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Words no longer used.....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Youse

    Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.


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


    Langer


  • Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.


    yis


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    yis

    "What are yis/youse doing?"

    "Get yizzers coats, yis have pulled."

    So many variations, so many examples of poor English skills ...


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


    Joe cuddy is the name of a singer, I think theres plenty of older people who still use word frock. Zine
    Old word for amateur magazines printed use photocopiers
    made before the web existed usually black and white
    Wireless old word for radio
    Cordless phones used before mobile phones existed
    Standard home phones with no cable
    Webring collections of blogs about a topic
    Eg star trek webring


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.
    I particularly hate 'yizzer' (the word). ;)
    riclad wrote: »
    Zine
    Old word for amateur magazines printed use photocopiers
    made before the web existed usually black and white
    In my experience, that was more usually called a fanzine (fan magazine) but sometimes shortened to 'zine'.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Bamboozled (confused by).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    riclad wrote: »
    Wireless old word for radio

    Both words came into the language in conjunction. To describe transmission and reception using radio waves, and without the wired connection used by telegraphy. The noun wireless was a contraction of wireless set. Some people may remember the term television set as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,547 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.

    I love those little regional variations in expression. I'm not from Dublin but the lads who I've heard use it tend to use it partially tongue in cheek and ham the North side accent up a bit when they use it. I recognise I do the same with some old culchie expressions too.

    It's pretty important to know what's correct and what's performative.


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  • Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If ye think youse/yis/yisser/yizzer are problematic, just be glad we exported one our worst/most unusual you-plurals to the US a long time ago, where it lives on in the Appalachians. Yinz:
    Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones or "yous ones", a form of the second person plural commonly heard in parts of Ulster. When standard-English speakers talk in the first person or third person, they use different pronouns to distinguish between singular and plural. In the first person, for example, speakers use the singular I and the plural we. But when speaking in the second person, you performs double duty as both the singular form and the plural form. Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tú, as well as a plural form, sibh. The following, therefore, is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [juː wʌnz] > you'uns [juːʌnz] > youns [juːnz] > yunz [jʌnz] > yinz [jɪ̈nz]. Because there are still speakers who use each form,[2] there is no stable second-person plural pronoun form in southwest or central Pennsylvania, which is why the pronoun is variably referred to or spelled as you'uns, y'ins, y'uns, yunz, yuns, yinz, yenz, yins or ynz.

    In other parts of the U.S., Irish or Scots-Irish speakers encountered the same gap in the second-person plural. For this reason, these speakers are also responsible for coining the yunz used in and around Middletown, Pennsylvania, as well as the youse found mainly in New York City, the Philadelphia dialect and New Jersey, and the ubiquitous y'all of the South


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Chisellers when referring to young children(usually boys)

    Maggotty or mouldy for someone who is very drunk, fluthered for someone who is drunk but not quite maggotty or mouldy.

    Guther as a suggestive statement towards a female, as in " get up on your guther Mary Anne"

    Louser = someone untrustworthy.

    Gonch = idiot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    Ha'porth

    From "Half-pennys worth".. meaning almost nothing


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


    Happenstance : Chance, serendipity, fortuity. Looked up some synonyms! Never heard of fortuity.
    Provender . First heard it used in "The History of Mr. Polly". Food, sustenance, [the second would be my understanding of the word]. Animal fodder as well.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Gramophone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Redolent

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



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Janey Mack

    Palavar

    Ekker (homework)

    bowsie

    buckled (verb, seems to have been replaced by locked)

    use your loaf ect

    motor car

    mickey monk


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


    Gramophone.
    Wireless

    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Janey Mac me shirt is black,
    What'll I do for Sunday?
    Go to bed and cover your head,
    And don't get up till Monday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,087 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Radiogram

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Radiogram

    Had to google it, didn't know that unit had a name. Very neat :)

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I wonder if I watched Minder or Only Fools & Horses now with someone born in the noughties how much of the slang would totally pass them by...
    Plonker for example, and the cockney rhyming slang (I think I even struggled with some of them back in the 80s).

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Mahogany gaspipe.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Omnibus.
    Charabanc.
    Motor Spirit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Fils


    Moist
    Undercarriage


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Omnibus.
    Charabanc.
    Motor Spirit.

    I think we were looking for words used since the war.
    :)

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I think we were looking for words used since the war.
    :)

    The Great War?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Great War?

    What's that?
    :)

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I think we were looking for words used since the war.
    :)

    Omnibus has been used extensively on Boards over the last few years. As lately as two months ago, in the sense of the vehicle which is now called simply a bus. The other usage "omnibus edition" is common also.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116982698


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    My late grandmother, talking about The Great War \ World War One would describe it as being fought against the Prussians rather than Germans.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,796 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    Chisellers when referring to young children(usually boys)

    Maggotty or mouldy for someone who is very drunk, fluthered for someone who is drunk but not quite maggotty or mouldy.

    Guther as a suggestive statement towards a female, as in " get up on your guther Mary Anne"

    Louser = someone untrustworthy.

    Gonch = idiot.

    A teacher used to refer to us as lousers... “I gave you no homework and instead asked you to study for this test, and fellas here, five of yiz failed and five of yous got 80% or more, the rest, bang average, bunch of lousers...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Strumms wrote: »
    A teacher used to refer to us as lousers... “I gave you no homework and instead asked you to study for this test, and fellas here, five of yiz failed and five of yous got 80% or more, the rest, bang average, bunch of lousers...

    Was used to describe someone with red hair when I was growing up.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,164 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Living in sin

    Fornicate ( apart from Mayo politicians)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    Lachico.

    Generally used by a dad describing a messer or an eejit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Scoundrel
    Canoodle
    Langer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,164 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Are the haberdasheries open again since lockdown?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    Gossen or gossun.
    Is it out of use now?
    My grandad used to use it when he was talking about a young fellow.
    I thing it was originally from French, Garçon.


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


    mod as in follower of fashion ,eg mods and rockers from the 60s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Scoundrel
    Canoodle
    Langer

    First two for sure, but I understand Langer is still going strong in Cork, they have their own ways there, south of the wall.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    riclad wrote: »
    mod as in follower of fashion ,eg mods and rockers from the 60s.

    Unless Paul Weller is about.

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



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  • Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭chosen1


    Kewreeuss wrote: »
    Gossen or gossun.
    Is it out of use now?
    My grandad used to use it when he was talking about a young fellow.
    I thing it was originally from French, Garçon.

    Still going strong in the midlands anyway.


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


    One came into my head earlier, don't know why, but a word used to describe someone who took a good fall or a smack, they got 'lamped'...

    Is that a local/regional thing or was it more widely used?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    SpitfireIV wrote: »
    One came into my head earlier, don't know why, but a word used to describe someone who took a good fall or a smack, they got 'lamped'...

    Is that a local/regional thing or was it more widely used?

    Have heard it in Dublin alright.

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



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


    chosen1 wrote: »
    Still going strong in the midlands anyway.
    When I was a lad visiting my relatives in Cork I was a "gorsoon". That's how they pronounced it. I think the French origin may be correct.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭blackbox


    Continental quilt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Mowdies =head lice

    Mottin = going with a girl

    Follyin-upper = Tv or cinema serial

    latchyco -= rascal

    squirt= small person


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Rabbit ears.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,133 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Diminuitive

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



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


    blackbox wrote: »
    Continental quilt.

    candlewick

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Wibbs wrote: »
    the "shores" instead of "drains", IE the shore's blocked again, I haven't heard in while. Bowler for a dog was another. Though I think both are/were more Dublin based.

    I always call dogs bowlers. Most of my mates would as well. Is it dying out?

    I nominate wojus. It’s a Dublin way of saying bad.

    “That haircut is bleedin wojus youngfella.”

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭boardise


    Film (now commonly called a movie).

    Chemist (now commonly called a Pharmacy). It's probably a reflection of where the industry has gone more than the commonly used name shifting from chemist to pharmacy but....to me chemist conjures up an image of an well seasoned old guy in a white coat and glasses knowing exactly whats needed to sort that itchy flaky sack, invariably often saving you a trip to the doctor for anything that is over the counter. Pharmacy on the other hand conjures up an image of a place more interested in shifting Hugo Boss and 500 ml bottles of coke zero.

    Conservatory (now commonly called a sun room).

    Match as in rugby, football, hurling match etc (now more commonly called the game).

    Solicitor (now more commonly called lawyer for some reason - possibly will become attorney in a few years time?)

    Bear with me - so 2002 at this stage!

    On my first forays into rural Ireland I was fascinated to see so many towns featured establishments titled 'Medical Halls' which I had known as Chemists.


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