Old fashioned speech

It seems old fashioned speech (and values) are still important to some people

Wanted - strict nanny with Victorian values: Couple's online advert for a £55,000-a-year childminder says their son is only allowed an hour’s play a day

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5889797/Wanted-strict-nanny-Victorian-values.html

The unidentified parents have posted an online job advertisement for a £55,000-a-year nanny to help bring up their child using strict Victorian values.

The unconventional advert lists a number of strict rules the nanny must follow, including only allowing their seven-year-old son to speak the Queen’s English and for him to have just one hour of playtime each day.

The job, in Ascot, Berkshire, has been listed on the Childcare.co.uk parenting website. It states that, in keeping with their Victorian ethos, the couple think it is important to show children minimal affection so they do not become spoilt.

The role requires the live-in nanny ‘to refrain from any contact other than shaking hands and a kiss on the head before bed if necessary’. It adds: ‘We are firm believers that children should be seen and not heard and believe this will help his development.’
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Sounds like JRM needs a new nanny :p
 
Gubbins - To describe a collection of miscellaneous stuff.

My wife was well into her 20s and had never heard of it when I met her. I said you can use it a bit like "all that jazz", which she understood lol.

Also while I'm on, "chock-a-block" or "chocked full"
 
Ginnel as in an alleyway, probably a northern word, maybe Manchester or Yorkshire?

Discombobulate (to confuse) A barrister I once instructed used it and I realised immediately his bill was likely to be similarly grandiose. (It was :( )

Serendipitous

Cherubic

Workhouse

In the doghouse

Parlour (and parlourmaid)

Condiments

Best silver
 
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A couple of my all-time favourites. Not heard very often these days but I use them occasionally when I'm in an Old Empire English officer mood. :)

Flimflam.

noun
  1. 1.
    nonsensical or insincere talk.
    "pseudo-intellectual flimflam"
  2. 2.
    a confidence trick.
    "flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials"
verb
  1. 1.
    swindle (someone) with a confidence trick.
    "the tribe was flimflammed out of its land"

Taradiddle.

noun
BRITISHinformal
  1. a petty lie.
    "no sane person would make up such a taradiddle"
    • pretentious nonsense.
      "this taradiddle from him about his new radio show"
 
tek81 said:
Somewhat controversial these days, but "spastic", is a word that has most certainly fallen out of favour
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Could be the most offensive yet least broadcast word because there's no get out clauses for using spastic as an insult.

Minds gone blank trying to think of other medical terms which got corrupted.
 
A friend of mine had polio as a child and once we were having a few beers and at the bar I said "I think it's your round". "Hmm, he replied, I appear to be short of funds again, never trust a cripple". I was quite shocked, but as the years went by I found he used it often and enjoyed the reactions. Not a word you hear much now, same as above.
 
Hotwired said:
Could be the most offensive yet least broadcast word because there's no get out clauses for using spastic as an insult.

Minds gone blank trying to think of other medical terms which got corrupted.
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Let me help you there.

Moron. Moron is a term once used in psychology and psychiatry to denote mild intellectual disability. The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement. Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term. It is similar to imbecile and idiot.

Imbecile. The term imbecile was once used by psychiatrists to denote a category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability, as well as a type of criminal. The word arises from the Latin word imbecillus, meaning weak, or weak-minded. It included people with an IQ of 26–50, between "idiot" (IQ of 0–25) and "moron" (IQ of 51–70).

Idiot. This was formerly a legal and psychiatric category of profound intellectual disability, where a person's mental age is two years or less, and he or she cannot guard himself or herself against common physical dangers.

Cretin. Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth.

Retard. The word retard was widely accepted in the late-1900s to refer to people with mental disabilities; however it is now more commonly used as an insult. The word has gained notoriety for causing a growing number of mentally disabled people to feel unfairly stereotyped.

However, far from old fashioned, I'm almost certain these words are still in daily use. :D
 
Dolt

Stap my vitals

Stap me stealthily

Comely

Padded cell

Zeppelin

Wiil `o the wisp

Floppy disk

Police whistle

Poor house

Mother's ruin

Police Box

AA box

RAC box

Filofax

Bassinet

Perambulator

Slinky toy

Toddler's reins
 
Merlin5 said:
Some very good ones posted.

Here's another. 'It's all the rage'.



Not really an old fashioned word, still popular, but I think a lot of people say vocab these days, at least, that's what I hear americans say.





Lol :D Very true with many of today's youths. Those whippersnappers.
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That post was a hint to use the correct term in your title. It was a long shot and didn't land well :(
 
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