90's slang

RawK

im writing a story set in the early 90's
what i would love if for some of you to help re-jog my memory with some slang that was popular of the time

stuff like.
"Deadly" (timeless I know!)
"RAPID"
"Awh SICKENER!!!"

let me know guys!

WindSock

Scarleh (scarlet), Get out of dat garden, I'm a builder, schwinngg, rad, awesome, don't have a cow man, and anything else from clueless, waynes world and the simpsons.
I have a few more at the front of my head, but cant think of right now, no doubt they'll pop out at sometime over the weekend.

Bearing in mind from 1990-99 I was 9-18

Calling someone a spa, dipstick, rehab, wankstain, benny, gaylord.

Calling cum jip or spunk.

Calling anal sex a backlash or a bum-ride.

Saying "dawwwwwwwwww" while acting a bit mental when someone said something stupid.

Saying "whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo" while thumping the air with your fist.

Rave on, rave to the grave, etc.

Bogus, radical, anything from the Turtles/Bill & Ted

Gick, diddies, on a bone.

DonkeyStyle \o/

RawK wrote:

"Awh SICKENER!!!"

Or a variant of that... telling people they're sickened (after proving someone wrong).

WindSock

And ''will ye get off with me mate''

murphaph

boreds wrote:

And ''will ye get off with me mate''

They still say that in some Liverpool gay bars I'm sure

30txsbzmcu2k9w

NOOOOOOT! (naaawt) was everywhere there for a good while:rolleyes:

luckat

She was so, like, sickened. And I'm, like, "Who *is* that? What *are* you?"

Ruu_Old

boreds wrote:

And ''will ye get off with me mate''

Similar one, "shifting". :eek:

Kojak

Ruu wrote:

Similar one, "shifting". :eek:

Yeah, that word was used a lot around home.

Deadly was another 90's slang word that we seemed to us a lot. "That is deadly"

Lirange

Kojak wrote:

Deadly was another 90's slang word that we seemed to us a lot. "That is deadly"

Courtesy in large part to Derek from The Commitments.

WindSock

I think NOOOOT is making a bit of a comeback after Borat. 'This suit is blacknot:D

And shifting I think was more of a culchie thing.

''OH. MY. GOD'' is another, and ''How YOU doin?
I hate Friends.

Go ask me bollix

kelle

"Cool" was another one, though by then I was in my twenties and thought I was sophisticated, so slang was not my kind of thing.

trout

on reflection, it appears now that a lot of the 90's slang i heard or used was centred on the human posterior as in ... me hoop, me hole, or me brown ... as catch all responses to almost all questions or statements.

Q: Did you get question 6 on on the physics homework ?
A: Me hoop

Q: Are you playing ball on Sunday
A: Me hole

Q: Did you know that John Wayne only had one lung ?
A: Me brown

Also, "are you for real ?" and "snap out of it!" were used a lot, especially if you had to demonstrate how worldly you were.

Lots of Bill & Ted quotes too ... bogus, gnarly, bodacious or excellent!

Ah ... the cut & thrust of witty repartee. Great days. Great days indeed.

DO0GLE

What about the 'Fleckers' in their fleckie, shiney tracksuits.

Tabnabs

Haven't seen "bumchum" graffitied onto a boy-band poster since the 90's.

"Snared" or "caught rapid" for being caught out.

Shouting "sketch" when the teacher came along.

DarkJager

"Come out of the fog"

rubadub

Lirange wrote:

Courtesy in large part to Derek from The Commitments.

"Deadly" was popular way before that. Most of the phrases mentioned here were used in the 80's.

"Flecks" was in the 80's, all the scum used to wear the same nike jackets with 2 colours.

Ones I never heard in the 80s were "scarlet", and "massive", I always thought massive was odd. I would hear young scumbag girls on the bus shouting around "yeah Tommo, he's bleedin MASSIVE", I always wondered about these lucky well hung scumbags who seemed to be riding the whole estate since all the others girls would be agreeing as though they had rode him too!

At the beggining "massive" seemed to mean good looking, then it just became "good", so a song could be "bleeding massive"

Didnt hear "mad" in the 80's (meaning strange or amazing).

Also "gargle monster", meaning somebody who drank a lot, but more usually used by e-heads to describe a drinker who didnt take e

Faith

I don't know if this was only Cork, but if you thought someone was good looking in the early to mid 90's, you called them a "fla".

My best friend is still upset about the time I told her she wasn't a fla (we were 8). It was a while before she found out what it meant. She was understandably pissed off then...

ntlbell

Not from cork but I thought fla was still used today?

The majority of the slang so far goes even further back than 80's

Mrs. MacGyver

Faith wrote:

I don't know if this was only Cork, but if you thought someone was good looking in the early to mid 90's, you called them a "fla".

My best friend is still upset about the time I told her she wasn't a fla (we were 8). It was a while before she found out what it meant. She was understandably pissed off then...

I think the 'fla' was a Cork thing alright!. Also 'chalk it down' was commonly used.

Batesy

'That was a Dinger' and 'Ston-it' were classics.:D

MagnumForce

Q:"Where's John?"
A:"Up me hole pickin daisies!"

"Scuther", "Manky" etc to mean horrible

there was another one, but i've forgotten it

rockyfive

The one i remember the most is spunk.. taken from Charlene in Neighbours as in "Scott is such a spunk". I referred to most boys as being a spunk even though i was like 10! Plus i know that was more 80's...

obviously as i grew up it came to mean something different..

Other 90's phrases...

- Barf
- All that and a bag of chips? (or was that just in galway?)
- dweeb


other key 90's memories are Garth Brooks, rave music and Alanis Morrisette... a decade of musical contradictions

anniehoo

Bleedin rapid.."ah sure he's sure hes only bleeeeedin rapaah"
Me mott
Loooooser!!!
Ride..."roide"
Talk te da hand

ciaran76

I remember lads slagging each others Ma in the 90's like..."your Ma is a snowblower" etc etc

HashSlinging

did ye get yer hole???............. yer whole weeks wages..

HashSlinging

another one - a buuoer meaning that girl is very nice and i'd like to marry her.....yer wans a "buuer" or all the "buuers" lads when looking at some spanish students.

Bray talk

MagnumForce

I remembered the other one:

The use of the phrase "Big Swingin' Micky!" to mean "So what?" or "Big Deal"

Cormic

I cannot believe that no one has mentioned Gift, I used it all the time when I was younger.

johnnyrotten

murphaph wrote:

They still say that in some Liverpool gay bars I'm sure

you're sure:eek:

Mrs. MacGyver

Sorted
Stop the lights (maby thats a Cork one!)

HashSlinging

Feek - another meaning for that girl is very nice and i'd like to marry her.

tc20

"drinklink" meaning ATM, anyone remeber the first Pass cards, white with the word Pass written in blue?

@ OP - what age are you, when did you grow up?

rapid crack, deadly doss, nifty (last one might be a bit 80s)

soccerc

tc20 wrote:

"drinklink" meaning ATM, anyone remeber the first Pass cards, white with the word Pass written in blue?

Yeah, had one of them yokes back in 1982, even lodged my wages through the machine every Eriday, except they didn't actually lodge them until next business day, the following Monday.:eek:

They will never catch on!

Nordie

Majority of the slang is still be used in parts of Dublin today.

Jesus Wept

'wheel the biscuit (somtimes shortened to wheel the bickie') :eek:

'Get out of that garden'

Dyr

Surely jo maxi is the ultimate 90s slang

that and buzz/deadly buzz/buzzin

was scobey around pre 90s??

Bassman

How about...."Bite me!" as '90s slang.