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  • #32
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    Someone told me before it was an old Dutch sailor slang word for Prostitute. because all the Prostitutes would hang around the Gas Street Lamps waiting for customers.


  • #33
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Lauder wrote: »
    No its not. It's still heard commonly enough in the East end, so obviously not from the Irish 'maith'.

    Have come across the Victorian 'vaginal' slang explanation before so seems correct.

    Have you heard it down the east end yourself then me old china etc?


  • #34
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Cianos wrote: »
    Like they did with New Yorkers saying "You dig?"...from the Irish immigrants saying "An dtuigeann tú?", from what I've heard.

    Or hooligan. :pac:

    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hooligan


  • #35
    Caraville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    The Tories (as in Conservatives) owe their name to Irish- it means "to pursue", coming from "Tóir"

    My favourite one (cos it's a cool word) is "Kybosh" (sometimes Kibosh) comes from the Irish "an chaidhp bháis" meaning "the death cap"- so when you put the kybosh on something, you're finishing it off.

    As for mot, I don't really like that word. Or the Cork one, beour or whatever.


  • #36
    secrecy_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭secrecy_ie


    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mot

    See 1 here. I particularly like their second example of using it in a phrase.


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  • #37
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    It's yer mot, not moth!!!


  • #38
    gooseyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭gooseyd


    moh or moth = my other half


  • #39
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,447 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Necro-thread locked.


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