Slang Words That Are No Longer in Use.

Xenophile

Anybody here know what the word "smuts" was used for ?

gammygils

The Smuts was the cinema in my area. Or the Flicks

ardinn

I know smut referred to distasteful sexual material - such as porn mags or movies

Xenophile

Flicks is correct. It was used as a term for going to cinema, as back in the day as they say the cinema was filled with cigarette smoke, even young people could go there and smoke like chimneys. They were under the cover of darkness and knew that their parents were not present. Of course many adults went there to enjoy their cigarettes as well the films!

nullzero

Rapid or "rapeh" to describe something good.

Wibbs

The word "Bowler" for a dog you hear almost never these days.

MRnotlob606

Gallybander

Menas

Bootboys and Corner Boys.

Ursus Horribilis

French letters. I'm not sure what it says about the population of France or the postal service that they were equated with prophylactics

whiskeyman

'penpal' - someone you write a letter to on a frequent basis.








Whatever that involves...

suicide_circus

Frig (verb) to finger

Sam Kade

Tool
Sham
Beur
Jacks

The Backwards Man

A smut is a dour or sour face where I'm from.

Look at the cut of the ye with that smut on ye.

gramar

Snazzy

CFlat

Hubba hubba! -Use to be used to describe a good looking woman.

The_Valeyard

Chicks



Sketch

quad_red

'Balubas' - ie. crazy, unhinged. "Yeah, he's balubas".

I never knew the origin and racist connotations of that until I saw a documentary on TG4 on the Niemba ambush as an adult
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemba_Ambush

'Noody naady' - ie. high maintenance, hard to deal with.

Long Time Lurker

Ecker [Homework]

As in " I didn't do me bleedin ecker "

Idle Passerby

Odus fell down wrote: »

French letters. I'm not sure what it says about the population of France or the postal service that they were equated with prophylactics

beause they were illegal here they had to be mail ordered and sent in the post. Probably from Britain rather than France but everyone knows the French were the sauciest manner of foreigner in yon days.

Baron Kurtz

Donnybrook: an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute. A brawl.

I doubt anyone ever actually used this word, but I like it.

keano_afc

Blaghard and gurrier. My grandparents were fond of these particular words.

Baron Kurtz

Gazump.

the groutch

Spa!

Sam Kade

Nice duds, nice clothes
I will in me bollocks, I will not
Pup, a brat

BattleCorp

keano_afc wrote: »

Blaghard and gurrier. My grandparents were fond of these particular words.

Blackguard is the proper word. Never pronounced like this though.

Sam Kade

Shift

BattleCorp

Sam Kade wrote: »

Shift

We still use that word down here in the sticks.

cowboyBuilder

nullzero wrote: »

Rapid or "rapeh" to describe something good.

Thats not used anymore ?

what a shame ...

How about "Sketch!" - to mean RUN !!!

that still used among the youth ?

pickarooney

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

Donnybrook: an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute. A brawl.

I doubt anyone ever actually used this word, but I like it.

Pete Campbell in Mad Men used it once.

bonzodog2

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

Donnybrook: an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute. A brawl.

I doubt anyone ever actually used this word, but I like it.

I just read this word in an ebook last night and wondered what it meant

pawrick

quad_red wrote: »

'Balubas' - ie. crazy, unhinged. "Yeah, he's balubas".

I never knew the origin and racist connotations of that until I saw a documentary on TG4 on the Niemba ambush as an adult
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemba_Ambush
.

I still hear that said occasionally around Athlone usually in reference to being drunk - you'll hear it in "garrison towns"