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

Nice body, but her face .......

Oh thanks ..what a horrible expression though.👍

Stone the crows
Blimey

Dial up (internet in the old days)

I had the sloane ranger handbook

Latchkey Kids!

Usually aimed passive aggressively towards working mums who allowed their perfectly capable teenagers to let themselves into the house after school…

Totally right on eiderdown! And bonking and necking and running away with the milkman. Ragamuffin I still say.

An older girl at my school had a rat’s tail, which I haven’t seen since.

Gooseberries are I think much less common than they used to be — hard to buy in shops, and not many fools/yoghurts featuring them. Teacakes: I mean the bready kind that you slice and toast. I never see them any more but am sure they still exist. When I was a child I had one several times a week.

I still buy Horlicks sometimes, but it feels a bit retro.

Maybe some fabric words: flannelette, crimplene, drip-dry.

Also, I always thought it was bog off…

Bog off - go away. A step down from fuck off.

We used to call the pavement a coursey, or is it causy? I assume it was a corruption of causeway.
It could well be regional if you are in South Yorkshire because I was brought up in that area, a few miles from Doncaster.

My son rolls his eyes at me every time I call a baguette a 'French stick'! 😁
Just annoy him further my DH refers to 'avocado pears'.

Causey in North Derbyshire too! A Northern version of 'causeway'

I had to explain what a milkman was/is to my DD day before yesterday!!

Poseur.... he's such a poseur!

There is a sort of plant whose common name is, or was, a Wandering Jew. One day my elder sister (70+) who is keen on gardening was in a garden centre with her adult son and saw one and said "Oh look, a Wandering Jew" and he was horrified!

And, yes, Continental quilt.

On the subject of gooseberries....or goosegogs to me....you do not hear people referred to as gooseberries any more. I've just asked DS and he'd use 'third wheel'.

Sorry @Nosejobnelly I've just seen your earlier post!

Maybe some fabric words: flannelette, crimplene, drip-dry.

@namezchangez needlecord, winceyette.

Candlewick spread
Licking stamps
Tippex

I seldom hear anyone use the word "seldom".

Charlie’s dead

Candlewick spread had such an odd feel to it.

I live in the north east and we still say it alot here!

I always say French stick - baguette seems a bit poncey

DH said koala bear earlier, I believe it was deliberate just to annoy me. Well I hope it was otherwise he thinks koalas are bears and he will have to leave the house 🤔

My martial arts teacher called someone a fairy the other day 😮 and he's only mid-40s. Thought both the phrase and the sentiment had died out a good while back

Mine is "spastic". Sorry, I'm old.