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The world "grushie"

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  • #62
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Premier league stickers were banned in my primary school because of them. There used to be carnage at lunchtime :pac:


  • #63
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I don't think the grusies were dangerous but the pile ups definitely were, how no-one was killed I would never know, some may have suffered a bit of anoxia and then brain damage, but you wouldn't have noticed that in my old school.


  • #64
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Caraville wrote: »
    This has to be a Dublin thing, I've never heard it before in my life.
    I'm from Dublin and I've never heard of either of them.


  • #65
    DEVEREUX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭DEVEREUX


    +1 for Grushie. (Rathmines/ Harolds Cross)

    Their used to be a hobo that wandered the area "The Halfpenny Man", pronounced Haepenny.
    The local kids would pester him for money so to rid himself of us he would throw up change and carnage would result. "GRUUUUSSSHIE" :D


  • #66
    PhlegmyMoses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Premier league stickers were banned in my primary school because of them. There used to be carnage at lunchtime :pac:

    25 Peter Fear stickers left on the ground as everybody already had him


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  • #67
    I_am_LOST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 250 ✭✭I_am_LOST


    It's gushie not grushie!

    And we did it for sweets in school :D


  • #68
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    It's "grushie"!:mad::pac:

    How do you add a poll after the thread has already been posted?


  • #69
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    44leto wrote: »
    I don't think the grusies were dangerous but the pile ups definitely were, how no-one was killed I would never know, some may have suffered a bit of anoxia and then brain damage, but you wouldn't have noticed that in my old school.

    :D


  • #70
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    Jesus OP, when you say "world" do ye actually mean "word"? Ye fecking idiot!
    ....oh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait!!!!!


  • #71
    dan185
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭dan185


    A family member did it at my parents wedding and smashed the wedding car window!:D


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  • #72
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    UglyBolloxFace wrote: »
    Jesus OP, when you say "world" do ye actually mean "word"? Ye fecking idiot!
    ....oh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait!!!!!

    Finally ...................http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78333295&postcount=5


  • #73
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Finally ...................http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78333295&postcount=5

    Hmmm...http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTj0pm3FMxpzgCM7ulmkQOM_he4ebcFGyDcH-KXYgQYP3X23UG4cF1F6w7FCA

    And yes, the "your" is intentional.


  • #74
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,828 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Gushie over here as well, another Northsider.

    From what I remember, nobody actually really cared about what was being thrown in, it was simply for a laugh and baiting the ****e out of each other and having a valid reason.

    Jocking was pretty popular too, got in some right crap with the principal for jocking a lad I hung around with in the middle of a huge yard in front of a female teachers. Cacks and all.


  • #75
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Gushie / North Dub / F

    Never heard of Grushie before.

    Is it a Dublin thing or do our bumpkin cousins have the words too?


  • #76
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    stetyrrell wrote: »
    Gushie over here as well, another Northsider.

    From what I remember, nobody actually really cared about what was being thrown in, it was simply for a laugh and baiting the ****e out of each other and having a valid reason.

    Jocking was pretty popular too, got in some right crap with the principal for jocking a lad I hung around with in the middle of a huge yard in front of a female teachers. Cacks and all.

    Yeah I remember jocking, but in my school we were even worse. We used to do "ball knock". Basically, walking by somebody, you quickly bounce/punch your knuckles off their bollocks. Very gay, yes, and very painful.


  • #77
    Satts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Satts


    Its Grushie, a Group rush.


  • #78
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Gushie. Like your ma.


  • #79
    Mance Rayder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    I saw the word grushie and came here looking for my free stuff, and I find this... What gives?


  • #80
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    All a bah!!!

    That's the cork slang.
    "All a bah for a bag o Meanies"
    Don't know that one.
    opinion guy wrote: »
    Not a single thanks ?? My comic talents are wasted on ye :mad:
    I didn't get it.


  • #81
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    The word is Grushie.
    It originates from a Scottish word and translates to mean "Healthy and Thriving".
    It probably came from Roman origin initially as there is evidence that the Romans had a similar tradition of "Throwing the Coin" at weddings.
    It's is reckoned that the Grushie tradition at Irish weddings came from Irish people who were living in England and saw this tradition of what the English called "Throwing The Coin" and which the English had taken from the Scots tradition of "Grushie".
    Obviously, the Irish people who returned home with this tradition wouldn't give the English the satisfaction of using the English term for it, so we used "Grushie"
    Phew:p


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  • #82
    Cicero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero


    stovelid wrote: »

    It was grushie.

    Also when the poor mug got his hand on the coin, everybody started jumping on him chanting Pile On, Pile On.

    ...which usually led to a wedgie ..


  • #83
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    Gushie - three schools in Dublin 12 (mine, my brothers and another one we went to for summer camps).

    Never heard of this money-at-a-wedding thing!
    We used the word at lunch-time in primary school and the early years of secondary school - when someone got something they didn't like for lunch and several people around them wanted it, they'd throw it in air and yell "gushie!". Whoever caught it, got it.


  • #84
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Dudess wrote: »
    Don't know that one.

    I didn't get it.

    I know. Noone did. A grammar nazi pun with a geeky Futurama reference in an AH thread full of grammar nazi discussion and no-one got it.
    You are slipping people of AH slipping.
    Blast yis with piss.
    Yore ma.


  • #85
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    languagenerd wrote: »
    Gushie - three schools in Dublin 12 (mine, my brothers and another one we went to for summer camps).

    I went to 3 schools in Dublin 12 too, and it was grushie. There was a fellow near where we lived and he used to throw money into the air. He was affectionately known as the grushie man.


    Also I've read through the thread and grushie is winning, and the proper etymology of the word is grushie as at least 3 posters have proved already.


  • #86
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Only people who started grushies were future heads of businesses who enjoyed watching people grovel for their money. Future little pudgy cùnts who stutter to reason and flatter to decieve


  • #87
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    im going to do it at my wedding in 5 weeks but im going to throw razor blades in the air for all the arklow kiddies to catch then im moving home to Dublin


  • #88
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Abi wrote: »
    What does the all a bah bit mean?

    I don't think it's the same as a Grushie which is done by someone else.

    It was a declaration that your crisps/sweets could be claimed by all and sundry. You would declare "All a bah for Monster Munch!" which let people know you'd be holding the bag out for people to take some.

    If you were trolling people you'd do the following.

    "All a bah!" and hold out the bag.

    Wait for someone to reach for one. Withdraw the bag and say

    "Mockeyah!!!" :pac:


  • #89
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Abi wrote: »
    What does the all a bah bit mean?

    I don't think it's the same as a Grushie which is done by someone else.

    It was a declaration that your crisps/sweets could be claimed by all and sundry. You would declare "All a bah for Monster Munch!" which let people know you'd be holding the bag out for people to take some.

    If you were trolling people you'd do the following.

    "All a bah!" and hold out the bag.

    Wait for someone to reach for one. Withdraw the bag and say

    "Mockeyah!!!" :pac:
    Ah, I see. What does mockeyah mean?


    We could be here a while :pac:


  • #90
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Abi wrote: »
    Ah, I see. What does mockeyah mean?


    We could be here a while :pac:

    Something fake or untruthful.

    "Is that a real Rolex?"
    "Nah, it's only a mockeyah one I got in Spain"

    Or

    "I didn't know that the WWE wrestling is only mockeyah?"


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  • #91
    RoryMurphyJnr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭RoryMurphyJnr


    was always gushie


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