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    #62
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Wibbs wrote: »
    You don't hear Gurrier so often any more.

    Indeed, I've oft wondered of late, where have all the gurriers gone?


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    #63
    [Deleted User]
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    Jam rag!


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    #64
    [Deleted User]
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    Victualler, apothecary!


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    #65
    Yurt2
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    zorro2566 wrote: »
    Cohort! I fcuking hate that word, seems to be all over Irish media, never hear it on UK tv!


    It's not a Pat Kenny broadcast unless he says cohort. It's his shorthand for scallywags or people that don't live in Dalkey.


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    #66
    SpitfireIV
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    My Gran was a maid in a reasonable sized house, i expect that where she got the word from but she's always refer to the room in her house that we'd now call the kitchen, the 'scullery'.

    Other words; cassette and VHS


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    #67
    EmmetSpiceland
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    NickNickleby wrote: »
    Indeed, I've oft wondered of late, where have all the gurriers gone?

    This lad wrote a book about them:

    414KAxxBeFL._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

    The tide is turning…



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    #68
    [Deleted User]
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    thermal paper as sold for thermal printing printers.


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    #69
    Westernyelp
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    Latcheko was another one. Various spellings. Great word


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    #70
    [Deleted User]
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    Rapt audience


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    #71
    silliussoddius
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    scotchy wrote: »
    Discotheque.

    .

    Slow set/erection section


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    #72
    salmocab
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    I’m reading my son the famous five books and the language is so dated. They use some words in ways they’d never be used anymore. They say ‘rather’ a lot to mean they like the sound of it or yes please. They say your mum is a brick to mean she’s great. Some of it is charming in an old fashioned way and some is quite odd.


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    #73
    [Deleted User]
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    salmocab wrote: »
    I’m reading my son the famous five books and the language is so dated. They use some words in ways they’d never be used anymore. They say ‘rather’ a lot to mean they like the sound of it or yes please. They say your mum is a brick to mean she’s great. Some of it is charming in an old fashioned way and some is quite odd.

    Just try some Secret Seven Adventures with him.


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    #74
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I'd still use sleeveen, bowsie, banjaxed and gallavanting to some degree as would friends of mine. Not as often as years back mind you. Different kettle of fish would be a common one.

    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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    #75
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    SpitfireIV wrote: »
    My Gran was a maid in a reasonable sized house, i expect that where she got the word from but she's always refer to the room in her house that we'd now call the kitchen, the 'scullery'.

    Nah. The modern term for scullery would be the all important 'utility room' especially if it has a sink in it.


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    #76
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,933 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Vice

    Devices (in the sense of a plan or strategy not a gadget)

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



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    #77
    mistersifter
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    Poxbottle


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    #78
    Lewis_Benson
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    Please
    Thank you


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    #79
    [Deleted User]
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    mistersifter wrote: »
    Poxbottle

    Fantastic word.


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    #80
    [Deleted User]
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    I still use the term " molly bawn"


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    #81
    [Deleted User]
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    smut

    a snook


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    #82
    SpitfireIV
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    smut

    Blue movie


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    #83
    [Deleted User]
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    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    embiggen

    That's a perfectly cromulent word..


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    #84
    NSAman
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    Imperturbability … haven’t heard it used since I last used it


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    #85
    [Deleted User]
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    Ken Mc Carthy wrote: »
    I still use the term " molly bawn"
    What does it mean?


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    #86
    [Deleted User]
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    What does it mean?

    Think it came from a folk song circa 40s,50s........"Molly bawn" is simply someone( male or female) giving you the run around, as in messing you about........ say you were on phone to customer services & getting passed around without any progress/ success.....you'd say " they're playing Molly bawn with me"


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    #87
    silliussoddius
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    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Nah. The modern term for scullery would be the all important 'utility room' especially if it has a sink in it.

    Wet room


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    #88
    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Every article i read about music,,eg its pop singers stans like her new music,
    eg it seems to be illegal to use the word fan.
    As in i,m a fan of taylor swift.
    stan brings to mind some enimem type weirdo whos obessed with a singer.
    its like 1984 ,the word no longer exists.
    betamax. vhs. 8 track.
    video nasty, from the 80s.


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    #89
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,761 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Someone that actually "died".

    They're all "passed away" or even "passed" now.
    "Passed" makes me thing they have excreted something.


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    #90
    Leg End Reject
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    You don't hear Gurrier so often any more.
    Cur was another commonly used one, I haven't heard it in years.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



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    #91
    Speak Now
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Just try some Secret Seven Adventures with him.

    Orangrade.


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