Words or phrases you don't use anymore?

Xivilai · 07-02-2011 06:01PM

"ye" when addressing more than one person.

I finally found out that its petty much an extinct word. Its from middle English but is still used here.

we'llallhavetea_old · 07-02-2011 06:03PM

Xivilai wrote: »

"ye" when addressing more than one person.

I finally found out that its petty much an extinct word

i still use that

Gaudizeit · 07-02-2011 06:58PM

Xivilai wrote: »

"ye" when addressing more than one person.

I finally found out that its petty much an extinct word. Its from middle English but is still used here.

what's the alternative??? The Dublin version where they say you's?

the purple tin · 07-02-2011 07:08PM

Flip off.

Dudess · 07-02-2011 07:12PM

"Clunge" isn't a word people don't use anymore.

Referring to a hot person as a ride seems to have fizzled out.

Ditch · 07-02-2011 07:13PM

Xivilai wrote: »

"ye" when addressing more than one person.

I finally found out that its petty much an extinct word. Its from middle English but is still used here.

I never knew that. I use " Ye ", much of the time, whether referring to one or more persons. I write it because that's how I speak. I don't pronounce " You " like 'U'.

I actually started typing this in response to others typing " Ya ". I thought only Americans said that for 'You'. I wished to differentiate myself from them but still liked the idea of typing as I sounded.

Trouble is; Many people suppose my 'ye' mean't to sound like the Hammer Horror type "ye(e)"

Sorry. I'm boring my own arse off now. But, thanks for the interesting heads up.

Gaudizeit · 07-02-2011 07:14PM

Dudess wrote: »

"Clunge" isn't a word people don't use anymore.

Referring to a hot person as a ride seems to have fizzled out.

you're hanging around the wrong people.

Aishae · 07-02-2011 07:15PM

havent said deaaaaaadly in years! i used to be the biggest 'deadlier's on the block, you'd hear me screaming it from around the corner.

rebel10 · 07-02-2011 07:19PM

"Would you like to ride with batman?" (though i'm female, didn't work really):o

Shift, as in "Did you shift him?" or "Get off" as an alternative

Buzz off

proon4 · 07-02-2011 07:20PM

Im showing me age.... " Goodnight George" as in you cant be serious.

"Stop de Lights"....... as in,, say no more

"Get up tha yard " .... as in ..get out of it I dont believe ya

Aishae · 07-02-2011 07:27PM

two of my fave slang words - scratcher and bin lids. i actually hate the way so many words in slang are converted in to some other term that sounds like the word but definitely doesnt make sense. but bin lids is gas cos it makes me think of 'ill bleedin' batter / clatter you' (granny years ago) makes me think of bin lids.

theres not many terms i no longer use - i wont throw away a good phrase till its worn out :pac:
although i dont think ive heard 'giz a shufty' in years

Sunnyisland · 07-02-2011 07:33PM

sketch (run)

Lob (look out boy)

shades (guards)

allandanyways · 07-02-2011 07:39PM

Whopper as in "Jayz lads that film is fookin whopper!" or "She's feckin whopper, I'd love to meet her".

Was all the rage when I was a teenager, even had "whopper" tippexed on the back of my school journal because I was clearly mad ouvveh.

proon4 · 07-02-2011 07:43PM

"Steamer".... a gay guy but also a cigarette

"Give us a drag " .... asking your mate for a smoke of his cigarette

Run_to_da_hills · 07-02-2011 07:58PM

My Grandma had some classic expressions, "What the Dickens" "You will have square eyes from watching too much TV", rectangular eyes these days.

Debthree · 07-02-2011 08:11PM

"I'm wall-falling for a cup of tea." [I desperately want a cup of tea]

"THAT'S why." [In response to "Why?" - children used to say that a lot in the 80s]

we'llallhavetea_old · 07-02-2011 08:23PM

haha, i just remembered one, shouting "NOT!!!" after something you didn't mean. fcukin hell that one was relentless.

Holybejaysus · 07-02-2011 08:36PM

I remember a brief period circa 1994 when the big thing was to tell someone to rack off. Home and Away was big back then.

Oh, and another thing you don't hear much nowadays is 'woe betide' if you do something bad. The auld wans were made for that..

dj jarvis · 07-02-2011 08:40PM

ill give ya a puck in the mouth !!

hows the car hanging ?

shake a shamrock for ireland !!

next on it ( smoking )

bagsy that

esso tiger tokens / green shield stamps

giving butter vouchers for ten major

now yer suckin diesel

and on and on and on !!!

orourkeda · 07-02-2011 08:40PM

proon4 wrote: »

"Steamer".... a gay guy but also a cigarette

"Give us a drag " .... asking your mate for a smoke of his cigarette

I still have to use buy your own you bollocks to people, even though I don;t smoke. Thats how desperate some smokers get

orourkeda · 07-02-2011 08:41PM

Anyone stopped saying "to arthur" when St Arthurs Day comes around yet.

And by extension to martha

mikemac · 07-02-2011 08:42PM

It's lunchtime, I'll bate (spelt as you say it) off to the shops
Nothing wrong with announcing you were bateing off somewhere at a given time

Just means you plan to go there

orourkeda · 07-02-2011 08:43PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

My Grandma had some classic expressions, "What the Dickens" "You will have square eyes from watching too much TV", rectangular eyes these days.

Or a big plasma, LCD head on you.

we'llallhavetea_old · 07-02-2011 08:45PM

"yellow reg" *SMACK* "no return!"

Inbox · 07-02-2011 08:46PM

Scran

mikemac · 07-02-2011 08:50PM

That was pure scandelous
Everything was pure scandelous around 1994

Dat's right and knuckle down too around 1998 from D'Unbelievables

RussellTuring · 08-02-2011 01:44AM

Gaudizeit wrote: »

what's the alternative??? The Dublin version where they say you's?

"You".

rebel10 wrote: »

"Would you like to ride with batman?" (though i'm female, didn't work really):o

Shift, as in "Did you shift him?" or "Get off" as an alternative

Buzz off

You just reminded me of "wear". As in "I'd wear the face of that bird".

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

My Grandma had some classic expressions, "What the Dickens" "You will have square eyes from watching too much TV", rectangular eyes these days.

Believe it or not, "what the Dickens" is a Shakespeare quote. I only discovered this when I went to The Globe the Summer before last.

I can't believe I forgot "banjaxed". Haven't really heard this in a while.

hiscan · 08-02-2011 01:51AM

Holybejaysus wrote: »

I remember a brief period circa 1994 when the big thing was to tell someone to rack off. Home and Away was big back then.

Oh, and another thing you don't hear much nowadays is 'woe betide' if you do something bad. The auld wans were made for that..

You have a very apt Username for this Thread

Dunjohn · 08-02-2011 02:16AM

"Gifted" - as in, "The new Sega Megadrive looks gifted."
"Jibing" - As in, "Quit jibing me, it won't have Mario!"

TeddyTedson · 08-02-2011 02:18AM

Rules, everything ruled for a while as a kid.

Words or phrases you don't use anymore?

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