Hot Water Bottles/Jars Conundrum

Marshmallowie · 24-10-2011 2:39am #1

Hi, just wondering do people call hot water bottles, "jars" these days?

And if so is it a Cork thing or just a back arse of nowhere thing?:)

My college housemates keep abusing me over the term "jar", but I'm pretty sure other people call them jars as well (I hope).

mackg · 24-10-2011 2:42am

Never heard it before I moved to Cork, assume it's a cork thing.

Saila · 24-10-2011 2:42am

"are ye going for a few jars?"

"yeah, see you down there"

*at the pub*

"what are you doing with hot water bottles?

"

"you said are ye going for a few jars!

"

"....................................."

Ruu_Old · 24-10-2011 2:44am

From Meath, call it a jar!

flanum · 24-10-2011 2:44am

its a cavan thing too.

policarp · 24-10-2011 2:46am

Marshmallowie wrote: »

Hi, just wondering do people call hot water bottles, "jars" these days?

And if so is it a Cork thing or just a back arse of nowhere thing?:)

My college housemates keep abusing me over the term "jar", but I'm pretty sure other people call them jars as well (I hope).

Let's go for a jar and we'll sort it out. . .over a few bottles. . .

CiaranMT · 24-10-2011 2:49am

Never heard of it.

Marshmallowie · 24-10-2011 2:56am

YAY!!

Delighted some people use it!! Going to show this to them tomorrow so the abuse may finally stop!

There's nothing better than going to bed on a night like tonight with a hot jar.......

3rdDegree · 24-10-2011 2:57am

Kilkenny, call it a bottle.

Loughc · 24-10-2011 2:57am

From Tipp, I always call them hot-water bottles but my dad calls them Jars!!!

Aoifey! · 24-10-2011 2:58am

Never heard of it.

Maybe it was some elaborate plan by your mother to call random objects by different names so that when you moved out into the real world you would go around calling cars trees and hot water bottles jars?

Just putting it out there...

Marshmallowie · 24-10-2011 3:02am

Aoifey! wrote: »

Never heard of it.

Maybe it was some elaborate plan by your mother to call random objects by different names so that when you moved out into the real world you would go around calling cars trees and hot water bottles jars?

Just putting it out there...

Hmmmmm, that would have taken years of dedication.... maybe! She does like to make me act the fool sometimes! HA!

ballsymchugh · 24-10-2011 3:07am

it's hot water bottle, or hot jar. who in their right mind would say hot water jar?
that'd be totally confusing and would cause shocks the like of which humanity hasn't seen since miley and fidelma shifted the faces off each other in glenroe. before the watershed i might add!

KnifeWRENCH · 24-10-2011 3:09am

I'm from Cork and always called them bottles but my Dad calls them jars. So maybe calling them jars is generally an older generation Cork thing?

3rdDegree · 24-10-2011 3:20am

Found a very old "hot water jar" in my grandmother's house after she died. No, I'm not implying that the jar killed her. It was pristine silver coloured metal and shaped like a jar! This was back in the mid 70's and the thing had been there for about 50 years at that stage. It was about the size of a thermos flask. In fact, it looked like the inside part of a flask. Apparently, they filled it with hot water, wrapped it in a soft cloth and (I want to say "beat each other savagely with it") used it to heat the bed. My grandmother lived in the middle of nowhere in Tipp. Maybe that's where the reference to "jar" comes from? Back in the day they really were jars.

But now they are bottles, so enough o this jar nonsense!

policarp · 24-10-2011 3:23am

Ajar is when a door is half opened and half closed. . .

Irish Guitarist · 24-10-2011 4:07am

My father always called it a jar. I thought he had made up the term himself until now. I'm from Carlow and so was my father.

up for anything · 24-10-2011 10:01am

Wiki - Hot water bottles

They might not look like jars any more but then again they hardly look like bottles either unless they were modelled on naggins. Tonight I'm going to take a hot water naggin to bed.

crazyderk · 24-10-2011 10:06am

I'm from Wicklow, Parents from Dublin/Wicklow and we called it a Jar

North Americans look at you funny when you call it a Jar

MidlandsM · 24-10-2011 10:13am

....its a country thing.............them JARS!

ned14 · 24-10-2011 5:31pm

A quick definition search, and I think the Jar vs Hot Water Bottle argument can be put to rest. It may be known as a "Jar" by some, but it's definitely a bottle.

Jar n. A cylindrical glass or earthenware vessel with a wide mouth and usually no handles.

Bottle n. A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped.

Where To · 24-10-2011 5:34pm

I'm from donegal and we call them sheep

mattjack · 24-10-2011 5:37pm

Most modern folk with 'lectricty use them new fangled 'lectric blanket things.By the way the turfs wet so the power station might be runnin' a bit slow tonight.