Anyone ever hear of "Gat"

jamieh

Hey all,

I've heard a few people recently calling drink "Gat", eg, "Are you coming on the gat?", etc etc

Has anyone else ever heard of gat before??

I heard that it's a Cork word, but I don't know for sure where it came from!!

Femelade

yep. i've heard it and sometime use it.

"i'm going out for a few gats"

oh and i'm from cork.

chillywilly

i thought a "gat" was an american word for a gun!?!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gat

Stephen

Never heard of it before.

Dave!

nope. the only gat i know is a slingshot, made from a clothes-hanger, some elastic bands, and a piece of a belt. ahh, them were the days.

Peace

When i was a kid we used the word to refer to a females downstairs/partyzone.

petes

Never heard of "gat".

Fast_Mover

'we're going gatting'=we're going drinking..

tho tbh..iv only ever heard knackers/wanabe knackers saying it!!

chamlis

Explains why its in Tralee then. Different parts of the town use different words. One side is "gat", another is "sauce".

petes

Sauce is used fairly regular in Dundalk. "Any sauce the weekend?"

Fast_Mover

'he's back on the sause!'..that's the only time iv really heard it being used.

snickerpuss

I only know gat as slang for a slingshot.

Manolo Blahnik

yep. i've heard it and sometime use it.

"i'm going out for a few gats"

oh and i'm from cork.

It's such a Cork thing! But yeah it is a bit of a scumbag term alright.

''Here Bis, are ye goin gatting tonight''

''We were gatting in da field last night and the shades pulled up when we were all steaming''

Here, any chance you'd get me a few gats there, no?

Femelade

aw lads, i'm not a scanger...i think i say it messing..like i sometimes say "hiya!!" in a knackerish voice..just cos....i dunno, just messing really.

jdivision

jamieh wrote:

Hey all,

I've heard a few people recently calling drink "Gat", eg, "Are you coming on the gat?", etc etc

Has anyone else ever heard of gat before??

I heard that it's a Cork word, but I don't know for sure where it came from!!

It's widely used in Cork. "You heading for a few gats?"

fuzzywiggle

Never heard of it. Heard of sauce though

Manolo Blahnik

Femmy wrote:

aw lads, i'm not a scanger...i think i say it messing..like i sometimes say "hiya!!" in a knackerish voice..just cos....i dunno, just messing really.

I always say ''Hiya'' It's a habit

or ''talk t'ya later''

_Kaiser_

DaveMcG wrote:

nope. the only gat i know is a slingshot, made from a clothes-hanger, some elastic bands, and a piece of a belt. ahh, them were the days.

That'd be how I know it too... I had a great one!

iFight

Kaiser2000 wrote:

That'd be how I know it too... I had a great one!

Never heard of either:D

mossieh

Gatt is the word for drink from the Cant, the traveller's language...a few more examples:

feen = man
beoir = woman
grade = cash

anyway, can't talk now, I'm gettin' my grade off the feen and I'm goin' gattin'...:cool:

fightin irish

DaveMcG wrote:

nope. the only gat i know is a slingshot, made from a clothes-hanger, some elastic bands, and a piece of a belt. ahh, them were the days.

Ditto here m8, And the remember the pre-made crazy ones with the wrist srap

Oops off topic....

chamlis

mossieh wrote:

Gatt is the word for drink from the Cant, the traveller's language...a few more examples:

feen = man
beoir = woman
grade = cash

anyway, can't talk now, I'm gettin' my grade off the feen and I'm goin' gattin'...:cool:

That's class. Well said.

CuLT

That's probably the weirdest term I've ever heard for drink.

I wonder could boards.ie push a new word into the culture just for the hell of it? If everyone used it, we'd have 30,000 people using it to start with

"Headin out for a few quixotes?"

Faith

Aw, you guys live such sheltered lives!

"Lamp that pair of getaway sticks on that beor over there. She's pure mint!" = Look at the legs on that woman over there! She's beautiful!

It is generally only used by knackers or the private school kids who act like knackers.

You can find it all here: http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/index.php?module=Dictionary&func=displayvol&vid=1

chamlis

Hehehe with a cervantes chaser?

pisslips

mossieh wrote:

Gatt is the word for drink from the Cant, the traveller's language...a few more examples:

feen = man
beoir = woman
grade = cash

anyway, can't talk now, I'm gettin' my grade off the feen and I'm goin' gattin'...:cool:

Correct,
Also it's not just scumbags/wannabe scumbags who use such terms, a lot of the older generation in munster use them.I'd be proud of it if it was part of my natural vocabulary, I guess it's a sign of their heritage, other than the pale.

funk-you

jdivision wrote:

It's widely used in Cork. "You heading for a few gats?"

Crazy country folk at it again......

-Funk

Patricide

Yea its just the way it is down in tralee, you goin gatting fiend, Its mostly the pavees and the wavees that use the term, The only problem being that theres more wavies and pavees in tralee than anywhere else ive seen so its a term most people use.

Esel

DaveMcG wrote:

nope. the only gat i know is a slingshot, made from a clothes-hanger, some elastic bands, and a piece of a belt. ahh, them were the days.

Wimp! I used a forked branch (from a coppiced hazel if available!), strips of red tractor/truck tube (black was not as stretchy), and the tongue of an old shoe. Now that was a gat. Oh, and rounded pebbles - I couldn't afford marbles, plus marbles held fingerprints.

Tha Gopher

Ever notice how certain words go in and out of fashion? Everyone used to say muppet between about 2002 and 2003. Anyone saying it past this period would be branded an outcast.

Beor/bure used to be popular for bird too. Gone now

And for about 3 months last year everybody was saying gick. Havent heard it since

And back in the day, people used to say rehab "aw ya big fcukin rehab". Whered it go?

chillywilly

Tha Gopher wrote:

Ever notice how certain words go in and out of fashion? Everyone used to say muppet between about 2002 and 2003. Anyone saying it past this period would be branded an outcast.

Beor/bure used to be popular for bird too. Gone now

And for about 3 months last year everybody was saying gick. Havent heard it since

And back in the day, people used to say rehab "aw ya big fcukin rehab". Whered it go?

i believe the word that is in at the moment is "random"

"i went to some random pub last night and i went home with some random girl.......then she said some random comment"....etc etc!!!

ntlbell

Peace wrote:

When i was a kid we used the word to refer to a females downstairs/partyzone.

or the top of a thong showing over a pair of jeans

fightin irish

Tha Gopher wrote:

Ever notice how certain words go in and out of fashion? Everyone used to say muppet between about 2002 and 2003. Anyone saying it past this period would be branded an outcast.

I remember first hearing the term muppet around my leaving cert and that was in '94 i think.

cupthehand

Yep it use in parts of Limerick

Will you go away you're half gatty!

squibs

I wonder could boards.ie push a new word into the culture just for the hell of it? If everyone used it, we'd have 30,000 people using it to start with

It was tried and didn't work - http://ball.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=244980&highlight=crapfork

r3nu4l

Tha Gopher wrote:

Ever notice how certain words go in and out of fashion? Everyone used to say muppet between about 2002 and 2003.

Muppet is still huge in the UK...the muppets!

Tha Gopher wrote:

And for about 3 months last year everybody was saying gick. Havent heard it since

I remember using "gick" to my mother in 1979 and I also remember not being able to sit down for a week!

Sophistikid

jamieh wrote:

Hey all,

I've heard a few people recently calling drink "Gat", eg, "Are you coming on the gat?", etc etc

Has anyone else ever heard of gat before??

I heard that it's a Cork word, but I don't know for sure where it came from!!

Yeah, cork word for drink/drinking (gattin')

http://www.irishabroad.com/culture/slang/corkslang2.asp

jdivision

Feen and Bure (as we spelt it) are commonly used in Cork. Another classic Cork word is jagging - when you're getting together with somebody regularly and you're not going out with each other you're jagging each other

jdivision

fightin irish wrote:

I remember first hearing the term muppet around my leaving cert and that was in '94 i think.

Yep I would have been using it around then too. That and "It's the berries" when something went well or was really good.