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    Slang Words That Are No Longer in Use.

    • 18-01-2016 02:57AM
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      Xenophile
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      Anybody here know what the word "smuts" was used for ?

      The Forum on Spirituality has been closed for years. Please bring it back, there are lots of Spiritual people in Ireland and elsewhere.



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    • #2
      gammygils
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      The Smuts was the cinema in my area. Or the Flicks


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      ardinn
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      I know smut referred to distasteful sexual material - such as porn mags or movies
      images.jpg
      http://slaneyfishing.com




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      Xenophile
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      Flicks is correct. It was used as a term for going to cinema, as back in the day as they say the cinema was filled with cigarette smoke, even young people could go there and smoke like chimneys. They were under the cover of darkness and knew that their parents were not present. Of course many adults went there to enjoy their cigarettes as well the films!

      The Forum on Spirituality has been closed for years. Please bring it back, there are lots of Spiritual people in Ireland and elsewhere.



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      nullzero
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      Rapid or "rapeh" to describe something good.

      Glazers Out!



    • #6
      Wibbs
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      The word "Bowler" for a dog you hear almost never these days.

      Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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    • #7
      MRnotlob606
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      Gallybander


    • #8
      Menas
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      Bootboys and Corner Boys.


    • #9
      Ursus Horribilis
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      French letters. I'm not sure what it says about the population of France or the postal service that they were equated with prophylactics


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      whiskeyman
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      'penpal' - someone you write a letter to on a frequent basis.








      Whatever that involves...


    • #11
      suicide_circus
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      Frig (verb) to finger


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    • #12
      Sam Kade
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      Tool
      Sham
      Beur
      Jacks


    • #13
      The Backwards Man
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      A smut is a dour or sour face where I'm from.

      Look at the cut of the ye with that smut on ye.


    • #14
      gramar
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      Snazzy


    • #15
      CFlat
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      Hubba hubba! -Use to be used to describe a good looking woman.


    • #16
      The_Valeyard
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      Chicks



      Sketch


    • #17
      quad_red
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      'Balubas' - ie. crazy, unhinged. "Yeah, he's balubas".

      I never knew the origin and racist connotations of that until I saw a documentary on TG4 on the Niemba ambush as an adult
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemba_Ambush

      'Noody naady' - ie. high maintenance, hard to deal with.


    • #18
      Long Time Lurker
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      Ecker [Homework]

      As in " I didn't do me bleedin ecker "


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      Idle Passerby
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      Odus fell down wrote: »
      French letters. I'm not sure what it says about the population of France or the postal service that they were equated with prophylactics

      beause they were illegal here they had to be mail ordered and sent in the post. Probably from Britain rather than France but everyone knows the French were the sauciest manner of foreigner in yon days.


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      Baron Kurtz
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      Donnybrook: an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute. A brawl.

      I doubt anyone ever actually used this word, but I like it.


    • #21
      keano_afc
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      Blaghard and gurrier. My grandparents were fond of these particular words.


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    • #22
      Baron Kurtz
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      Gazump.


    • #23
      the groutch
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      Spa!


    • #24
      Sam Kade
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      Nice duds, nice clothes
      I will in me bollocks, I will not
      Pup, a brat


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      BattleCorp
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      keano_afc wrote: »
      Blaghard and gurrier. My grandparents were fond of these particular words.

      Blackguard is the proper word. Never pronounced like this though.


    • #26
      Sam Kade
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      Shift


    • #27
      BattleCorp
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      Sam Kade wrote: »
      Shift

      We still use that word down here in the sticks.


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      cowboyBuilder
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      nullzero wrote: »
      Rapid or "rapeh" to describe something good.

      Thats not used anymore ?

      what a shame ...

      How about "Sketch!" - to mean RUN !!!

      that still used among the youth ?


    • #29
      pickarooney
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      Baron Kurtz wrote: »
      Donnybrook: an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute. A brawl.

      I doubt anyone ever actually used this word, but I like it.

      Pete Campbell in Mad Men used it once.


    • #30
      bonzodog2
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      Baron Kurtz wrote: »
      Donnybrook: an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute. A brawl.

      I doubt anyone ever actually used this word, but I like it.

      I just read this word in an ebook last night and wondered what it meant


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    • #31
      pawrick
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      quad_red wrote: »
      'Balubas' - ie. crazy, unhinged. "Yeah, he's balubas".

      I never knew the origin and racist connotations of that until I saw a documentary on TG4 on the Niemba ambush as an adult
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemba_Ambush
      .

      I still hear that said occasionally around Athlone usually in reference to being drunk - you'll hear it in "garrison towns"


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