Words no longer used.....

angel eyes 2012 · 17-06-2021 9:40pm

Floppy disk
The pipe is gone (as in TV signal)
Building Society
Commerce as a school subject

blackvalley · 17-06-2021 9:46pm

mistersifter wrote: »

Poxbottle

Along the same lines is that great word " shytehalk "

Dempo1 · 17-06-2021 9:47pm

Gick, my all time favourite but rarely used

blackvalley · 17-06-2021 10:00pm

Toerag

EmmetSpiceland · 17-06-2021 10:01pm

Dempo1 wrote: »

Gick, my all time favourite but rarely used

Still very much alive in parts of South Dublin. Terenure College is known as ‘The Gick’.

Archeron · 17-06-2021 10:04pm

Flumps

Mimon · 17-06-2021 10:10pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Floppy disk
The pipe is gone (as in TV signal)
Building Society
Commerce as a school subject

Ah, thanks for reminding me of pipe tv. There was a local one in our town that the lad in the TV shop set up by running cables all across the roofs to peoples houses from his satellite dish

Think my parent paid about 30 pounds a year for it.

Remember having Sky way before most of the country.

SpitfireIV · 17-06-2021 10:11pm

Carburator, points and choke words used, often in frustration, by the motorist up to relatively recent years...

Nozebleed · 17-06-2021 10:14pm

blouse

Dempo1 · 17-06-2021 10:16pm

blackvalley wrote: »

Toerag

Actually used that word earlier

branie2 · 17-06-2021 10:17pm

AD and BC

Mimon · 17-06-2021 10:18pm

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.

Mimon · 17-06-2021 10:20pm

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.

branie2 · 17-06-2021 10:21pm

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

[Deleted User] · 17-06-2021 10:24pm

Nozebleed wrote: »

blouse

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

odyssey06 · 17-06-2021 10:24pm

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.

Leg End Reject · 17-06-2021 10:25pm

branie2 wrote: »

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

I've never heard of that! What does CE stand for?

branie2 · 17-06-2021 10:26pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I've never heard of that! What does CE stand for?

Common Era

SpitfireIV · 17-06-2021 10:27pm

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.

El_Duderino 09 · 17-06-2021 10:32pm

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

Jakey Rolling · 17-06-2021 10:36pm

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.

Nigzcurran · 17-06-2021 10:39pm

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

deise08 · 17-06-2021 10:46pm

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.'

scotchy · 17-06-2021 10:49pm

Gadzooks

indioblack · 17-06-2021 10:57pm

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.