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Words no longer used.....

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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Rig out, as in an entire outfit.

    Tog out

    Togged out


    Set Jon Up

    Offer it up.

    Grit your teeth. (Millenials are more comfort creatures)


  • #53
    TP_CM
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭TP_CM


    Snogging, courting, thrice.


  • #54
    SpitfireIV
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    'going steady' in reference to a couple 'courting' or 'doing a line', i guess the latter has come to mean something else these days.


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    You don't hear Gurrier so often any more.

    Or Scallywag


  • #56
    The Continental Op
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    On that theme

    Rapscallion

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    You don't hear Gurrier so often any more.
    Not a fan of Liveline?

    It does be wall-to-wall gurriers and young pups.

    The habitual present, "does be", that's another one. I do be using that now and again.


  • #58
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    branie2 wrote: »
    Thy
    Thou
    Thee


    Around parts of Yorkshire you'd still here some folks talking like this.


  • #59
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Wibbs wrote: »
    the "shores" instead of "drains", IE the shore's blocked again, I haven't heard in while. Bowler for a dog was another. Though I think both are/were more Dublin based.

    Ha! 90 year old mother in law used that very word the other night , asking my daughter if she still had the foster greyhound. Poor 30 year old daughter had no idea what granny was talking about. Although, I've never heard the m.i.l. using that word before, in the 47 years I've known her.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
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    Cohort! I fcuking hate that word, seems to be all over Irish media, never hear it on UK media!


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  • #61
    landofthetree
    Registered Users Posts: 2,362 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    Parlour


  • #62
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭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?


  • #63
    [Deleted User]
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    Jam rag!


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
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    Victualler, apothecary!


  • #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.


  • #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:

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    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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


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


  • #70
    [Deleted User]
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    Rapt audience


  • #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.


  • #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.


  • #74
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 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.



  • #75
    Filmer Paradise
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    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.


  • #76
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Vice

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

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



  • #77
    mistersifter
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    Poxbottle


  • #78
    Lewis_Benson
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    Please
    Thank you


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
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    mistersifter wrote: »
    Poxbottle

    Fantastic word.


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


  • #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


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
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    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    embiggen

    That's a perfectly cromulent word..


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


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


  • #86
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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"


  • #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


  • #88
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #89
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Someone that actually "died".

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


  • #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




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

    Orangrade.


  • #92
    angel eyes 2012
    Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    Floppy disk
    The pipe is gone (as in TV signal)
    Building Society
    Commerce as a school subject


  • #93
    blackvalley
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    mistersifter wrote: »
    Poxbottle

    Along the same lines is that great word " shytehalk "


  • #94
    Dempo1
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    Gick, my all time favourite but rarely used

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • #95
    blackvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 706 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    Toerag


  • #96
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Dempo1 wrote: »
    Gick, my all time favourite but rarely used

    Still very much alive in parts of South Dublin. Terenure College is known as ‘The Gick’.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • #97
    Archeron
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    Flumps


  • #98
    Mimon
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    angel eyes 2012 wrote: »
    Floppy disk
    The pipe is gone (as in TV signal)
    Building Society
    Commerce as a school subject

    Ah, thanks for reminding me of pipe tv. There was a local one in our town that the lad in the TV shop set up by running cables all across the roofs to peoples houses from his satellite dish :)

    Think my parent paid about 30 pounds a year for it.

    Remember having Sky way before most of the country.


  • #99
    SpitfireIV
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    Carburator, points and choke words used, often in frustration, by the motorist up to relatively recent years...


  • #100
    Nozebleed
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    blouse


  • #101
    Dempo1
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    blackvalley wrote: »
    Toerag

    Actually used that word earlier :)

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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