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Slang Words That Are No Longer in Use.

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  • #32
    Valentina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    Schwing



    or Schwiiiiiiiing


  • #33
    Wibbs
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    Menas wrote: »
    Bootboys and Corner Boys.
    Gutties was another one.
    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
    I'd occasionally still use "balubaland" instead of lala land.
    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.
    By all accounts the markets held in that suburb of Dublin were quite riotous from time to time.

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



  • #34
    mynameis905
    Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭mynameis905


    "Smatle" as a contraction of small and little, frequently pronounced as schmatle


  • #35
    eisenberg1
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    When I was a kid. Adults would refer to street winos as "spunkers" or "spunkards"

    Of course now a "spunker" would mean something completely different.


  • #36
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Cha (tea)
    "cup of cha"
    I think many Irish spent time out east with the British army.


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  • #37
    diomed
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    from a Dublin slang website
    "in me office sending a fax to poolbeg"
    (i'm in the loo having a sh*te.")


  • #38
    Xenophile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,073 ✭✭✭Xenophile


    diomed wrote: »
    from a Dublin slang website
    "in me office sending a fax to poolbeg"
    (i'm in the loo having a sh*te.")

    A good one...............is it still in use?..................fax yes........as you cannot wipe your a**e with an email.

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



  • #39
    questionmark?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    Wazzzzzuuuuupppp as a greeting.


  • #40
    Birneybau
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    Get on the trolly.

    Ironically, rising in usage in Irish hospitals.


  • #41
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I Googled these other army/Indian words

    cushy Easy (Hindi khush pleasant, from Persian khush [1915]
    dekko To take a look (Hindi, deckna, to look)
    goolie Testicle, late 19th century (Hindi gooli, a pellet)


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  • #42
    eisenberg1
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    Brown. As in "I will in me brown"


  • #43
    sbsquarepants
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    The word "Bowler" for a dog you hear almost never these days.

    That's what my auld fella always calls the dog, I say it myself sometimes - it's actually never occurred to me, until right now, that other people don't!


  • #44
    ezra_pound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭ezra_pound


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Tool
    Sham
    Beur
    Jacks

    All of these are still in common usage.


  • #45
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    ezra_pound wrote: »
    All of these are still in common usage.

    They are?

    What's a beur?


  • #46
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Wibbs wrote: »
    The word "Bowler" for a dog you hear almost never these days.

    still used in my mothers house


  • #47
    Timberrrrrrrr
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    Benji, used to describe someone smelling like shite


    "The smell of Benji off ya"


  • #48
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    keano_afc wrote: »
    Blaghard and gurrier. My grandparents were fond of these particular words.

    My grandmother used to use 'blaggard' and 'gurrier'. My favourite was 'looderamawn', though. A lazy ne'er-do-well. I suppose 'ne'er-do-well' could be added too.
    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

    My sister (who's in her mid-40s) used this a few weeks ago. I was a bit surprised, considering she likes to think of herself as very politically correct.


  • #49
    Harry Palmr
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    Guttersnipe


  • #50
    Hammer89
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    Gyp!

    "Did you ride your one last night?"

    "Absolutely, but I had no rubber so I had to gyp on her stomach."

    I was only about eight when the word 'gyp' was common so the above isn't a real conversation I had.


  • #51
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Diddies


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  • #52
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Topper: A nice person.

    "Ah yeh topper!"


  • #53
    osarusan
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    'you article' as an insult.


  • #54
    Harry Palmr
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    Scut!


  • #55
    gormdubhgorm
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    keano_afc wrote: »
    Blaghard and gurrier. My grandparents were fond of these particular words.

    I think you should listen to few Joe Duffy "lafhline" podcasts it is full of mentions of gurriers and blagards!

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #56
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Smashing
    Delira (and exira) - I blame Gay Byrne entirely for these.
    gombeen


    However, as Terry Pratchett had one of his characters say in a book twenty years old "cool is always cool".


  • #57
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Not a word but a phrase, my granny still uses "doing a line" to mean dating someone, Also uses the word Queer but not in the context of being gay.


  • #58
    Mackman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mackman


    cowboyBuilder wrote: »
    Thats not used anymore ?

    what a shame ...

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

    that still used among the youth ?

    We used to use "sketch" too, also someone would "keep sketch", which meant to keep lookout.

    My Dad still uses 'dinging' when something is really good.


  • #59
    turnikett1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭turnikett1


    Old bean.


  • #60
    8 Bit Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭8 Bit Girl


    Janey mack, a nicer way of saying jaaaaaysis! I heard it all the time as a child. I still say it but never hear anyone else use it.


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  • #61
    hot buttered scones
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    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    They are?

    What's a beur?

    An auld doll


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