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What 1 word have you not heard in ages, 1 you want to bring back and 1 you dont like?

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  • #32
    BNMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭BNMC


    Raina Disgusting Pun wrote: »
    If there's never an excuse for it, how can you excuse using it even in a thread about words you don't like?
    Ohh whisht will ya.


  • #33
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    spankysue wrote: »
    Word I haven't heard in ages: Malojen

    Word I want to bring back: Bawdy

    Word I don't like: Irregardless

    As malojen is not even a word then you'll not hear it anywhere. Go to places like Monaghan and ask about a melodeon and your might hear that pronounced as malojen but that's all.

    Irregardless is at least a proper word.

    I always loved the verb to transmogrify.


  • #34
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭marketty


    Two astronomical ones here.
    Bring back :'Moon' meaning fantastic, great.
    Get rid of : 'Space' as in ' I work in the marketing space '


  • #35
    Filibuster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭Filibuster


    IvaBigWun wrote: »

    And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never an excuse for it (Ive just noticed its in the profanity filter on here)

    Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
    Catch a ****** by the toe.
    If he squels, let him go,
    Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.


  • #36
    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    One word I'd bring back; "Yes", as in "Yes, mammanabammana, I will have sex with you"

    And one I hate; "No", as in "No, mammanabammana, I will not have sex with you"


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  • #37
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Lainey Obedient Car wrote: »
    Irregardless is at least a proper word.

    nonononononononononono

    *gnashes teeth.


  • #38
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Muise... wrote: »
    nonononononononononono

    *gnashes teeth.

    Bad news for you.....it's in the OED!


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lainey Obedient Car wrote: »
    Bad news for you.....it's in the OED!

    From Oxford online


    Irregardless means the same as regardless, but the negative prefix ir- merely duplicates the suffix -less, and is unnecessary. The word dates back to the 19th century, but is regarded as incorrect in standard English.

    So it's a word, but one that's incorrect. Confusing judgement by the Oxford crowd.


  • #40
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Candie wrote: »
    From Oxford online


    "Irregardless means the same as regardless, but the negative prefix ir- merely duplicates the suffix -less, and is unnecessary. The word dates back to the 19th century, but is irregarded as incorrect in standard English."


    So it's a word, but one that's incorrect. Confusing judgement by the Oxford crowd.

    Silly OED!


  • #41
    Eeden
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    Lainey Obedient Car wrote: »
    Bad news for you.....it's in the OED!

    Dictionaries record words (usually quite a while after they've been in use); they don't decide what will become a word. Irregardless has become a word - lots of people don't like it (including the OED (and me)), but lots of people use it all the same.


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  • #42
    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    Eeden wrote: »
    ...lots of people don't like it (including the OED (and me)), but lots of people use it all the same.

    In fact, you could say that lots of people use it irregardless... :)


  • #43
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I'd love to bring back the word "one".

    And Id like if we could fit more letters into thread titles but thats the way life is sometimes ;)


  • #44
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Didn't hear the the word "plamasing " in years.

    Oh and yeah diddies is a good one too.


  • #45
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    And Id like if we could fit more letters into thread titles but thats the way life is sometimes ;)
    Well then you should have abandoned the thread and gone for a nice long walk instead.

    I don't hear addled as often as I'd like.

    Actioned should fuck off and die.


  • #46
    Fizzlesque
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Fizzlesque


    Word to bring back: Snollygoster. I've never heard it being used, I just discovered it by chance one day while browsing a website of words no longer in use.

    Snollygoster: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snollygoster

    Word not heard in ages: ---->--<---- I can't think of one right now. Recently, someone used a word in conversation that caused me to say "I haven't heard that word in a long time", but it escapes my mushy brain just now. It may return.

    Word I don't like: panties. [even typing it made me shudder a little. I tried not to say it out loud in my head, but was unsuccessful]


  • #47
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I haven't heard 'Fartknocker' in yonks!


  • #48
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    I haven't heard 'Fartknocker' in yonks!

    I do believe thats my first time hearing it ever.


  • #49
    melted_face
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭melted_face


    Muise... wrote: »
    Like: 'Blackguard'. Such a satisfying insult. Also comes in handy verb form - 'blackguardin'.

    Dislike: 'chill', as an imperative. Always has the opposite effect. As for 'chillax' - let us never speak of it again.

    blackguard ?

    never heard that before, is it the same as blaggard which is a great word ?


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
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    Word I haven't heard in ages: lummox
    Found it in the thesaurus when looking for a synonym for idiot. I'd forgotten it existed but it's a great word.

    Word I'd bring back: dross
    I used this word recently and neither of my parents knew what it meant. It's a fantastically harsh-sounding word.

    Word I'd get rid of: sheeple
    A drossy word used solely by lummoxes. Kill it with fire. :mad:


  • #51
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Loathe the word 'Portfolio'.

    Haven't heard the word 'Tracker' in a while.

    And 'Buffoon' should be used more as we all know plenty.


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  • #52
    The Diabolical Monocle
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    Clunge.


  • #53
    gungun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭gungun


    Catmantic


  • #54
    Smeggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭Smeggy


    I really really hate the words tummy, mummy and yummy..... :mad:


  • #55
    camel jockey
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never an excuse for it (Ive just noticed its in the profanity filter on here)

    So what is your excuse for using it? Could you not have said 'the N word' for example?


  • #56
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    camel jockey wrote: »
    So what is your excuse for using it? Could you not have said 'the N word' for example?

    How would we know which N word it was though?

    Could mean Nuala or Nobby or any other combination of those awful names.


  • #57
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    wazky wrote: »
    How would we know which N word it was though?

    Could mean Nuala or Nobby or any other combination of those awful names.

    I thought that 'the N word' in quotes was widely recognised...clearly not. :o


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
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    camel jockey wrote: »
    So what is your excuse for using it? Could you not have said 'the N word' for example?


    What's with all the snarking on the OP?

    Everyone knows what they mean, it's obvious the word isn't being used in the poisonous context it usually is and it's clear he/she finds it repellent.


  • #59
    camel jockey
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    Candie wrote: »
    What's with all the snarking on the OP?

    Everyone knows what they mean, it's obvious the word isn't being used in the poisonous context it usually is and it's clear he/she finds it repellent.

    So the word can be used in certain contexts? So there are excuses for using it?

    Which is it?


  • #60
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Duds, as in nice duds.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    camel jockey wrote: »
    So the word can be used in certain contexts? So there are excuses for using it?

    Which is it?

    No, I don't think the word should ever be used.

    But the intention of using it in the OP was to draw attention to it as a horrible word, and the use wasn't malicious so I'm inclined to overlook the contradiction.


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