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

Spend a penny lol imagine that today for going to the toilet 😂

Give me a tinkle later (phone call)

Fathead, bozo, dipstick. Futurist haircut.
May I get down please leave the table.

I passed through Sloane Square on the underground the other week and it occurred to me I hadn’t heard the term ‘Sloane Ranger’ for a long while.

Nitty Nora
Bonkbuster
courting
getting your legover
Bimbo/himbo
scrumping
scratter

It was ‘ran away with a sailor’ for me 😂

This one's a bit sensitive re suicide, apologies in advance.

My mother, in an effort to encourage stoicism I suppose, used to say 'you can get used to anything except hanging'.
I stopped saying it after someone I know lost a relative by that means.

The single most common thing I call our cat is fathead.

Do people still talk about Yuppies and Dinkies? IIRC:

Young Upwardly Mobile something or other
Double Income No Kids

Sunday Best.
Reverse the charges
Telephone directory, Yellow Pages, Thomson Local
Pools - do they still exist?
Personal column
Girl Friday (job title)
Dictaphone

I vote to bring back nincompoop

I do too! And the pictures when I’m going to watch a film at the cinema.

It was 'ran away with a black man' when I was growing up 😮

'Side' for channel. Eg talking about a programme on TV, 'which side is it on?'

I still say chinny reckon because I wish it was still in use. Conveys so much in two words😁 also Ponce is a word I haven't heard for years, seems to have been taken over by cocklodger

Bag off…
my first boyfriend age 12 asked if I would bag off with him behind the shopping center after he bought a bottle of body shop white musk perfume.
I was sold… 😂

We had cop off. Never heard bag off

Knee trembler!
Sits Vac in the local paper
Chicken in the basket

I vividly remember someone using this phrase the first time I met my ex DH…

Indeed!

I have a box of plain chocolate ones on the go as well speak

Courting - as in having a bf/gf. Often heard from older relatives when I was growing up, for example, "Darren is courting".

Reminds me of Princess Anne

Deserted Wife (a term in Ireland I remember from the 80s if the husband ran off on the family, I think there was a deserted wife allowance too)

i remember it recently as someone asked me about being unmarried with kids! It was as if we’d flashed back several decades!

So is froggy👍😁 as in the song.

Ace
wazzock
wally
dip stick

Want any from an American?

Schizophrenic (as a noun)
Ghetto (as in, “that name is really ghetto”)
Mentally retarded (this was the correct term in the ‘90s)
Manwhore
Butterface

Tea cakes?? Gooseberries???… both live and well in my freezer…(if that’s not a bit contradictory)

What's butterface?