Melojin??? wtf?? Does this word exist???

Saruman · 19-03-2003 4:07pm #1

Right one of the guys i work with always uses this word... However i never knew what it meant! So i did a search on Google AND Yahoo and the only place on the web that knows what it is!! Of course its the Eircom League!! One hit.

Dictionary.com has no idea what im on about....

At least ONE other person has heard of it.. i think he heard the other guy use it thought...

So anyone heard it??? Its used in the context of bad or Shíte,
"That team was Melojin!"

Gordon · 19-03-2003 4:09pm

How do you pronounce it out of curiosity?

Mellow gin?

Saruman · 19-03-2003 4:16pm

thats it yes but faster... try Millow-Gin but fast... It is spelt right unless its also spelt wrong on the eircom site... google finds NO vatiations..

Oh one of the other guys in work knows the word too! So we have 3 in work who have heard of it.. but it does not seem to exist!

Thorbar · 19-03-2003 4:17pm

Its not showing up on dictonary.com, is it slang?

ballooba · 19-03-2003 4:19pm

Think someone is taking the p*ss.

Melodian said with a strange accent.

[edit] like meedja for media [/edit]

Saruman · 19-03-2003 4:23pm

I did say i tried dictionary.com to no avail.. also the collins dictionary too..

oh and eh.. from dictionary.com

No entry found for Melodian.

Nice one ballooba

Riamfada · 19-03-2003 4:25pm

sounds like country talk to me maylow-hin rosie.

Saruman · 19-03-2003 4:33pm

Bet this Eircom League guy said it one day... then my m8 just picked it up and started using it.. and a few others have used it... one day it may be in the dictionary but i dont think its there yet!!

Thorbar · 19-03-2003 4:37pm

Originally posted by Saruman

I did say i tried dictionary.com to no avail.. also the collins dictionary too..

Sorry it was early in the morning when I posted that Yankee time.
Barry

ballooba · 19-03-2003 4:39pm

Originally posted by Saruman

I did say i tried dictionary.com to no avail.. also the collins dictionary too..

oh and eh.. from dictionary.com

Nice one ballooba

Me fail english.. thats unpossible.

Gordon · 19-03-2003 4:43pm

Cant find it here...
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~nobyrne/m.htm
http://www.at.artslink.co.za/~gerry/irisha_m.htm

Krusty_Clown · 19-03-2003 4:52pm

Melodian
n.
1.a. A cute grey cat with big pointy ears, of Finnish origin.
1.b. A herd of 'said' cute grey cats.

bug · 19-03-2003 4:55pm

Its a Dublin coloqialism.

There's a real Dub poem for kids that starts with,

Skinny melink, melojin legs, um-ber-ella feet,
went to the pic-tures and couldn't get a seat........it goes on.

Saruman · 19-03-2003 5:01pm

Nice one bug.. looks like the mystery has been solved!! Its not real at all

bug · 19-03-2003 5:06pm

the rest of the poem is about farting....

mooman_00 · 19-03-2003 5:06pm

if it sounds like mello-gin said fast than its a word that older country folk used for various different things,
like
A: squeeze box, melojin = Accordian
B: fiddle, melojin = Violin
C: Anything else you care to use it for = many possible answers

seriously its an auld country word that has no definite meaning all though ive never heard it being used to describe sth as being good or bad....

BigEejit · 19-03-2003 5:07pm

I know a few people who say that something was "cat melojin", knew it meant bad but didn't know where it came from ....

Abraxas · 19-03-2003 5:07pm

Not sure about it being purely a Dub thing. It used to be quite common around the south east, but was usually heard as cat-melojin or catamelojint. Same context as above.

bug · 19-03-2003 5:14pm

everyone must be really bored -or wasting a few minutes before they go home from work:D

violin legs makes more sense than rotten legs alright..no it doesn't...its a kids poem

mooman_00 · 19-03-2003 5:26pm

hey i was a bard back in 1870 i think i have experience in this matter............:D i think i have melojin legs, there is sth wrong with them anyway....

Dun · 19-03-2003 6:39pm

A 'melojin' where I come from is an accordian - I've only ever heard button ones referred to as a 'melojin', never a keyboard one. And that's the way we'd say (well the auld wans) would say it up here in Donegal. It is a proper word though, spelt Melodeon. Google it - comes up with sites from all over the globe.

Never heard it used in any derogatory sense though. Perhaps it's something like making a song and dance of something. You know how easy it is for an accordian to get on your nerves! Well, mine anyway.

(Edit: Oops - forgot we're not allowed to use google as a verb :rolleyes: )

po0k · 19-03-2003 8:50pm

Melojin's an instrument, just like dun_do_bheal said above.

Like a concertina.

Space Coyote · 20-03-2003 2:11am

i thought everyone would have heard the word 'melojin' used before...deffo have heard it used in a derogatory sense, ie. that's feckin melojin that is...nobody uses the word these days, but it was deffo used in the 80's around these parts (kildare/dublin/meath) area...

Saruman · 20-03-2003 8:47am

Glad thats been sorted as everyone who knows it here in work is from Kildare or Dublin.

As you can tell i was bored in work yesterday...:D

pickarooney · 20-03-2003 9:25am

I thought Melodeon was a brand name for the simple squeeze-box with hexagonal ends and no keys.
Cat-Melodeon presumably was originally used to describe an awful sound such as a cat in heat wailing while being accompanied (badly) on a concertina.

dougal · 20-03-2003 10:14am

Actually the word is derived from the french Mal Argent used to describe someone whose wealth was obtained from criminal activity.
C'est Mal Argent would be thus pronounced in the midlands as That's Malogent which seems to be take up here as Melojin.

gogo · 20-03-2003 12:59pm

Originally posted by dougal

C'est Mal Argent would be thus pronounced in the midlands as That's Malogent which seems to be take up here as Melojin.

i don't know of your pulling the piss or if the above is actually true, but i'm from the midlands and we use the word melojin all the time. If someone is really drunk we say he is completely malojined. Or if you get hurt or hit again you would say he was malojined.

Never actually wrote the word down before though. looks odd.

malojined:p

gogo

DMT · 20-03-2003 11:01pm

Originally posted by Gordon
How do you pronounce it out of curiosity?

Mellow gin?

It's meh-LOW-gin = Sharon Shannon squeeze-box

MrScruff · 21-03-2003 1:17am

I use that word all the time, except you must prefix it with the word "cat", most of my buddies say it too.
example.
me:How did ya get on in town last night?
buddy: CAT MOLODGIN altogether!!, was langerated and some mahoosive langer of a bouncer kicked me out!

translation: It was a negative experience on the whole, i was ejected forcefully from the premises by a member of the security personel while heavily sedated

i would prenounce it mell-O-jen btw

dougal · 28-03-2003 4:59pm

Just noticed this from this weeks Munster Express (Waterford Newspaper)

A smile amid the chaos
Contempt is too nice a word to use about the person or persons who telephoned the South Eastern Health Board with a bomb hoax on Thursday last but I couldn't help but raise a smile as I listened to some of the evacuated patients talking on WLRfm. "Twas a disgrace, it was pure catmalogin", said one woman, and I couldn't remember how long it was since I heard somebody use that old Waterford expression.

Lafortezza · 28-03-2003 5:09pm

as packie bonner said in the phoenix park, "Thats uncredible"

the Guru · 28-03-2003 5:13pm

I have heard beforre in Lucan people saying I got kicked in the melogin so it could be another word for balls or pecker or something to that effect

or I could be completly wrong which I most likely am

eddiesheridan · 30-03-2003 4:41pm

This is one of brian kerrs favourite words and expect to hear it in the meeja everytime Ireland loses.

evie · 31-03-2003 8:10am

Milogin???!!
Never spelt it before but have used it many times.
=Squeeze box
=awful noise
"what a load of Melogin" = What a load of awful noise.

Melojin??? wtf?? Does this word exist???

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