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Words no longer used.....

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  • #102
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    AD and BC


  • #103
    Mimon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Mimon


    blackvalley wrote: »
    Along the same lines is that great word " shytehalk "

    Shytehawk was a classic. Ogeous was a great one,is it only a Cavan one?

    Could be used in a lot of situations - had an ogeous lock a pints last night or yer one has an ogeous hole on her.

    Presume it comes from odious? Like awful it is used completely differententl in Hiberno English than standard English.


  • #104
    Mimon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Mimon


    branie2 wrote: »
    AD and BC

    Yeh, when did this change and why? Suddenly had this new BCE sh!te forced on us :mad: Don't even know the new AD term.


  • #105
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Mimon wrote: »
    Yeh, when did this change and why? Suddenly had this new BCE sh!te forced on us :mad: Don't even know the new AD term.

    It's CE. And it was changed thanks to PC


  • #106
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nozebleed wrote: »
    blouse

    "Perm" ....... referring to a lady's hair


  • #107
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,253 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    salmocab wrote: »
    I’m reading my son the famous five books and the language is so dated. They use some words in ways they’d never be used anymore. They say ‘rather’ a lot to mean they like the sound of it or yes please. They say your mum is a brick to mean she’s great. Some of it is charming in an old fashioned way and some is quite odd.

    Still hear 'rather' used that way a lot on BBC radio comedies... Roger Allam has multiple ways of saying it genuine or sarcastically in response to suggestions in Conversations from a Long Marriage. He can make rather mean I'd rather not.
    I never really understood how it came to be used that way.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #108
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,543 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    branie2 wrote: »
    It's CE. And it was changed thanks to PC

    I've never heard of that! What does CE stand for?
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #109
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I've never heard of that! What does CE stand for?

    Common Era


  • #110
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    Ken Mc Carthy wrote: »
    "Perm" ....... referring to a lady's hair

    Blue rinse :cool:

    Remember when auld ones used to go about with lovely permed or set hair in a dashing shade of blue or purple, hah.


  • #111
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,555 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    "Vexed" is one my grandmother used - I gave her plenty of cause to use is.


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  • #112
    Jakey Rolling
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Jakey Rolling


    Methinks

    Methought this had fallen out of use a couple of centuries ago, but it's unfortunately still used by several boards contributors who appear to think they are living in some bawdy Elizabethan comedy.

    100412.2526@compuserve.com



  • #113
    Nigzcurran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭Nigzcurran


    Minstrel
    ******
    Big ears
    Chunk
    Lemon
    Chink
    We used to think we were the hilarious going around calling people names 30 odd years ago, you’d get a date in court nowadays for it (probably deserved!)
    Edit, boards wont even let me type the word fag*ot it’s that bad nowadays


  • #114
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    Cat for bad and cat malogen for worse than bad.
    Slack another word for cat.
    As in...
    'They said they'd do it and then didn't? That's slack.'


  • #115
    scotchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Gadzooks

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • #116
    indioblack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭indioblack


    Jakey Rolling wrote: »
    Methinks

    Methought this had fallen out of use a couple of centuries ago, but it's unfortunately still used by several boards contributors who appear to think they are living in some bawdy Elizabethan comedy.
    More like a farce.


  • #117
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Ludramaun


  • #118
    External Association
    Registered Users Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭External Association


    Oh goodnight Joe Doyle


  • #119
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,111 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Smegma use to know someone that used it all the time for any sort of dirt they didn't like the look of not heard the word in years.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #120
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,520 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Wile.


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  • #121
    Andrea B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    Courting (dating)


  • #122
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,243 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    Andrea B. wrote: »
    Courting (dating)

    wooing as well


  • #123
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    VHS
    VCR


  • #124
    threetrees
    Registered Users Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭threetrees


    The Pictures (the cinema)
    P&T (pre An Post/eir/eircom/telecom eireann)
    Callcards
    Gur cake

    Dial up (internet)
    Inter cert


  • #125
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Blackguard.
    Bleedin Rapid.
    Frig off and flip off.
    The craic was 90.
    Guttys and rubber dollys - runners.
    Gravy ring - donut


  • #126
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Analog


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  • #127
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ken Mc Carthy wrote: »
    Think it came from a folk song circa 40s,50s........"Molly bawn" is simply someone( male or female) giving you the run around, as in messing you about........ say you were on phone to customer services & getting passed around without any progress/ success.....you'd say " they're playing Molly bawn with me"

    That's a new one on me, never heard of that.

    Where I'm from, Bawn is an alias for people who must once have lived in a Bawn (forecourt of a tower house). So our neighbours are Hogans, for example, but to differentiate them from other locals with that surname, you'd say 'they're Bawn Hogans', because they live on an old bawn.

    So for argument's sake, let's say Bawn refers to someone who lives next to a big house.

    Moll, or Molly, is a slang term for a prostitute. 'Molly House' refers to a brothel; 'Molly' usually has sexual connotations.

    I wonder if a "Molly Bawn" might be a prostitute who lived beside a tower/ big house?

    Just a guess, I might be making wild leaps and assumptions, but maybe not.


  • #128
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    56k modem, bulletin boards, the flicks, old word for films.
    Dial up Internet, showband,


  • #129
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,111 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Fraudband for 3G - how quickly we forget.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #130
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,406 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The Molly Bawn song is a tragedy where she is mistaken for a swan and shot by her boyfriend.

    Come all you young fowlers, who carry the gun, beware of going shooting by the late setting sun. It might happen to anyone as it happened to me, to shoot your own true love in under a tree.


  • #131
    [Deleted User]
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    The Continental Op wrote: »
    Smegma use to know someone that used it all the time for any sort of dirt they didn't like the look of not heard the word in years.
    Always find it funny when people spend thousands of euro to put a fridge called SMEG in their kitchen. How can you not think of smegma? Disgusting.


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  • #132
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,406 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Smeg came up in a crossword I was doing recently, in connection to Red Dwarf. I knew the kitchen appliance name, but never heard of it as a swear word.

    Smeg is a vulgarism or expletive used throughout the series of Red Dwarf. Although no specific meaning is ever given, it and its derivatives are regularly used as a derogatory term. On 14 February 2015 at the MCM Midlands Comic Con, Robert Llewellyn explicitly attested that smeg is a shortened version of smegma.

    The term "Smeghead" is used very commonly throughout as an insult towards characters in the show.


  • #133
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Smeg came up in a crossword I was doing recently, in connection to Red Dwarf. I knew the kitchen appliance name, but never heard of it as a swear word.

    Smeg is a vulgarism or expletive used throughout the series of Red Dwarf. Although no specific meaning is ever given, it and its derivatives are regularly used as a derogatory term. On 14 February 2015 at the MCM Midlands Comic Con, Robert Llewellyn explicitly attested that smeg is a shortened version of smegma.

    The term "Smeghead" is used very commonly throughout as an insult towards characters in the show.
    Anyone here who ever rode horses as a child would know the word 'smeg'/ 'smegma' pretty well.

    Geldings must have their willies washed pretty rigorously, it's fairly sick. You have to get your arm up there, as far as the elbow, washing all the cheese off. And it stinks. I gagged twice just posting this.


  • #134
    slavetothegrind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    cornerboys
    Slaphead
    Loathsome ****ehawke
    the dogs bollix
    Face on that like a head o cabbage


  • #135
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,543 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Anyone here who ever rode horses as a child would know the word 'smeg'/ 'smegma' pretty well.

    Geldings must have their willies washed pretty rigorously, it's fairly sick. You have to get your arm up there, as far as the elbow, washing all the cheese off. And it stinks. I gagged twice just posting this.

    I'm going to regret this, but get your arm up where exactly?
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #136
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,909 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Smeg came up in a crossword I was doing recently, in connection to Red Dwarf. I knew the kitchen appliance name, but never heard of it as a swear word.

    Smeg is a vulgarism or expletive used throughout the series of Red Dwarf. Although no specific meaning is ever given, it and its derivatives are regularly used as a derogatory term. On 14 February 2015 at the MCM Midlands Comic Con, Robert Llewellyn explicitly attested that smeg is a shortened version of smegma.

    The term "Smeghead" is used very commonly throughout as an insult towards characters in the show.


    Smeghead will be commonly used by a large part of the human race three million years into the future.


  • #137
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,525 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Baluba.


  • #138
    nazmoalex
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭nazmoalex


    Guttersnipe


  • #139
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sketch!


  • #140
    Triboro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 775 ✭✭✭Triboro


    fornent


  • #141
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,555 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Triboro wrote: »
    fornent

    Forninced
    Meaning in front of or beside? That's one that's rarely used where I'm from. Local explanation is that it's an Elisabethan word that comes from the plantation of my county.


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  • #142
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fecund - as in you fecund eejit :pac:


  • #143
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Fenian
    Gobsheen
    Quare hawk


  • #144
    honeyjo
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭honeyjo


    SpitfireIV wrote: »
    Blue rinse :cool:

    Remember when auld ones used to go about with lovely permed or set hair in a dashing shade of blue or purple, hah.


    loads of older women going round with Pink and Lilac hair nowadays.

    I'm really looking forward to the day when I can have a blue rinse


  • #145
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Poltroon

    Means coward


  • #146
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I'm going to regret this, but get your arm up where exactly?

    Under the hood? Must be able to bags of 5c coin in there.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #147
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,813 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    riclad wrote: »
    Every article i read about music,,eg its pop singers stans like her new music,
    eg it seems to be illegal to use the word fan.
    As in i,m a fan of taylor swift.
    stan brings to mind some enimem type weirdo whos obessed with a singer.
    its like 1984 ,the word no longer exists.
    betamax. vhs. 8 track.
    video nasty, from the 80s.
    Yeah that's exactly what a Stan, it's usually meant in a derogatory way towards fans


  • #148
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    SpitfireIV wrote: »
    Blue movie
    Jazz film. :D
    Mimon wrote: »
    Yeh, when did this change and why? Suddenly had this new BCE sh!te forced on us :mad: Don't even know the new AD term.
    Do not get me started. Common era and Before Common Era, neither make any sense. They've actually been around as terms for a while, used by a minority of atheistic and Jewish scholars, but the latter shift came from those bastions of robust thought US academia because it's supposed to be culturally sensitive to non Christians or something daft like that. The Muslim calendar uses its year zero as the year Muhammed brought the faithful to Medina and established the first permanent Muslim community. And fair enough. If I were living in a country or dealing with someone using that calendar I wouldn't be insisting they faff about with daft euphemisms for the exact same damned thing because I might be "sensitive" to it. :rolleyes:

    I will still use poxbottle on the fairly regular. EG; anyone using BCE/CE is an utter poxbottle.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #149
    Gregor Samsa
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Common era and Before Common Era, neither make any sense.

    Yeah, but BC and AD don't make any sense either, since (as I know you know), neither count time from the year Jesus was born.

    Either way, it's just a convention. And conventions don't necessarily make any sense.


  • #150
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Yeah, but BC and AD don't make any sense either, since (as I know you know), neither count time from the year Jesus was born.
    Actually nobody knows his birth year. Some put it between 4 and 8 AD IIRC. Year One was decided on again IIRC in the 5th century as the date they believed he was born.
    Either way, it's just a convention. And conventions don't necessarily make any sense.
    Indeed, but it makes little sense to change them for some nebulous cultural sensitivity notion either. I wouldn't want the Chinese, or Jewish, or Islamic calendar conventions changed either.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • #151
    mehico
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭mehico


    Sometimes you see the word "ilk" used on Boards but I don't think I have ever heard anyone use it in a conversation in person.


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