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    #212
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Chisellers when referring to young children(usually boys)

    Maggotty or mouldy for someone who is very drunk, fluthered for someone who is drunk but not quite maggotty or mouldy.

    Guther as a suggestive statement towards a female, as in " get up on your guther Mary Anne"

    Louser = someone untrustworthy.

    Gonch = idiot.


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    #213
    Gorteen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    Ha'porth

    From "Half-pennys worth".. meaning almost nothing


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    #214
    indioblack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭indioblack


    Happenstance : Chance, serendipity, fortuity. Looked up some synonyms! Never heard of fortuity.
    Provender . First heard it used in "The History of Mr. Polly". Food, sustenance, [the second would be my understanding of the word]. Animal fodder as well.


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    #215
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Gramophone.


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    #216
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Redolent

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #217
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Janey Mack

    Palavar

    Ekker (homework)

    bowsie

    buckled (verb, seems to have been replaced by locked)

    use your loaf ect

    motor car

    mickey monk


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    #218
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Gramophone.
    Wireless

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #219
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,549 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Janey Mac me shirt is black,
    What'll I do for Sunday?
    Go to bed and cover your head,
    And don't get up till Monday.


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    #220
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,257 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Radiogram

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #221
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    Radiogram

    Had to google it, didn't know that unit had a name. Very neat :)

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #222
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I wonder if I watched Minder or Only Fools & Horses now with someone born in the noughties how much of the slang would totally pass them by...
    Plonker for example, and the cockney rhyming slang (I think I even struggled with some of them back in the 80s).

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #223
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Mahogany gaspipe.

    The tide is turning…



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    #224
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,780 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Omnibus.
    Charabanc.
    Motor Spirit.


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    #225
    Fils
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Fils


    Moist
    Undercarriage


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    #226
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Omnibus.
    Charabanc.
    Motor Spirit.

    I think we were looking for words used since the war.
    :)

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #227
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,780 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I think we were looking for words used since the war.
    :)

    The Great War?


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    #228
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    The Great War?

    What's that?
    :)

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #229
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,549 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I think we were looking for words used since the war.
    :)

    Omnibus has been used extensively on Boards over the last few years. As lately as two months ago, in the sense of the vehicle which is now called simply a bus. The other usage "omnibus edition" is common also.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116982698


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    #230
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    My late grandmother, talking about The Great War \ World War One would describe it as being fought against the Prussians rather than Germans.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #231
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,824 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    Chisellers when referring to young children(usually boys)

    Maggotty or mouldy for someone who is very drunk, fluthered for someone who is drunk but not quite maggotty or mouldy.

    Guther as a suggestive statement towards a female, as in " get up on your guther Mary Anne"

    Louser = someone untrustworthy.

    Gonch = idiot.

    A teacher used to refer to us as lousers... “I gave you no homework and instead asked you to study for this test, and fellas here, five of yiz failed and five of yous got 80% or more, the rest, bang average, bunch of lousers...


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    #232
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Strumms wrote: »
    A teacher used to refer to us as lousers... “I gave you no homework and instead asked you to study for this test, and fellas here, five of yiz failed and five of yous got 80% or more, the rest, bang average, bunch of lousers...

    Was used to describe someone with red hair when I was growing up.

    The tide is turning…



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    #233
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Living in sin

    Fornicate ( apart from Mayo politicians)


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    #234
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users Posts: 4,808 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    Lachico.

    Generally used by a dad describing a messer or an eejit.


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    #235
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,040 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Scoundrel
    Canoodle
    Langer


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    #236
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Are the haberdasheries open again since lockdown?


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    #237
    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    Gossen or gossun.
    Is it out of use now?
    My grandad used to use it when he was talking about a young fellow.
    I thing it was originally from French, Garçon.


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    #238
    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    mod as in follower of fashion ,eg mods and rockers from the 60s.


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    #239
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Scoundrel
    Canoodle
    Langer

    First two for sure, but I understand Langer is still going strong in Cork, they have their own ways there, south of the wall.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #240
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,973 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    riclad wrote: »
    mod as in follower of fashion ,eg mods and rockers from the 60s.

    Unless Paul Weller is about.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #241
    chosen1
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭chosen1


    Kewreeuss wrote: »
    Gossen or gossun.
    Is it out of use now?
    My grandad used to use it when he was talking about a young fellow.
    I thing it was originally from French, Garçon.

    Still going strong in the midlands anyway.


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