(Ye) Old British / English words we hardly use

[Expat Smoggie]

Here’s your starter for 10…nincompoop

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Costermonger

 

[futureboy]

"Yea or nay" has seemingly become "yay or nay" - presumably because people are thick.

 

[brattleboro]

decamped,,,,,,(to leave quickly)

 

[Expat Smoggie]

I had great fun with this word in Saudi when I introduced it to the locals on an oil and gas plant way back when…

Tickety-boo

 

[JackG]

right/left half, inside forward.

 

[Anton_Berg]

Swindle.
Lorry.
Chairman.
Actress.
Heroine.
Fettle.

 

[r00fie1]

gash

 

[alanmoodysdog]

claggy

 

[JackG]

catchfart

 

[Kowalski]

Fudgel - pretending to work when you are goofing around. It doesn't apply to anyone on here, honest officer.

 

[JackG]

Lots of excellent entries here

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1788)

 

[Soutra]

Glisters.

"All that glisters is not gold".

 

[Soutra]

Fugdel - pretending to work when you are goofing around. It doesn't apply to anyone on here, honest officer.

I think it is fudgel.

 

[Lottowyn]

Gadzooks.

 

[SNEEKERS]

Piffle, "to talk or act in a trifling and ineffective way," a cross between piddle and trifle.

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

Flange

 

[Blf]

Lordy.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Fartleberries.

 

[go-nads!]

Guttersnipe - a vagabond or scruff