New Words ...

gozunda

Learnt a new word today -

dysphemism

Meaning a derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one.

So describes something like 'ye frckers'

Anyone else got any other interesting words - :pac:

Lime Tree Farm

gozunda wrote: »

Learnt a new word today -

dysphemism

Meaning a derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one.

So describes something like 'ye frckers'

Anyone else got any other interesting words - :pac:

I googled it for examples: "These are examples of dysphemism: Snail mail for postal mail, Cancer stick in reference to a cigarette. Egghead for genius. Worm food for dead."

we have been using it all along without realising: "he got a navy blue" for a heart attack.

I says

Brown bread = dead.

Lime Tree Farm

how to pronounce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_z0Bwhtg0

Lady Haywire

Two I can think of straight away which I love are 'Petrichor'- the smell of the air after a dry spell followed by rain. That's one which has a scientific base behind it but not bothered googling it!

And leaping over a language here 'tsundoku' which is a person who collects loads of books & reading materials but never gets around to reading them all before buying more. I've a terrible habit of doing that.

I love words. I'll be in this thread a lot if it stays active

Say my name

I learned a new word yesterday.

A 'Guggy' egg.

It's an egg or eggs in a mug..

Lady Haywire

Say my name wrote: »

I learned a new word yesterday.

A 'Guggy' egg.

It's an egg or eggs in a mug..

Cheeky.....:P

gozunda

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

how to pronounce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_z0Bwhtg0

Sounds fecken weird :pac:

NcdJd

Guggy egg, haven't heard that word in years !!

I says

Say my name wrote: »

I learned a new word yesterday.

A 'Guggy' egg.

It's an egg or eggs in a mug..

Years since I heard that

patsy_mccabe

My new word - Malakia. Its the Greek for Sh1te.
Had to laugh at this as my Grandmother used to call cat's poo , cat's Malaka.
Well, they do say all languages are related.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sG1IH1vCvko&list=FLlDUYWg4lJYkQS-VwtsR7mQ&index=14

gozunda

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

My new word - Malakia. Its the Greek for Sh1te.
Had to laugh at this as my Grandmother used to call cat's poo , cat's Malaka.
Well, they do say all languages are related.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sG1IH1vCvko&list=FLlDUYWg4lJYkQS-VwtsR7mQ&index=14

Ah we used that term growing up as well. Haven't heard it in years!

NcdJd

Anthropomorphising - to attribute human form or personality to things not human or inanimate objects.

Example: my pet rock looks sad today.

Robbed from the real Irish Donald Trump in the vegan forum.

gozunda

Thats a good one NcdJd

Some great idioms that online dictionaries now give you :pac:

For example:

Deranged"

(as) mad as a hatter/March hare 
around the bend 
bat**** crazy
battle-scarred
crackers
disturbed
gaga
have bats in the belfry
whack job

The Rabbi

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

My new word - Malakia. Its the Greek for Sh1te.
Had to laugh at this as my Grandmother used to call cat's poo , cat's Malaka.
Well, they do say all languages are related.

Dogs malakey and cats malogen
Put them together and get an expolsion.

Anyone remember that ditty from your school days?

NcdJd

Gimbal - a device for keeping an instrument such as a compass or chronometer horizontal in a moving vessel or aircraft, typically consisting of rings pivoted at right angles.

No idea what led me to this video, but saw the word in one of the comments.

https://twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/1297267633289560064?s=20

gozunda

NcdJd wrote: »

Gimbal - a device for keeping an instrument such as a compass or chronometer horizontal in a moving vessel or aircraft, typically consisting of rings pivoted at right angles.

No idea what led me to this video, but saw the word in one of the comments.

https://twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/1297267633289560064?s=20

Haha

Reminds me of these

The second one is a cracker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz3pheXYiE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PQS8SFWNQw

Mac Taylor

Crocked Hilary, Sleepy Joe, China virus, Fake news, TWSS, EWSS, N factor, lockdown......I wish I never herd of any of them..:mad:

Lady Haywire

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Crocked Hilary, Sleepy Joe, China virus, Fake news, TWSS, EWSS, N factor, lockdown......I wish I never herd of any of them..:mad:

Wasn't there murder hornets at some stage this year too?

Lime Tree Farm

Nihilist - One who believes in nothing, maintaining that life has no meaning and rejecting all moral and religious values as well as political and social institutions.

patsy_mccabe

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Nihilist - One who believes in nothing, maintaining that life has no meaning and rejecting all moral and religious values as well as political and social institutions.

Sounds like most of the irish population.

gozunda

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Wasn't there murder hornets at some stage this year too?

Yeah I read reports of them in the US. They managed to get rid of the first reported nest there by using giant hoover type device to suck them all up. Really frightening yokes - they can sting and also spit vemon :eek:

In biology they are hymenopteran or hymenopteron

Meaning "insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing"

I'd just call them evil cnuts :pac:

Shawnee Poole

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Nihilist - One who believes in nothing, maintaining that life has no meaning and rejecting all moral and religious values as well as political and social institutions.

Any relation of Nihil Obstat that used to sign off all of the prayer books years ago.

kk.man

Here's one that really bugs me 'the home farm' meaning not the other farm. This term has been used widely in last few years. In all my time farming I'd refer to it as 'the home place'. I don't know how it crept into farmers speak.

NcdJd

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Nihilist - One who believes in nothing, maintaining that life has no meaning and rejecting all moral and religious values as well as political and social institutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_29yvYpf4w

gozunda

kk.man wrote: »

Here's one that really bugs me 'the home farm' meaning not the other farm. This term has been used widely in last few years. In all my time farming I'd refer to it as 'the home place'. I don't know how it crept into farmers speak.

Reminds me of the usage of the term "the back kitchen"

Lots of older houses had a "back kitchen" - seems to be disappearing somewhat.

Do any new houses have a "back kitchen"?

Lady Haywire

I was actually trying to explain the 'back kitchen' in my house to an Indian friend earlier. Had to use the word scullery to get the understanding across

keepalive213

'grape' a four pronged farm implement used for handling silage, straw, dung etc..
'pike' just like a grape but with just 2 prongs, mostly used for hay, straw and chasing dept inspectors.

paddysdream

keepalive213 wrote: »

'grape' a four pronged farm implement used for handling silage, straw, dung etc..
'pike' just like a grape but with just 2 prongs, mostly used for hay, straw and chasing dept inspectors.

Now,now ,now,everyone knows its a sprong that has 4 grains whilst the thing with 2 grains is a pitchfork.
There is a sprong, a beet sprong and a potato sprong.
Only implement I don't know what the correct name for is the 3 grained thing but then again never had one here.
A pike is the thing the Boys of Wexford pulled from the thatch in the Summer of 1798.
A grape is a fruit wine is made from.

Lime Tree Farm

gozunda wrote: »

Reminds me of the usage of the term "the back kitchen"

Lots of older houses had a "back kitchen" - seems to be disappearing somewhat.

Do any new houses have a "back kitchen"?

It hasn't disappeared, just renamed "utility room". as is the "piss pot" replaced by an "en suite".

NcdJd

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

It hasn't disappeared, just renamed "utility room". as is the "piss pot" replaced by an "en suite".

Remember when I was growing up most of the houses around our area including my grandfather's house had no indoor toilet. It was a little shed outside with a latch on the door and a large bucket with toilet seat on it. That was our "ensuite"!

Septic tank was a large hole out in the field where you'd get rid of it and cover over with some clay !