone is pregnant , but are “ in the family way “ . Currently in 1962!

Skyping - ie making a video call - not that long ago really, and now completely obsolete

Phonograph
Doodlebug
Horseless carriage
Telegram

My.mum used to say you're either in or out, you're like a wandering *. 😱. Definitely not PC and not something I'd ever say.

Eiderdown
Continental quilt

I still say ‘piss off’

Ladette!

Gooseberry is ‘third wheel’ now!

Someone being described as ‘a vegetable’ when they’re in a vegetative state.

Wally
Yuppie
Walkman
Wicked (meaning good)

Also SY and I still say most of the things on listed so far. I never use coursey but I do say coursey edge for kerb.

Sayings I haven’t heard in ages are things like get stuffed, stuff off, shut your neck, stop mithering, tonguing/frenching for snogging, cock of whichever place you lived in for someone that was good at fighting, manking (always used to get asked by grandparents if I was manking yet 😂.

I tell the cat to naff off regularly! 😂

Why don't you say gooseberry or teacakes anymore?
Gooseberry crumble is delicious as are toasted teacakes I had one yesterday! I don't think either are particular words from the 90s.

Naff off reminds me of Norman Stanley Fletcher of porridge.
Naff off Godber.

What's manking?

Divvy is still used all the time in the northeast! 😂

Like wandering what? Never heard this.

I always presumed it meant heavy petting. 🤣🤣🤣 I never clarified. I’d usually get asked if I was manking yet, I’d say what and look confused and then they would ask if I had a boyfriend yet. They were 60 years older than me so I was never actually certain what it involved. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

It’s a Jewish slur I think.

Tomboy to describe little 'non-girly' girls

A reverse one, queer was like a swear word/insult but seems to have been revived with a positive meaning

Queer is still a slur for a lot of gay men who lived through the era of gaybashing and paranoia over AIDS. It's by no means universally accepted as a positive word.

My Mum uses queer in its original sense of not quite right, bit odd or unexpected. I doubt many people nowadays use the old phrase 'queer the pitch'.

Spinster - unmarried woman
Old maid - unmarried woman
Scallywag badly behaved
Hobbledehoy - clumsy
Ragamuffin - someone in ragged clothes
Ingrate - ungrateful person
Any Tom Dick or Harry - a random
Two fingers the same length - dishonest

Words we all used a lot when I was a kid/teenager but I never hear my teen say:

Manky
Skanky/skank
Scabby
Snog
Gross
Talking about 'fancying' someone
Boffin
Frigid
Mega
Wicked
Townie
Grunger
Minger/minging
Calling someone who was uncool/badly dressed/smelly a 'bin digger' (never heard anyone else mention this so perhaps that was a local thing)

Counterpane
carpet sweeper
mangle

Do people still say ‘divvy’ it out, as in divide it up and hand it out. .

Round my way the running off was quite specifically to London too!