Words that have fallen out of use

[The Low Country]

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That's interesting, never heard them called that. Where is 'down here?'

A chibble down here is a local term for spring onions.

[Paulos]

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Yep! they're still heard but not as often as when I was a kid. Mostly the older generation use them now, funnily enough chibble cropped up at work today. The person who said it grew up about 35/40 miles from me but we're both in Lincolnshire.

A chibble down here is a local term for spring onions.

[The Low Country]

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Yep! they're still heard but not as often as when I was a kid. Mostly the older generation use them now, funnily enough chibble cropped up at work today. The person who said it grew up about 35/40 miles from me but we're both in Lincolnshire.

Now these ARE new to me! Were these ever in use outside of your town/village?

[Grosh62]

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Three words spring to mind:- Kelter, chibble and pluther

Kelter - rubbish/junk - e.g. the room is full of kelter.
chibble - when you chibble the edge off something to fit (the bits chibbled off are called chibblings) e.g. if you're tiling and don't need a full tile to finish a row the edge needs to be chibbled off.
pluther - 'it's pluthering/pluthering down' 'it started to pluther down this afternoon (both referring to snow coming down fast.) It was also used to describe water e.g. the water was pluthering out the overflow pipe.

Now these ARE new to me! Were these ever in use outside of your town/village?

[Trickyvee]

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And the little A5 yellow pamphlet you got with all the dialling codes! (Stoke-on-Trent 0782, Preston 0772 etc).

yeah I remember that too! Our drawer was full of rubbish aswell. Whenever you lost something you'd automatically go to the telephone table and look in the drawer about 50 times.

[stockportyears]

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More of a thing than a word. A telephone table! These days phones are wall-mounted or shoved on any old surface. Back then the telephone had its very own table in the hall way. We had one with a built in seat and a drawer for the yellow pages and address books.

And the little A5 yellow pamphlet you got with all the dialling codes! (Stoke-on-Trent 0782, Preston 0772 etc).

[Trickyvee]

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More of a thing than a word. A telephone table! These days phones are wall-mounted or shoved on any old surface. Back then the telephone had its very own table in the hall way. We had one with a built in seat and a drawer for the yellow pages and address books.

[The Low Country]

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Three words spring to mind:- Kelter, chibble and pluther

Kelter - rubbish/junk - e.g. the room is full of kelter.
chibble - when you chibble the edge off something to fit (the bits chibbled off are called chibblings) e.g. if you're tiling and don't need a full tile to finish a row the edge needs to be chibbled off.
pluther - 'it's pluthering/pluthering down' 'it started to pluther down this afternoon (both referring to snow coming down fast.) It was also used to describe water e.g. the water was pluthering out the overflow pipe.

[stockportyears]

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footy-related positions?....there's also: 'inside-left' (my position ) and 'inside-right'

Managers in the 70s were always 'supremos', particularly if they were foreign.

The media also had very little knowledge of other cultures. I remember reading a magazine report of a match in which Argentinian Sabella played well for Sheffield United and the headline was 'Samba with Sabella'. Years later, I realise Samba is Brazilian, in Argentina they have the tango.

[stockportyears]

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In the eighties we used to describe something exciting/delightful etc as "magic,"

"Magic, our Maurice!" /both thumbs up.

Yeah, some people still see Bill Maynard as Selwyn Froggatt and not the Heartbeat tramp.

[tulip]

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Same here Megawitch,the other doesn't sound right to me!


tulip

[Megawitch]

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They say 'deck' round here but it is a reference to beating a person to the ground or onto the deck.
Eg, "I'm going to deck 'im"!

[Richard1978]

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some of those are fairly regional.

I remember at primary school a few people used to use deck or dinge to mean beating someone up, ie "I'm going to deck your head in!".

[MysticEyes]

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Reading all of your posts, I've just remembered a few myself;

Mithered - Harrassed.
Bobbins - Rubbish.
Naff - No good.
Chuffed - Proud.
My nana still calls the radio the wireless.
Kecks - Underpants.
Buzzin' - Really happy.
I've never said sofa, it's always been settee or couch.

Who remembers in the late 80's early 90's when kids used to snap their index finger against the middle finger next to it? It used to make like a snapping sound as the index finger hit the middle finger....

What about "I can have you" as a threat that you could beat up another kid. Or "my dad could have your dad"? LOL

Where you ever the 'c.o.c.k' of the school? Did you ever 'go gay' for Whit Week?...Whatever happened to the Whit Walks?

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Goolies and pantry i think a pantry was where u kept food and a big kettle that only got used for funerals.