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What words or phrases did you make up that people have started using?

Hunchback

What words or phrases did you make up that people have started using?

Isn't it a weird phenomenon?

Truth is, we prolly didn't make up these phrases. But did you ever get the feeling that it was YOU who first coined a phrase that caught on?

Obviously, when you post, some else will prolly say "rubbish, i heard that when I was 2".

But , thats not the issue. The issue is, when you heard somebody else use a phrase, and you have to scratch your head and ask yourself if YOU are responsible for its invention.

I definitely made up the phrase 'shamer', referring to an embarrassing situation. And, having read it elsewhere this evening, I was reminded that i made up 'ledgebag'. ....(apologies).

Are there any phrases you feel you made up? Does everyone feel this?:pac:

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Praetorian Saighdiuir

"Ahhh heor leave it out!"

then some aul one went viral with it, feckin biddy!

Hersheys

Bint

Mixture between a bitch and a cnut

stmol32

I'm pretty sure a mate of mine invented "give it socks!"

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Also:

"In before the lock"

"Thinly veilled"

"Mod Edit"

"TL:DR"

hedzball

Hersheys wrote: »

Bint

Mixture between a bitch and a cnut

ah ya didn't thou...

Hersheys

hedzball wrote: »

ah ya didn't thou...

Well I don't recall hearing it anywhere before I started using it about 10 years ago & I was the first of my friends to ever use it so I'm claiming it

Leaving Cert Student

A prejack (sticky/awkward situation)

Hunchback

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

A prejack (sticky/awkward situation)

Post-jack is more sticky and awkward, no?

[Deleted User]

Not me but my brother. Tried to say skanger and slag at the same time and said "skag" instead. Stuck with us, but it seems it is a proper word anyway. :pac:

Tin Foil Hat

Beaty chokey.

For a definition look up David Carradine and Michael Hutchence.

tdv123

"cunt" It's basically just the word **** but with an italic "u".

Lingua Franca

Hersheys wrote: »

Well I don't recall hearing it anywhere before I started using it about 10 years ago & I was the first of my friends to ever use it so I'm claiming it

Did you ever see Monty Python and the Holy Grail? It was used in that. It's been used in Scotland for decades too.

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Beaty chokey.

For a definition look up David Carradine and Michael Hutchence.

I swear I came up with stranglewank to describe that sort of situation. Could be wrong though.

thebostoncrab

"Denting me buzz", for when your buzz isn't wrecked but you feel that something is about to happen that, unless dealt with, would proceed to wreck ones buzz

old hippy

Tired of certain people using the terms "pc brigade", "bleeding heart liberals", "leftists" etc, etc I started to call them "right wits". I also, jokingly, used to call myself a "leftopian"

im invisible

I invented 'prolly' for probably

BOHtox

The

nua domhan

I invented Slove when telling the girlfriend Love wasn't enough.

Slove = Super Love.

there's at least 2 of us using it now.

I'm gonna go wrestle a bear to S-recover some man points now.

PhlegmyMoses

Asphixiwank

Jacob T

I invented the smiley d: - D

Just there

Its a happy fella with a cap on (represented by the letter d) turn your phone or laptop 90 degrees clockwise for adequate viewing

[Deleted User]

One i'm fairly sure I came up with by chance is quite offensive. I know this is AH but I don't want to piss off an entire demographic with five letters. It's not racist or homophobic though, yes I'm aware that I'm virtually doing that 'I've a secret but I can't tell' thing and am therefore a cúnt:o So allow me to make it up to you with another one, one that is now legendary in the area of its origins. This is the story of 'Good man lads'.

In my hometown which is in the countryside, a common form of greeting amongst familiars is 'Well', as in 'Well Bob, your name is a palindrome!' A similar unorthodox greeting albeit from man to man is 'Good man', whether he is a good man or not is completely irrelevant, as in 'Good man Clive, are you off the sex offenders register yet?'

So, one day in the distant-enough past, me and my friend Andy were in his sitting room watching a football match on tv. Amongst us elders were Andy's younger brother and his friends. I got a call from a mate, let's call him Steve, to see where we were, he was doing the rounds and was going to call up. Now Steve is a bit of a character in the area and beyond, and not by choice. I am full sure there will be a book about him and his -isms some day, he has touched many peoples' lives!

Anyway, up to the house he came. Football isn't his thing and besides that the room was a bit crowded and stuffy, so me and Andy said we'd go outside to meet him. But just as we were about to leave the room, there was a goal in the match. Between air-punching and watching the replay we forgot about Steve and into the room he came. Everyone looked in his direction, the young lads in the room knew him and all said 'Well Steve' and the like, he simply looked around a bit confused and said quite nobley 'Good man lads', I broke my shíte laughing, as did all in the room. When we left the young lads had tears rolling down their cheeks.

Me and Andy had to explain to him going up the road why everyone was laughing,which is part of the reason it is quite funny. The man doesn't set out to say these things and if he told a joke, it would not be funny and quite possibly mixed up with 5 other jokes. Within weeks I saw boyracers going around the town with a banner saying 'Good man lads' on the top of the windscreen where it would usually say 'no fear' or some other shíte. It has worked its way naturally into every day speech amongst at least 100 people. In fairness, it is quite a useful greeting. That's my way-too-long contribution.

TL:DR 'Good man lads' For those times when greeting everyone in a room individually is a) too much hassle and/or b) when you can't remember everyone's name.

Fart

Snot-rag.

I was convinced for years I made this up when I was a young lad.

Leaving Cert Student

Pulling an Oates... when you walk home in rain/rough night/long distance.

derives from the famous captain Oates who walked into a blizzard accepting death, announcing to his colleagues "I'm just going outside and may be some time."

the purple tin

Hersheys wrote: »

Well I don't recall hearing it anywhere before I started using it about 10 years ago & I was the first of my friends to ever use it so I'm claiming it

Have heard it used in a film from 1968, so there

not yet

Making bits of her or sawing her in half.............

Ghost Buster

For a while (possibly still so in some enlightened circles)in late 80's castlebar, head bangers of that era, you know the ones with the mullet, pathetic tash, badge covered denim jacket with the cut off sleeves were referred to as "*Lemmies" thanks to me.

*Lemmy -Lead singer with Motorhead

bullets

out of curiosity did the "blast em with piss" phrase originate from AH and who
was the first user to use it here ?

~B

s8n

I coined the phrases shamer and ledgebag

Defiler Of The Coffin

Karsini wrote: »

Not me but my brother. Tried to say skanger and slag at the same time and said "skag" instead. Stuck with us, but it seems it is a proper word anyway. :pac:

That's used in some parts of the west to describe the post-ecstasy comedown

Edit: Ecstasy the drug I mean

Defiler Of The Coffin

My uncle used to claim he coined the phrase "Keep her lit"

amdublin

I didn't invent/create them I'm sure, but I've (I feel) been influential in bringing them into popular use over the last 5 years.

1. Jessie.
As in, don't be a Jessie, or your such a Jessie (wimp/whinge/moany-hole)

2. Shut your cakehole.