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Words that you rarely hear any more...

Judgement Day

And I don't mean please and thank you!

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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Pilotdude5

Accepting CV's

Mr Benevolent

Lighted.
Fustigation.

Biggins

superfragilisticexpialidocious

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.

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"

dodderangler

Never hear kids sayin let's play kick the can

Ruralyoke

dodderangler wrote: »

Never hear kids sayin let's play kick the can

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

IrishAm

Ride me sideways was another one.

mikemac1

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.

johnmcdnl

codswallop

Schwiiing

wankstain

mikemac1

Get up the yard, the smell of bengy off ya!

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

Ruralyoke

mikemac1 wrote: »

bengy

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

Judgement Day

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.

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

yermanoffthetv

"Gurrier" describing a little scumbag

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

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.

The Radiator

Seventy

ruskey!

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

The Radiator

table

Izzy j

Vexed.

Archeron

Ragamuffin
Tinker
Whirligig

ruskey!

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

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:)

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!"

earpiece

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

*Sob's uncontrollably*

mikemac1

supercan

Bring these back I say

hairyprincess

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

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!"