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Whaddya call it?

  • 05-02-2008 1:23pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,869 ✭✭✭


    I've always known it as a hurl, but I've been reliably informed by the daughter of a hurley-maker, that it is indeed called a hurley.

    She says that only Dubs call them hurls.

    So, I thought I'd put it to Boards to see what the consensus is.

    I call it a.... 44 votes

    Hurl
    0%
    Hurley
    40%
    gerirecruiserweightblackbeltDannoWhatsGoingOnslovessmgNalced_irl[Deleted User]Kingdommickzerwow sierrayayamarkFloppybitsPride Fighterpd101will1977Da Bomberwalnuts 18 votes
    Camán
    45%
    MossingucciTrampasandrewieDayshachubba1984randombarErin Go BrathciggsscaramangaD. CoughlanslowharryhawkwingprendyPigletloverlucyluTomthepostPat ShortDDC1990JJPW89 20 votes
    Thank you for hurling in Bossarkey
    13%
    kaimeraYavvygaeilgegrindsguinnessdrinkerpopebenny16Green Giant 6 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Tomthepost
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Tomthepost


    Camán
    I have always called it a hurley. People have often argued with me that it is a hurl but im sticking to my guns!


  • #3
    blackbelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,742 ✭✭✭blackbelt


    Hurley
    I'm a Dub and indeed call it a hurl but one of the men that ran a course I attended called it a hurl as well and he's a Clare man.


  • #4
    cruiserweight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭cruiserweight


    Hurley
    I would call it a hurl and I would be insulted if you said I was from Dublin :p Don't really think it matters.


  • #5
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    You mean it's not a bat? :D


  • #6
    scaramanga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭scaramanga


    Camán
    hurley , stick , cow beater ect


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  • #7
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,841 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Hurley
    No option for wife beater.:D


  • #8
    wow sierra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭wow sierra


    Hurley
    Always called it a hurl - and I'm not a Dub. I would be surprised if anyone called it a hurley 30 years ago (not where I come from anyway!) but you hear both used now.


  • #9
    future_plans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭future_plans


    Used always be a hurley growing up in Cork...now in Dublin (and when I talk to other lads from around leinster) it seems to be a hurl..


  • #10
    Tomthepost
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Tomthepost


    Camán
    Less letters! Easier for the Dubs to spell:D


  • #11
    prendy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭prendy


    Camán
    hurley!

    just shortened the name!


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  • #12
    redspider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,544 ✭✭✭redspider


    I've used all three, a hurley, a hurl and a caman.

    "Have you got your hurley with you" ...
    "Pass me over that hurl, would ye?" ...
    "Who's hurl is that?" ....
    "It went in off his hurley" ....


    Hurl has other uses, eg:
    "Lets go out for a hurl" ......

    "Lets go for a few pocs" .... (pucks?)


    Who cares really as long as we all understand each other.

    Redspider


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