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Where did "Happy out" come from??!

SomeDude

I hear a lot of people using the phrase "happy out", or "busy out".

Does anyone know the origin of these expressions

I cringe everytime I hear someone use them.

I'm no professor of English, but me do be thinking it is no proper English.....

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consultech

SomeDude wrote: »

I hear a lot of people using the phrase "happy out", or "busy out".

Does anybody know the origins of these expressions I cringe everytime I hear someone use them.

I'm no professor of English, but me do be thinking it is no proper English.....

Thank You. I first heard this saying just before Christmas, and thought it was an English thing (heard it from an English person). I must have been totally ignorant to it because I hear it on a weekly basis all over now that I'm aware of it. It annoys me too for some reason.

The Rook

consultech wrote: »

No, it's no.

I think (just a slight hint due to the syntax of the entire last sentence) that the OP may have intended that !!

Menengroth™

don't know who you hang around with but I have never heard that before.

3qsmavrod5twfe

SomeDude wrote: »

I hear a lot of people using the phrase "happy out"

It's when one of the dwarves finally admitted he was gay.

He was Happy, out, and very happy. It all stemmed from there.

Gone Drinking

Ricky Martin's happy out

[Deleted User]

SomeDude wrote: »

I hear a lot of people using the phrase "happy out"... Does anyone know the origin of these expressions?

Consult Guinness

Noopti

Culchies?

Xavi6

It's a horrible expression that I've only heard used by culchies, and it's usually followed by the word "like".

/shudder

WindSock

Maybe it stems from 'Sound out'

Culchie: 'Oh she's sound out, she is. Face on her like a badgers arse, but I'd still roide 'er'.

wayne0308

I've been using and hearing "happy out" as long as I can remember. Now that you mention it I've not heard it many times in Dublin. Never took much notice of it to be honest.

petes

Some dude came up with them.

MaybeLogic

I never heard it till now, tbh.
Must be culchie-speak.

youcancallmeal

Maybe it evolved from the phrase 'Mad out of it' which does make a little bit of sense?

NoDice

I'm happy out using the words "happy out"!

I don't see anything wrong with it..

Like we definately say "like" too much..

Also, my hungarian friend thinks alot of what we say is "cringe-worthy".

We sit down, put our lunch on the table and say for no reason "now!".. Why do we say that?

Or instead of saying goodbye to a friend we say "go on"..

alwaysadub

i've only heard that since i moved to Galway. Must be a culchie thing alright.

Noopti

NoDice wrote: »

Or instead of saying goodbye to a friend we say "go on"..

"Go on"??

Never heard that before....

yermandan

I'd imagine its along the same lines as when someone says 'worn out', no?

Canis Lupus

It's a bogger thing although I mostly hear it from Corkish people and we all know they're weird so.....

Minstrel27

Happy out is something I hear all the time. It must be due to me being a muck savage and not residing in the big smoke :rolleyes:

NoDice

Noopti wrote: »

"Go on"??

Never heard that before....

Maybe it's a Cork thing? Can anyone from Cork back that up if they've heard it?

I hear it nearly every day, I never say it myself though. I'd be leaving work, stop to talk to one of my friends, I'd say "I really have to go now bye" and she'll say "alright go on so".

But alot of people just say "go on so" without the conversation at all..

yermandan wrote: »

I'd imagine its along the same lines as when someone says 'worn out', no?

Really good point! Makes sense too!

Theta

Yeah only ever heard it from a few lads in work from Mayo and Limerick.

They even use sound out! Its just sound.

enda1

Wexford people definitely.

Same people who say "quare good", and pronounce "one" as "wan".

NoDice

Canis Lupus wrote: »

It's a bogger thing although I mostly hear it from Corkish people and we all know they're weird so.....

Every county has their own slang which other counties generally regard as funny/weird..

NoDice

Theta wrote: »

Yeah only ever heard it from a few lads in work from Mato and Limerick.

They even use sound out! Its just sound.

Ha ha ha!! Yeah it's just sound but I know I've said "ya he's sound out" before.. CRINGE!!!

Canis Lupus

NoDice wrote: »

Every county has their own slang which other counties generally regard as funny/weird..

Yeah but Cork is the worst.

Noopti

NoDice wrote: »

I'd be leaving work, stop to talk to one of my friends, I'd say "I really have to go now bye" and she'll say "alright go on so".

And your response would obviously be "Eh, I wasn't looking for permission biatch"?

Seriously though, if someone responded like that to me I would think they were taking the piss, or else actually felt agrieved that I was leaving...

pickarooney

"That bate all out" is another one.

dario28

Nothing worse than hearing a Dub saying Happy Out or Sound Out

Its widespread down the country and slowly filtering into Dublin....disaster !

Biggins

We won't be hearing Tom Cruise saying one of those phrases soon I suspect!

Fulton Crown

Yeah culchie thing all right - first heard it down Limerick way - was walking behind two big buttocked milfs in Lim - they were discussing their children and one of them had passed an exam.

"You must be proud out !" says the other - would have scooted on past them but I hadnt quite finished admiring their buttocks.

Another phrase they used that annoys the sh1t outa me is the use of the word "left".

Now I would say "I brought her home" whereas they said "I left her home"
Or " I left him down"

Pure annoying ! Crackin butts though - I could almost forgive them