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Slang words you never use but often hear.

  • 04-08-2015 12:38am
    #1
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,214 ✭✭✭✭


    I never use the following words.
    Sambo.
    Gaff.
    Gatt.
    Chrimbo.
    I just can't bring myself to use them. I wouldn't be a grammar warrior.
    What slang words don't you use?


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  • #2
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    gee


  • #3
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    All of the above bar gaff

    What's a gatt?

    I don't use the 'word' gaa for G-A-A


  • #4
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,409 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Gee.

    Edit: efb there first.


  • #5
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Digital Solitude wrote: »

    What's a gatt?

    I would gatt as slang for a gun. He OP might use it for something else though.


  • #6
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    endacl wrote: »
    Gee.

    Edit: efb there first.

    Boom! Got to the Gee before Endacl!


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  • #7
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Tabs - smokes


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    "Jars" for "drinks". Annoys the **** out of me.


  • #9
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Fag - cigarette
    Waines - kids, hate that term


  • #10
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    iPhone, MacBook.

    It's a phone and a laptop, you tarts.


  • #11
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,214 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    What's a gatt?

    I knew people when I went to college and they referred to alcohol as gatt.


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  • #12
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Tins for cans of beer.

    I just say I'm going having a few cans rather than I'm going having a few tins.


  • #13
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Peeps.

    F*ck off with that.


  • #14
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    efb wrote: »
    Tabs - smokes
    Never heard that. But that reminds me of 'slab'. A slab of beer. Sounds stoopid.


  • #15
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I suppose this is as good an opportunity as any to ask... what does 'bae' mean?


  • #16
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,366 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I knew people when I went to college and they referred to alcohol as gatt.

    From cork?


  • #17
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    RayM wrote: »
    I suppose this is as good an opportunity as any to ask... what does 'bae' mean?
    Ebonics for 'babe', innit?


  • #18
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,214 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    From cork?

    Yes, however the main offender was from Clare and I think his father was French.


  • #19
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    Bejingos
    Fag
    Bae.... UGH!!!! :mad:


  • #20
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    scobie ......... I assume it's a wanker in a tracksuit


  • #21
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Bants.

    Fcuk off!


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  • #22
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    Bants.

    Fcuk off!
    But Nacho, you're the Archbishop of Banterbury. What gives, bro?


  • #23
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    KungPao wrote: »
    Never heard that. But that reminds me of 'slab'. A slab of beer. Sounds stoopid.

    Yeah its an old English thing, I saw it once in a comic (yes-that old comic referring to smoking) and they used the phrase "tabs"


  • #24
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,366 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Yes, however the main offender was from Clare and I think his father was French.

    :pac: Gatting's something I only heard said by cork people


  • #25
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    RayM wrote: »
    I suppose this is as good an opportunity as any to ask... what does 'bae' mean?

    according to some hip young lad on newstalk.... 'before anyone else'


  • #26
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Bejingos
    Fag
    Bae.... UGH!!!! :mad:
    Great word for ciggies though.


  • #27
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,366 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    KungPao wrote: »
    Great word for ciggies though.

    Not in Texas


  • #28
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    Not in Texas
    To them Fanny and Spunk are harmless words. Swings and roundsbouts.


  • #29
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    KungPao wrote: »
    Great word for ciggies though.

    I once overheard someone say "state of that cigarette smoking that fag...." :confused:


  • #30
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    according to some hip young lad on newstalk.... 'before anyone else'

    Sweet merciful Jesus


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  • #31
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    RayM wrote: »
    I suppose this is as good an opportunity as any to ask... what does 'bae' mean?

    Before all else I think.

    LOL: I refuse to indulge in word mockery.


  • #32
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    "Bae," Urban Dictionary says, is an acronym that stands for "before anyone else," or a shortened version of baby or babe, another word for sweetie, and, mostly unrelated, poop in Danish.Jul 25, 2014

    Sandi Toksvig must píss herself


  • #33
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,366 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    according to some hip young lad on newstalk.... 'before anyone else'

    Doesn't mean that. Means babe/baby


  • #34
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    I'm pretty sure the "before anybody else" is made up*. It just means 'babe', invented by black Americans.

    *probably by white people trying to make sense of it all.


  • #35
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Feelz.

    I hate it's use even when people are using it in a mocking fashion. Be gone.


  • #36
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    Feelz.

    I hate it's use even when people are using it in a mocking fashion. Be gone.

    Agreed- all the feels- Fcuk off!!!!


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  • #37
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    KungPao wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the "before anybody else" is made up*. It just means 'babe', invented by black Americans.

    *probably by white people trying to make sense of it all.

    I hear you're a racist now father...


  • #38
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Because *noun*


  • #39
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Oh noes, lolz, I got the feelz for bae.


    Time for bed I think now.


  • #40
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Sick.

    How the slang use of this word came to mean the exact opposite of it's traditional definition I have no clue, but I wish it never happened.
    Even now, after a God knows how many years of hearing it being used it this way, it still grates. Can't abide it.


  • #41
    takola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    Rapid - used as amazing or awesome.
    Kid - as a means of addressing people.
    Telpis. Oh, I can't describe the hatred I feel for that word. Makes me shudder every time I hear it!


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  • #42
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    takola wrote: »
    Rapid - used as amazing or awesome.

    Sharon Ni Bheolain once said live on the Six None news that a burglar that had been caught coming down a chimney was "snared rapid".
    In the same news report Brian Dobson called the chimney a "chimley".


  • #43
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    takola wrote: »
    Rapid - used as amazing or awesome.
    Kid - as a means of addressing people.
    Telpis. Oh, I can't describe the hatred I feel for that word. Makes me shudder every time I hear it!

    Is rapid still in use? Was fairly common in the 90's when I was up.

    The bog equivalent 'savage' is another one.


  • #44
    takola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Is rapid still in use? Was fairly common in the 90's when I was up.

    The bog equivalent 'savage' is another one.

    Sadly it is, at least in Limerick. I remember savage being used up in Sligeach when I was a child too. Ugh.


  • #45
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    Well horsebox hows she cuttin hai - Greetings my familiar, how do I find you at present?


  • #46
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    Amazeballs. Totes. Awesome. Ones that have been mentioned before that drive me nuts include bae and bants, especially bants. *head explodes with rage*


  • #47
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    RayM wrote: »
    I suppose this is as good an opportunity as any to ask... what does 'bae' mean?

    how is it even pronounced?


  • #48
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,810 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    'Soz'


  • #49
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Well horsebox hows she cuttin hai - Greetings my familiar, how do I find you at present?

    Ah hould yer wheesht ya crying jinny


  • #50
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Medusa22


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    how is it even pronounced?

    It is pronounced like 'bay' *shudders*


  • #51
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    I thought a gatt was a homemade catapult.

    That 'bae' thing really is cretinous.


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