Words you don’t hear much these days

[Steve Miller]

I’ll start:

Davenport

[RealPlayer]

Percolator

[ShiroKuro]

Cassette tape

[RealPlayer]

Actually, cassette tapes are making a small comeback.

[AndyD]

Gusset

[Daniel]

Salad days.

Learned in HS and never heard used IRL.

[Steve Miller]

Chiffarobe

[Bernard]

@AndyD As someone who sews and knits, I hear or read 'gusset' all the time.

[AndyD]

As a child it was a word seen describing the reinforced area of ladies knickers (and has a rather amusing sound)

Coincidentally I had a chiffarobe in my bedroom, a new term for me, as we simply called it my wardrobe.

[ShiroKuro]

@Daniel said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Salad days.

Learned in HS and never heard used IRL.

I always thought “salad days” was the weirdest term, and like Daniel, I don’t know that I’ve heard it used in IRL. So I just googled it now, and I have to confess, if I ever knew that it comes from Shakespeare, I had forgotten.

[Steve Miller]

Flivver

[RealPlayer]

Knockers

[ShiroKuro]

Knickers, while we’re at it.

[Mik]

Chiapet

[Lisa]

Covfefe. Although I'm guessing that'll be making a comeback in about 6 weeks.

[AdagioM]

@Steve-Miller and also, Chesterfield

[Steve Miller]

I’ll see your Chesterfield and raise you a divan!

[Bernard]

Swank

[Steve Miller]

Oh! I like swank!

Andy will wonder but we don’t use it much here -Posh!

[AndyD]

Posh very commonly used here (often together with the ubiquitous Becks). Chesterfield and divan are standard words in shops.

London rhyming slang and many localised words are less used and vanishing it seems. Probably due to the Internet and globalisation.

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