Words You Don't Hear Enough Of In Modern-Day Use:

[Mr Kipling]

Codswallop

Sorry! Wrong category.

[Audio Al]

Gumption :)

[Mr Kipling]

Horrid. (My favourite at the moment.)

[Ali Tait]

Indubitably.

[gariusmacus]

excuse me (without sarcastic emphasis)
please
and thank you

[Firebottle]

Common sense :doh::scratch:

[Roy S]

Groat (it was a fourpenny coin)

[Ali Tait]

excuse me (without sarcastic emphasis)
please
and thank you

:lol: Indeed! Sorely lacking these days..

[Ali Tait]

Parsimonious.

[Kember]

Almost any sentence uttered by Boris Johnson?

[The Grand Wazoo]

Words You Don't Hear Enough Of In Modern-Day Use:
"Here ya go Chris, take this big pile of cash"

[Haselsh1]

Quaffing (of copious amounts of ale)

[walpurgis]

A serious illness used to be called 'the noxious humours', not a term you hear much these days. Even 'a touch of the collywobbles' is now old hat.

One term that is seldom used now is 'in the strictest confidence' all the politicians and the media now use the horrible Americanism, 'confidentiality'! Why butcher our language?

[MartinT]

Crikey.

[Alex_UK]

smorgasbord

[walpurgis]

Luvaduv!

[walpurgis]

Luvaduv! Spiffing (not Spliffing). :)

[MartinT]

Jolly good!

[Eremite]

Spiffing, old chaps!


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[DanJennings]

Gobbledegook

[prestonchipfryer]

Rankle. To annoy or mock.

John

[Alex_UK]

Found myself using "detritus" the other day to describe the mess my 11 month old left after tea time.

[seoirse2002]

okey dokey

[Kember]

urchin

[Tim]

curmudgeon is one of my favourite words . . . I wonder why :lol:

[seoirse2002]

rapscallion

[MartinT]

curmudgeon is one of my favourite words

:rfl:

[Mr Kipling]

Spifflicate

[Macca]

Whojamaflip

Thingimabob

Gadgee

Rozzer

[Mr Kipling]

Oojah-kapivvy

[Macca]

Dooburry

[Mr Kipling]

Doolally Tap

[Stratmangler]

Disgruntled.
Thinking a step further, if you're the opposite of disgruntled, does it mean that you are gruntled? :scratch:

[seoirse2002]

mind your own beeswax!

[Tim]

Dooburry
:lol: cracker, I love that one and still use it on occasion - normally as dooburry wotsit

[MartinT]

I always thought it was spelled something like doobrie but that's the problem with non-words!

[gariusmacus]

Groat (it was a fourpenny coin)

I prefer thruppeny bits :eyebrows:

[seoirse2002]

scallywag

[Audio Al]

Why do people say " Somethink "

Instead of the correct word " Something " :scratch:

[shane]

You'll enjoy this:

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/195348/18-obsolete-words-which-should-have-never-gone-out-of-style/

I particularly liked lunting, and I suspect that many people on this forum have experienced resistentialism

[Alex_UK]

Disgruntled.
Thinking a step further, if you're the opposite of disgruntled, does it mean that you are gruntled? :scratch:

And if a quiz is quizzical, then what is a test? :eyebrows:

[shane]

When you recover from being kicked in the quizzicles, are you combobulated?

[Rare Bird]

'Beggars Belief'

[Macca]

Rube

Codger

Pollarding

[Rare Bird]

Looking thru some of the posts maybe depends on where you come from cos i still use a lot of these..

[losenotaminute]

Salubrious (conducive to good health) and lagubrious (looking or sounding sad and dismal) don't get enough usage IMO.

[Mr Kipling]

Giddy

Cad & Bounder

Wassak

[Puffin]

Guttersnipe,

Hobbledehoy,

Ne'er do well.

[struth]

Humbug..(except at xmas)

Quine and Loon......a lass and lad in Aberdeen talk

[struth]

Humbug..(except at xmas)

Quine and Loon......a lass and lad in Aberdeen talk


discombobulated.....I like......combobulated I love!

[Straff]

Gormful. OK, it doesn't exist but like 'gruntled', logic says it should.

Cordwangle. Ask Sid.

My father used to hiss 'Stiffen the Prussian Guard!' when exasperated.

[Mr Kipling]

Nadgers

Ricketts

Odds Bodkins!

[Marco]

It has to be................................................ .................................................. .................................................. ..... PISHANTO!

Marco.

[Kember]

Gormful. OK, it doesn't exist but like 'gruntled', logic says it should.

Cordwangle. Ask Sid.

My father used to hiss 'Stiffen the Prussian Guard!' when exasperated.

My father-in-law regularly used the phrase "Steady the Buffs!" to suggest to someone they should contain their excitement or temper their reaction to something.

[Yomanze]

HiFi...

[pjdowns]

It has to be................................................ .................................................. .................................................. ..... PISHANTO!

Marco.

:lol:

[Beobloke]

Hullabaloo

Mither

[electric beach]

TROLLOP :eyebrows:

Are they dying out?

[The Grand Wazoo]

Flibbertyjibbet

[twickers]

Tickety boo.

[Mr Kipling]

Marmaduke.

Claptrap.

Rip Snorter.

[MartinT]

Claptrap.

I still use that!

[Alex_UK]

Found myself typing "the whole shebang" in an email yesterday and then another favourite - titivation. :)

[Mr Kipling]

Clack. As in: "Shut ya clack mate, or I'll shut it for ya."

Hip 'n' Happenin'.

Rotter.

[Alex_UK]

This thread must have had a subconscious effect on my vocabulary - just wrote "kerfuffle" in an email - no idea which far recess of my brain that one suddenly came from!

[Mr Kipling]

Spiffing!

Super!

Rissoles (Whatever happened to the Rissole?)

[Alex_UK]

On a roll today - just used "haranguing" though it took a few attempts to spell it correctly!

[Canetoad]

Why do people say " Somethink "

Instead of the correct word " Something " :scratch:

Or worse... Somefink!

How about Fair Dinkum or Bonza!

[gariusmacus]

Or worse... Somefink!

How about Fair Dinkum or Bonza!
" there aint nuffink wrong with saying sumfink" young tom the chimney boy explained to mrs wigginbottom the local pie purveyor.

sorry had to slip into my Dickensian prose :eyebrows:

[Canetoad]

"There was sumfink in the air tonight,
The stars were bright... Fernando"

Yeah, seems to work OK... :lol:

[Puffin]

Sissy

Gung-ho

Lavatory

Much obliged

[Roy S]

Malingerer (used it today in one of my staff's personal development reviews :lol:)

[Richard Kimber]

Antidisestablishmentarianism

[Marco]

Inside a lift, crammed full of people, where an acrid stench of expelled intestinal gas pervades.... You don't often hear the words, exclaimed with pride:

'Yes, it was ME who farted. I am the phut-meister!' :eyebrows:

Marco.

[Kember]

Malingerer (used it today in one of my staff's personal development reviews :lol:)
Roy,

On the same note - "scrimshanker"!

Peter

[Reffc]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[Kember]

Inside a lift, crammed full of people, where an acrid stench of expelled intestinal gas pervades.... You don't often hear the words, exclaimed with pride:

'Yes, it was ME who farted. I am the phut-meister!' :eyebrows:

Marco.

Marco,

Clearly this does not apply to the civilised folk here, but my 15 year old son will do exactly that, especially on a crowded tube, preceded by an appreciative sniff as if savouring an especially good first growth claret. And generally, just before he alights as the doors close.:lol: He's also very good at blaming the dog when both are sitting in the back of the car.

Peter

[Marco]

Lol, Peter... I applaud your son who is, quite clearly, a connoisseur! :D

Marco.

[Alex_UK]

My vocabularic (ok, I invented that one! :lol:) assault continues unabated without consciously thinking about it - just referred to an email attachment as being "gargantuan" :)

[Roy S]

Roy,

On the same note - "scrimshanker"!

Peter

Couldn't quite work that into today's PDRs but did use the word 'minutiae' more than once :D

[Kember]

Lol, Peter... I applaud your son who is, quite clearly, a connoisseur! :D

Marco.

Marco,

Passive and active, a connoiseur and a producteur, methinks!

Brings a tear to the old man's eyes (in more ways than one..)

I shall convey your compliments.:)

Peter

[twickers]

Rigmarole

[Rare Bird]

'propar hi-fi'

[Mr Kipling]

Vittals.

Hector.

Hornswaggled.

[Rare Bird]

'Spun Jabba'
Never heard anywhere in the UK except where i live

[Mr Kipling]

Tiffin.

Fadge.

Baffoon.

[Barry]

'Please', Thank you' and 'Excuse me'. :steam:

[Rare Bird]

Fadge.


Believe me i use that a lot

[seoirse2002]

right you be
and righty-ho

[pjdowns]

How about Pleaseant, I rarely hear this word used.

[MartinT]

I've never heard it used ;)