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Words that you rarely hear any more...

  • 18-05-2012 06:02PM
    #1
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭


    And I don't mean please and thank you! :D

    I don't why it suddenly popped into my head - advancing senility probably - but a word my Grandfather (born 1881) used to use when describing things that he had heard politicians saying - blatherskite. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-bla1.htm He died in 1970 and I certainly haven't heard anybody else use it since. Anybody else got any weird ones?


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Comments

  • #2
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    A donnybrook, to describe a fight, fcuking great word :D


  • #3
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Guttersnipe.


  • #4
    lorebringer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭lorebringer


    "pinny" for an apron - heard someone say it the other day that was not over the age of 80!


  • #5
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,294 ✭✭✭jos28


    Had a discussion about this last week when we realised that nobody says diddies or gic anymore


  • #6
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    krudler wrote: »
    A donnybrook, to describe a fight, fcuking great word :D

    How old are you? :D


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  • #7
    ruskey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭ruskey!


    AAhhh that brings me back - to the 1960's - :)
    havent heard blatherskite for years - and while i'm at it - how about someone being described as a "neuck" - a buachaill dána too cute for his own good, devious, sly.......


  • #8
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Guttersnipe, i'm going to try and bring that one back.

    Come here you ya little guttersnipe, i'll box the ears off ya.


  • #9
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Couldn't give a fiddlers fart
    Never hear that anymore


  • #10
    bowsie010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭bowsie010


    pissmire


  • #11
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    No.


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  • #12
    The Radiator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    Recession


  • #13
    Kurz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭Kurz


    Scutter


  • #14
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    How old are you? :D

    well I remember the day Johnny "The Tower" MacGavin went 200 rounds with a young Albert "Slobberknocker" O'Donnell, what a day that was, all of us riled up on gobstoppers and giving each other jip, what ho!


  • #15
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "information superhighway"

    "the web"


  • #16
    Bullrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Bullrush


    Rubber dollies - runners
    Jagging - going out with someone
    Bazzer - haircut


  • #17
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Mega

    To describe something that is/was great (not in relation to size/mass)


  • #18
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    In a hoola hoop ( hungover or in bad way(


  • #19
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,294 ✭✭✭jos28


    ruskey! wrote: »
    AAhhh that brings me back - to the 1960's - :)
    Remember the song - gic, gic, la, la, it's all down your leg gic gic,la la.......


  • #20
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    catch a nígger by the toe


  • #21
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Fornication;)
    Bohareen


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  • #22
    Dub12Dave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭Dub12Dave


    Do you remember the last time you called someone a 'Goon'


  • #23
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Gobble (eat fast)
    Rounders (pre Celtic tiger field game)


  • #24
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Slanty... as in "dear god that lads awful slanty looking of late!"

    Let's bring slanty back into the Irish lexicon!


  • #25
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    parlor
    scullery

    The grandparents had these rooms, I bet your grandparents did too

    Now I'd call them a living room and a utility room, probably American influence

    The parlor was an important room and young whippersnappers weren't allowed in there
    That was for important visitors


  • #26
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Caddywhompus


  • #27
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Christy Brown
    Ah ya Christy, you're some retard
    Hey Christy, yeah you

    Early nineties when the film came out


  • #28
    Urquell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭Urquell


    Thank You


  • #29
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    What the Dickens

    Cassette tape

    Tape recorder.

    VCR

    Remolds (Although this may comeback :p)

    Extreme Unction


  • #30
    livinsane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    Enough of your high falutin.


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  • #31
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Girdle
    Courting
    Doing a line


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