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Words that you rarely hear any more...

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  • #32
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    Accepting CV's


  • #33
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Lighted.
    Fustigation.


  • #34
    Biggins
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    superfragilisticexpialidocious


  • #35
    Ruralyoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Ruralyoke


    Not exactly archaic but "shall" has never really been popular in this country but these days it's almost extinct except in comedic poncy type proclamations.

    Which is kind of a good thing in my book - never liked the little sh1tty b@stard of a word. :)


  • #36
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    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

    Adding to that vocabularly: the haggard.

    Suppose it would be called a back yard now.

    And a word you'd only really hear from an auld lad at a hurling match these days but was a threat back in the day: "skelp"
    i.e "stop acting the eejit before I hit ya a skelp"


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  • #37
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Never hear kids sayin let's play kick the can


  • #38
    Ruralyoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Ruralyoke


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Never hear kids sayin let's play kick the can

    Awww - that sounds really sad and nostalgic at the same time!


  • #39
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Ride me sideways was another one.


  • #40
    mikemac1
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Rounders (pre Celtic tiger field game)

    Have they stopped playing this in schools?

    I used to love playing rounders in primary school. :)


  • #41
    johnmcdnl
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    codswallop


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  • #42
    Schwiiing
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    wankstain


  • #43
    mikemac1
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    Get up the yard, the smell of bengy off ya!



    <something> is da solid finehist
    Not heard that in a long time


  • #44
    Ruralyoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Ruralyoke


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    bengy

    Right that's it - for the first time in this thread I haven't a clue??


  • #45
    Judgement Day
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    Never used the expression myself but oldies used to 'spend a penny' whereas my generation used to 'have a slash' both seemed to have died out.


  • #46
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Ruralyoke wrote: »
    Right that's it - for the first time in this thread I haven't a clue??

    Do you remember Glenroe?
    Before that were was Bracken, a very young Gabriel Byrne was in it ;)
    Before Bracken there was The Riordans

    'Get up the yard, there's a smell of Benjy off you!' came from that and became widely know, even decades later

    Showing my age :o


  • #47
    yermanoffthetv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭yermanoffthetv


    "Gurrier" describing a little scumbag


  • #48
    nick 56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭nick 56


    I learnt that wellington boots were called cossacks, I got out of a car by the GPO and got whoo hard by some guttersnipes as in "look at your man in his cossacks" -- much joy and laughter.

    Geezer (for a cat)

    cuddly sack (a cul-de- sac)

    I will in me bollix


  • #49
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Maybe this is just a kilkenny thing but back in the 90's people used to say weapon as a means to describe something great. Then the cool kids shortened it to wep.

    Interchangable with 'awesome' now I suppose. Feckin yanks.


  • #50
    The Radiator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    Seventy


  • #51
    ruskey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭ruskey!


    spend a penny - thats when it was affordable pre celtic tiger !!!!
    we're talking euro now......... so you gotta spend in style !!


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  • #52
    The Radiator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    table


  • #53
    Izzy j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭Izzy j


    Vexed.


  • #54
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Ragamuffin
    Tinker
    Whirligig


  • #55
    ruskey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭ruskey!


    did anyone ever hear of a Honda 50 being described as a "japanese sewing machine!! Ha! Ha! I'm enjoying the memories:D


  • #56
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Phonebox is another word that's going out of fashion very quick . I like this thread it's bringing me back to my younger days:)


  • #57
    some random drunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    words my Mam uses that no one of my generation does:

    jaded
    pup - to describe someone bad eg, "That fella's a right little pup, he is"
    "tins of 7up"
    diamond - to mean something good
    blackguard
    gurrier
    "out gallivanting"
    "sally forth"
    queer - to mean something strange
    "golly!"


  • #58
    earpiece
    Closed Accounts Posts: 550 ✭✭✭earpiece


    "I Love You"....haven't heard that in a long time.




    *Sob's uncontrollably*


  • #59
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    supercan

    Bring these back I say


  • #60
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    I must be living back in time, I would still use a lot of those words!


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  • #61
    pipelaser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭pipelaser


    "Get outa that Garden!" if you're a Dub

    Also Calling things Moon, if you're from Navan.

    Seeing something great "Thats Moon!"
    Describing someone Crazy "Hes Moon in the Head!"


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