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Slang Words That Are No Longer in Use.

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  • #92
    LordSutch
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    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!"

    Haven't heard it used in years, never knew what it meant anyway! Mot (moth)?

    Here's two more from the past.....

    Spa - slang for spastic.
    Cripp - slang for cripple.


  • #93
    Brianboru39
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    "Lampaste It"

    To hit something hard , football, snooker shot etc


  • #94
    jmayo
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    Snickers Man wrote: »
    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.

    Jaysus, there are so many Irish slang words and terms that could be used to describe that guy.

    For instance he was a bit of a "cute hoor", was a bit of "a sleeveen", had a "neck like a jockey boll****" and was seen as a "gombeen" and "bogger" by the more cosmopolitans amongst us who did not like his "parish pump politics".

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #95
    Snickers Man
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Haven't heard it used in years, never knew what it meant anyway! Mot (moth)?

    Comes from Irish Cailín maith or maith an cailín

    My "good girl".


  • #96
    Ciaran_B
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    Snickers Man wrote: »
    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. :)

    Mr. Burns used it in The Simpsons one time.


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  • #97
    gammygils
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    Natty. Meaning nice. My Dad used to say it. He's a natty dresser.


    A Natty footballer etc.


  • #98
    Boom_Bap
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    Gammy - not working properly.


  • #99
    Balmed Out
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    matchthis wrote: »

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

    Never heard stall + it. Would still say stall for wait. When we were kids we'd have always said stall the beans, again for wait but not heard that in a long time.

    Langer is barely used since that song took the curse out of it. Time was it was a proper swearword but when you hear some old fellow singing it incessantly on the radio it takes the bad out of it.

    Bazzer - haircut.

    sca - news been replaced by story.

    Lamp - look at.


  • #100
    Shrap
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    Brianboru39 wrote: »
    "Lampaste It"

    To hit something hard , football, snooker shot etc

    Comes from lambaste - to beat or whip severely! Lamp, as in "Lamp him one, will ya?" comes from that too.

    (He's a) Quare hawk. Never hear that much any more.....


  • #101
    aaronjumper
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    Haven't heard guff in ages. Meaning cheek or hassle.

    "Hey now less of your guff"


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  • #102
    WHIP IT!
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    Few people in here need to get out more - about 80% of the words mentioned here are still used, every single day, regularly, all over the country...

    One I'm intrigued by, however, is the use of 'bowler' for dog. That's a completely new one on me, very good... anyone know the origins of it?


  • #103
    Dyr
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    Have'nt heard goolies used in ages


  • #104
    ezra_pound
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    Tool
    Sham
    Beur
    Jacks


    All of these are still in common usage.
    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    They are?

    What's a beur?

    It's a woman. Really pronounced more like beor or byor.
    Like " sham" it's shelta. Sham means man and byor means woman.


  • #105
    Day Lewin
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    "Sca" for "news" as in "Any sca?" is short for "scandal" but connoting just scraps of gossip, etc.


  • #106
    Dyr
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    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Haven't heard guff in ages. Meaning cheek or hassle.

    "Hey now less of your guff"

    I use guff all the time, I use it on boards.

    Its a great way to insult someone


  • #107
    Dyr
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    The Daw and its cousin the Gobdaw are rarely heard of in Ireland these days sadly.


  • #108
    Kalimah
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    I believe daw is a Waterford expression which I use myself even though I've no Waterford connections at all! It's a great word. Have heard bowler from older Dublin born aunts. My grandfather used blackguard a bit too! There's a few websites with quite a bit of hiberno English which are a good laugh. Quintessentially Irish which I like.


  • #109
    Dyr
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    Kalimah wrote: »
    I believe daw is a Waterford expression which I use myself even though I've no Waterford connections at all! It's a great word. Have heard bowler from older Dublin born aunts. My grandfather used blackguard a bit too! There's a few websites with quite a bit of hiberno English which are a good laugh. Quintessentially Irish which I like.

    Daw was common enough in dublin in the 80s and 90s anyway


  • #110
    super_furry
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    Bambi wrote: »
    The Daw and its cousin the Gobdaw are rarely heard of in Ireland these days sadly.

    Never heard of a daw but I remember a gobdaw being the polite version of a gob****e.

    I assume we've all been through the sad disappearance of gick and it's gickna? Come to think of it, remember when someone scabby or greedy was a hunga?


  • #111
    PTAB93
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    Targer: Someone who's a headwreck "ya targer ya" (make a j sound for the -ger bit)

    Creaking: Yapping "Would ya quit your creakin" (Pronounced more like crayyyykin)

    Anyone heard of these? :D


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  • #112
    worded
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    PTAB93 wrote: »
    Targer: Someone who's a headwreck "ya targer ya" (make a j sound for the -ger bit)

    Creaking: Yapping "Would ya quit your creakin" (Pronounced more like crayyyykin)

    Anyone heard of these? :D
    Hi PTA

    Targer
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=86223054

    An Agressive female that goes from 0 to conflict with no in between phase

    My sister used it to describe someone I know, a contrary cow and the definition is as I expected. Its a good word to forewarn you of someone character. Narcist / bullying Agressive female

    What's a male targer ?


  • #113
    [Deleted User]
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    Poxy
    Cat
    The pits

    All ways of saying "bad" 30 years ago...


  • #114
    worded
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    That's mighty


  • #115
    maudgonner
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Poxy
    Cat
    The pits

    All ways of saying "bad" 30 years ago...

    If it's particularly bad it would be "cat melodeon".


  • #116
    saintsaltynuts
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    Get outta that garden.
    Lu Laa.


  • #117
    uch
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    ScutterPullet, a favourite of me Da's when he had a few pints on him to describe anyone under 10 acting the Maggot

    21/25



  • #118
    JackieBauer
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    ANIMAL!


  • #119
    Snickers Man
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    Jaffa.

    Meaning a Northern Irish Protestant. (Etymology should be self explanatory :) )


  • #120
    aaronjumper
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    Bambi wrote: »
    I use guff all the time, I use it on boards.

    Its a great way to insult someone
    I never hear it round Limerick anymore.

    Aha anecdotal evidence, checkmate!


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  • #121
    Hammer89
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    ezra_pound wrote: »
    Jip. Surely this is still in common use.

    It's been phased out and replaced by 'cum' I believe.


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