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

love this thread, as there are things which remind me of my childhood, but then older things which remind me of my grandparents.
forty winks - my grandpa always used to have forty winks after lunch
spend a penny - my grandmother always used to say this if we were out or going out, and before leaving the house my auntie would always say ‘have you been’?
pull the other one (it’s got bells on)
rub it with a brick - my grandad’s inevitable response if you said you had a tummy ache

Bathers instead of swimming costume. I heard someone say it recently and I haven't heard anyone else use it since my nan when I was little!

“Heavy petting”

I mentioned to a (much older) friend recently about wearing petticoats as a child. It was relevant to the conversation. She was very quick to tell me that I was talking about a slip, and that I was wrong to call it a petticoat when it wasn't.

Bun in the oven, with child.

omg my dad used to call them goosegogs but I thought he'd made it up himself as ive never heard anyone else say it and dad was famous for making his own silly words up!

.. double posted

Three which thankfully have gone

spaz
hottentot
half caste (always used distainfully)

and one that still makes my teeth go on edge - slacks (frocks too I don’t hear anymore)

I grew up in the 70’s and heard the top 3 a lot ☹️

Ozone layer isn’t

Haha what??

Acid rain - a term you don’t hear anymore, but it was a buzzword in the eighties.

The term ozone layer is generally not still in use.

Oh really, what do you call it then?

Well I’d say that public discussion has shifted to talk about “climate change” and “global warming” more generally and so not specifically referencing the ozone layer.

I've thought of another - spiv. I used it at work about 15 years ago. (I'm only 40!) and had to explain what it meant!

Counterpane. There's a brilliant bit in a Bill Bryson book about a Counterpane.

I'm a(goose)gog about gooseberries. They sell them in tesco! And gooseberry fools, I've got one in the fridge!

Surely people still say 'slip', aren't 'slip dresses' quite the thing at the moment?

I'm adding 'quite the thing' to the list too

DGM used to say 'black as newgate's knocker' when things were dirty.

I ask 9yo DD if she's 'with us or with the Woolwich' and she rolls her eyes at me because she can tell it's uncool even though she doesn't understand it.

Scally
pedal pushers
sick (to mean good)
peak (to mean good)

When I was a student and in the early years of work I moved around a lot.

My grandfather always used to ask if I had ‘new digs’. Really haven’t heard that one since he died.

I still use spend a penny, although it’s now €1 where I am!

I have had to stop using a lot of Lancashire/Yorkshire/general northern sayings, because I moved far away, and they are unheard of around here! However, "Ey-up" seems to have stayed with me.

I get laughed at for saying, "The Picture House" (pictures/cinema), but... the place where I watched new films growing up was actually called, "The Picture House", so it stuck!

Chlorofluorocarbon. Such a ubiquitous word in the early 90s that I was made to learn to spell it at school. Now that they are no longer produced and illegal to supply or use in the UK, I doubt that my kids have ever even heard the word (and could much less spell it!)

Chesterfield instead of settee
baths not pool
pictures not cinema
chit (like a sort of receipt or stub wasn’t it)
getting off with/going out with
nightie
piece (as in a bread and jelly piece - ie a jam sandwich)
shows (referring to a travelling fairground type situation)
’front room’

Pop (rather than fizzy drink)

Here’s 10p , go call someone who gives a shit 😂

My kids laugh when i call my sofa a 'suite'....they had never heard it before.

Big Jessie
Scuzzie
Wonga
Spod

Baker days - for Inset days