# Words you used to use but have fallen out of common usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Monkey Tennis\ **Created:** [20 May 2016 05:44 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881 "2016-05-20T05:44:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:03 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/21 "2016-05-20T07:03:29Z")
> Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint > > > Originally posted by @Fatso > > > > Quim was an old porn word for vagina > > Isn’t Quim female juices? What like Malibu? ---
**Author:** ![Sfcsim](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sfcsim/32/88192_2.png) [@Sfcsim](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sfcsim)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:09 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/22 "2016-05-20T07:09:00Z")
Dag - CD - Space Cadet - Ace - Fugly ---
**Author:** ![Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sussexsaint/32/74_2.png) [@Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sussexsaint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:21 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/23 "2016-05-20T07:21:17Z")
> Originally posted by @Fatso > > Quim was an old porn word for vagina [![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/e/d/ed01955152855fe09170d933dcdfc2bdd20ec7f1.jpeg "LOKI & Black Widow "Mewling Quim"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o2fw3Hme-0) A word seldom used but managed to get past the censors in the US - 2:44 in In the cinema all the Dads shot drink down their noses or choked on their popcorn at that line. I’d imagine most americans didn’t pick it up at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sussexsaint/32/74_2.png) [@Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sussexsaint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:23 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/24 "2016-05-20T07:23:03Z")
the word ‘Joey’ used to convey someone was a bit thick or ‘special’ usually combined with a tongue behind bottom lip and an ‘unnnnnn’ sound. Back in the day when our street slang came from Blue Peter ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:26 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/25 "2016-05-20T07:26:26Z")
Nipper…a youngster of indeterminate age. I use it for anyone younger than myself, which is probably most of you Nippers. ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/26 "2016-05-20T07:29:06Z")
From Joey Deacon. ---
**Author:** ![CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cb-saint/32/95251_2.png) [@CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/CB-Saint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/27 "2016-05-20T07:34:49Z")
That was an epic back fire by the beeb. Show a piece to raise awareness of mental issues with a young audience and create a country wide piss take in the playground. Not what the producers had in mind, I wager. ---
**Author:** ![Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sussexsaint/32/74_2.png) [@Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sussexsaint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 07:47 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/28 "2016-05-20T07:47:22Z")
I still use this , for some reason I’d always assumed it only related to boychilds but apparently its unisex. To my Dad I’m usually ‘Nip’ ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 08:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/29 "2016-05-20T08:29:16Z")
Dunny, shitter, heads - all words for the toilet that I don’t hear anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Bathsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/bathsaint/32/22_2.png) [@Bathsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Bathsaint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 08:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/30 "2016-05-20T08:45:36Z")
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZF0DJRQo_Y) “Ernie Roberts was like C3PO” lol ---
**Author:** ![Bathsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/bathsaint/32/22_2.png) [@Bathsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Bathsaint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 08:48 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/31 "2016-05-20T08:48:25Z")
Oh, and at 2’ 25’’ - I saw Tom as a LIGGER Never heard the word ligger used in any context in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Rallyboy)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 08:58 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/32 "2016-05-20T08:58:50Z")
This thread is rad. ---
**Author:** ![CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cb-saint/32/95251_2.png) [@CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/CB-Saint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 09:19 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/33 "2016-05-20T09:19:50Z")
I rarely hear anyone one use the word Pillock anymore. I used to call most idiots that crossed my path “cock ends”, but for some inexplicable reason have stopped doing so. I might resurrect it. ---
**Author:** ![Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Rallyboy)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 10:00 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/34 "2016-05-20T10:00:29Z")
This reminds me a a chat I had with an elderly relative when I tried to explain that _cripple_ is not a good word to use for someone with a disability - _‘but they are crippled’_ they explained innocently… Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 10:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/35 "2016-05-20T10:29:17Z")
> Originally posted by @Rallyboy > > This thread is rad. I think you’ll find it’s luxe. ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 11:13 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/36 "2016-05-20T11:13:40Z")
Not fallen out of use but sick now has completely different meaning… ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 11:33 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/37 "2016-05-20T11:33:10Z")
> Originally posted by @Goatboy > > > Originally posted by @Rallyboy > > > > This thread is rad. > > I think you’ll find it’s luxe. It’s better than that - it’s DL. ---
**Author:** ![Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sussexsaint/32/74_2.png) [@Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sussexsaint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 11:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/38 "2016-05-20T11:38:58Z")
Sorry, please and thank you ---
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 11:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/39 "2016-05-20T11:42:18Z")
I thought that was a racist term? ---
**Author:** ![Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sussexsaint/32/74_2.png) [@Sussexsaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sussexsaint)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2016 12:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881/40 "2016-05-20T12:29:46Z")
> Originally posted by @KRG > > > Originally posted by @Sussexsaint > > > > the word ‘Joey’ used to convey someone was a bit thick or ‘special’ usually combined with a tongue behind bottom lip and an ‘unnnnnn’ sound. > > > > Back in the day when our street slang came from Blue Peter > > I thought that was a racist term? No , as said above Blue Peter followed a chap with spastic paraparesis called Joey Deacon. He could barely be understood but someone managed to over hear him and could understand him and acted as his translator. It was a heartwarming story and he wrote a book. However to the playgrounds of Britain came a new way to insult people Joey, Spastic etc. obviously awful in retrospect, but in terms of phrases that denote an era its got to be up there as the source was so obvious [Previous page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881.md?page=1) [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/words-you-used-to-use-but-have-fallen-out-of-common-usage/881.md?page=3)