Slang Words That Are No Longer in Use.

Ol' Donie · 19-01-2016 06:08AM

Sack.

As in, shut your face you sack.

hot buttered scones · 19-01-2016 06:20AM

Hammer89 wrote: »

Gyp!

"Did you ride your one last night?"

"Absolutely, but I had no rubber johnnie 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.

FYP...:)

eisenberg1 · 19-01-2016 02:22PM

Get up the yard!

Sir Gallagher · 19-01-2016 02:28PM

Rasper

Toerag

Dick phelan · 20-01-2016 09:05PM

Not sure of the spelling but the world Rigout to describe an outfit or item of clothing.

matchthis · 20-01-2016 11:50PM

Ekker pronounced eh-ker was homework. No idea, where it came from.... Or where it went.

Stall it - could either mean come or stay. Stall it over to mine. We'll stall it here for a while

katkin · 21-01-2016 12:05AM

matchthis wrote: »

Ekker pronounced eh-ker was homework. No idea, where it came from.... Or where it went.

Stall it - could either mean come or stay. Stall it over to mine. We'll stall it here for a while

Ekker from exercises

Say Your Number · 21-01-2016 09:39AM

Rapscallion

Wench

byte · 21-01-2016 10:12AM

Ballbag

xband · 21-01-2016 10:13AM

gammygils wrote: »

The Smuts was the cinema in my area. Or the Flicks

That may have also come from smoking.
Cinemas in the olden days were notoriously smoky places.

The flicks is common all over the place

The Royal Scam · 21-01-2016 10:21AM

Speccy four eyes,

Lick out

JuliusCaesar · 21-01-2016 10:30AM

Far out.

xband · 21-01-2016 11:50AM

We'd an old teacher who used to call you a "fly boy" if you annoyed her.

Ciaran_B · 21-01-2016 12:15PM

xband wrote: »

We'd an old teacher who used to call you a "fly boy" if you annoyed her.

That one sounds like a compliment.

'Hey Ciaran_B, you're some fly boy.'
'Awww, thanks.'

gizmo555 · 21-01-2016 12:19PM

Does anyone use "mot" for girlfriend anymore?

My father used proudly boast that when he was visiting Spain in the 50s, to see my mother before they were married, under the "Purpose of Visit" heading on the Spanish immigration form he wrote "To see me mot!"

Boom_Bap · 21-01-2016 12:26PM

You "darn tooting ding dong".

Possibly never used outside of The Rascals.

xband · 21-01-2016 12:30PM

gizmo555 wrote: »

Does anyone use "mot" for girlfriend anymore?

My father used proudly boast that when he was visiting Spain in the 50s, to see my mother before they were married, under the "Purpose of Visit" heading on the Spanish immigration form he wrote "To see me mot!"

That could lead to 6 weeks of interrogation by homeland security until they established that Me Mot isn't a terror organisation.

Then you'd be on the No Fly list.

Maximus Alexander · 21-01-2016 12:38PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

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!

My dad is also the only person I've heard use it!

Doodah7 · 21-01-2016 01:59PM

Groovy baby!!

or a 'gasper' as slang for a cigarette. 'I'm dying for a gasper' (as opposed to dying as a result of a gasper!)

eisenberg1 · 21-01-2016 02:31PM

Jamrags

we'llallhavetea · 22-01-2016 03:32AM

the groutch wrote: »

Spa!

I still use this! some people can only be described as a spaaaaa! not to their face of course, i'm a two faced bitch like that.

when I was a kid lesbians were called lemons? and we'd make the licking gesture between our hands... which I have know realised was not mimicking licking a lemon. jaysus!

fatherted1969 · 22-01-2016 04:51AM

Stook as in that lad is some stook (eegit) don't hear that anymore

ezra_pound · 22-01-2016 08:00AM

Hammer89 wrote: »

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.

Jip. Surely this is still in common use.

Day Lewin · 22-01-2016 10:38AM

Two that were never very common...but now may be obsolete:

Chainey....delph, crockery (prob. from china)

and Latchiko! which means --- er, what?

Day Lewin · 22-01-2016 10:38AM

Two that were never very common...but now may be obsolete:

Chainey....delph, crockery (prob. from china)

and Latchiko! which means --- er, what?

jmayo · 22-01-2016 11:23AM

katemarch wrote: »

Two that were never very common...but now may be obsolete:

Chainey....delph, crockery (prob. from china)

and Latchiko! which means --- er, what?

I think you mean Latchico which would I reckon be "a bit of an eejit and lazy fecker".

For instance yer man is a right Latchico.

For anyone that watched old 30/40 movies one might remember the likes of Jimmy Cagney or Humphrey Bogart characters referring to women as broads and dames.
Then in 50s it became chicks.

maudgonner · 22-01-2016 11:32AM

jmayo wrote: »

I think you mean Latchico which would I reckon be "a bit of an eejit and lazy fecker".

For instance yer man is a right Latchico.

According to the Urban Dictionary it's got Italian origins, who knew!

Snickers Man · 22-01-2016 11:34AM

keano_afc wrote: »

Blaghard and gurrier. My grandparents were fond of these particular words.

Country folk still use the word blackguard or blaggard a lot. The late Jackie Healy-Rae was fond of using it to describe asylum seekers or other immigrants to Kerry.

Snickers Man · 22-01-2016 11:38AM

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.

Comes from Donnybrook Fair, an event that used to be held in centuries past and was often a byword for riotous and very drunken brawling. Back before Dublin 4 was Dublin 4 and an upmarket convenience store changed the spelling to Fare.

I still hear Australians use it a lot. One think our emigrants have given the world.

Snickers Man · 22-01-2016 11:42AM

questionmark? wrote: »

Wazzzzzuuuuupppp as a greeting.

Thank God that one had a transient existence.

Speaking of which: do young people say "Thank God" or use "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" as an expletive? My elderly parents still do.

Slang Words That Are No Longer in Use.

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