Some friends of mine sing in an amateur a cappella group. They refer to themselves as a choir.
Spoony bard? Never heard that one.
I still think “strumpet” has a nice ring to it, although I guess I don’t use the word in everyday speech. Anybody say “rogue” or “bimbo” anymore? And I haven’t heard “masher” in decades.
I use Garbage Can or Trash Can. I would use barrels for those bigger oil-drum-like cans (or plastic drums) you find in parks.
Actually, is Skips/Dumpsters/Tips a national thing - Dumpsters in the US, Skips in the UK maybe?
Was “masher” considered a very grave insult or a middling one? Could it even have been a somewhat mild insult?
Japan?
My husband calls my purse a pocketbook and the refrigerator an icebox. He isn’t 60, but he has the quality of not adapting to other people’s speech patterns, so his vocab is something like his mother’s; she’s 97 or so, and from tidewater VA.
A woman being described as “frigid.” Dates a work immediately to pre-1970 (and even in the sixties only old fuddy-duddies still used the term).
I think it’s interesting that this word, which nowadays connotes a mildly-misbehaving but lovable scamp, was once an insult serious enough to provoke duels.
It was fading out even when I was young, so I’m not really sure. I think it was relatively mild.
I was just being silly: “rakish cad” reminded me of it. It’s an insult (or maybe more of a term of endearment) from one of the old Final Fantasy games. It gets tossed around by gamers occasionally, or anyway it used to around the time the game it was from was popular.
Diskette? I always called them ‘floppies’, even though the 3.5" floppies were encased in hard plastic and were not, therefore, actually floppy; the older 5.25" floppies were indeed floppy, as were the even older 8" floppies (which I’ve never personally seen), so by the time the 3.5" version came out everyone just kept using the old term.
That term never applied to Zip Disks, however, and it certainly was never used for thumb drives.
‘Diskette’ would have made more sense, but it’s a bit formal.
I looked it up and it pretty much means rapist or date rapist, right? The definition I saw said it’s a man who forces himself on a woman.
Yes, some terms which used to be quite negative now are used in very light-hearted ways. The King James’ Bible gives us an example:
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Proverbs 17:4
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Here’s a confession:
If the fact that I’m an old hippie isn’t already obvious to people, it becomes so immediately when I blurt out the phrase “far out” or sometimes even "far-fucking-out!"
I could be wrong, but I never thought it meant “rapist.” I thought is was more like a guy who comes on too strong or is overly suggestive to a woman-- making her uncomfortable, but not threatened.
Back then, “date rape” was not an expression. If a man forced himself on a woman during a date, “she must have been asking for it.” Not my opinion-- the sexist attitude of the times!
I only ever heard it said when watching reruns of the Flinstones. “You brute, you masher!” So I don’t think it could be that bad a term if it was used in a cartoon.
Yeah, the Flinstones was aimed at adults, but it was the 60’s. Even adult shows had to be kid friendly.
That broad was a real dame.
For some reason mine all come from transportation:
Automobile
Pantechnicon
Airliner
Jalopy
Pram
Omnibus
Perhaps because that area does change so rapidly.
It’s a New England thing, I think. I’m from away, and call it a garbage can. My husband, who’s from MA, calls it a trash barrel. Don’t get me started on shopping “trolleys.” 
I like using varying terms for the same thing. Language would be pretty boring, otherwise!
That said, we had an ‘icebox’ for a couple of years while I was growing up. Our fridge broke, didn’t have the money to replace it, but we did have a huge functional freezer in the basement. So…we took empty plastic gallon milk containers, froze them full of water, and used 4-6 of them in the fridge. With 4 kids, there were plenty of hands to ‘Change the ice!’ the two or three times a day it took to keep everything cold. It worked VERY well!
If any of our family members need a secret phrase or question to figure out if it’s REALLY THEM, the phrase ‘Change the ice’ and what it means will definitely be it. 
“Been put through the wringer” is still a phrase I hear on occasion, yet I haven’t seen a wringer washer since the mid 1960’s.