To give someone jip

Potential-Monke · 12-08-2020 8:52pm #1

So I just used this phrase when explaining to someone that someone else was giving out, or if technology doesn't work the way it should, ie: he was giving me some fair jip over my comment/the laptop is giving me jip over going to a certain website. I have used it for a long time, and always thought it meant that, or something along those lines.

The person I was saying it to is Spanish, so asked for an explanation. I said the above, but curiosity got to me and I Googled it, and to my surprise it's apparantly an Irish colloquialism for ejaculated semen, which gives a completely different meaning to when I use it!

Anyone else heard of this expression used in the way I use it?

Cazale · 12-08-2020 8:55pm

The jip out of him means someone mouthing off.

One eyed Jack · 12-08-2020 8:57pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Anyone else heard of this expression used in the way I use it?

I’ve ONLY ever heard anyone use the word jip in the way you use it.

I’ve never heard of the alternative definition, which to be honest sounds like bullshìt (not you bullshìtting, I googled it too :pac:)

HeidiHeidi · 12-08-2020 8:58pm

I thought it was gyp.....

and never heard of the other definition either!

Potential-Monke · 12-08-2020 9:00pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I thought it was gyp.....

and never heard of the other definition either!

That's the shortened version of those who shall not be named.

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Charlie19 · 12-08-2020 9:02pm

I don't like the cut of your jib.

o1s1n · 12-08-2020 9:05pm

We would have used that as teenagers in the late 90s to describe the alternative meaning.

If someone had a stain on their trousers;

'haha look at the jip stain!'

Haven't heard it used that way in years though!

Conall Cernach · 12-08-2020 9:29pm

The English slang term "Gyp" is used to express a bit of trouble e.g. "My back is giving me gyp".
The Irish slang term "Jip" would appear to mean an amount of ejaculate e.g. "yer one in that video got a face full of jip."

Strumms · 12-08-2020 10:11pm

Our old form teacher used to use that term... “don’t you be giving me any of your gyp”.. if you were giving him cheek or being smart...he never understood why the class would break into convulsions of laughter after he’d say it..

Gregor Samsa · 13-08-2020 12:58am

A friend's mum was up in her daughter's room making the bed one day. She looked out the window, and saw the young teenage guy in the house across the road **** off in his bedroom with his curtains open.

His nickname was instantly "the Jip Master". I can't even remember his actual name, because it no longer mattered. We'd do the **** sound by pulling our cheeks if he passed us. One day he was sitting on a wall as we walked home from school. "Youse are all stupid going to school! I get 32 pound on the scratch. I don't need no education!", he eloquently exclaimed. We fell around the place laughing.

Good old Jip Master. I'm sure it all worked out well for him.

Bobblehats · 13-08-2020 1:02am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

That's the shortened version of those who shall not be named.

Just say it! Little calcium sulfate dihydrated bastards

Back in the day they were considered a fertilizer and were put to work as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, blackboard/sidewalk chalk and drywall.

mikhail · 13-08-2020 9:59pm

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gyp

A few alternative etymologies here, but the most plausible seems to be that it's from gypsy, and is probably worth swapping out for something.

I tend to say that "X is giving me grief" these days, which is pretty much a straight swap without any potential for offending. Not that I'd give anyone a hard time for using it in innocence, but some people don't give the benefit of the doubt these days.

Jip as a synonym for ejaculate is one I remember from the school-yard, all right.

cj maxx · 13-08-2020 10:25pm

I've never heard gyp. The cut of his jib yes I've heard.
Actually now , saying it rather than reading it, someone giving jip would be giving smartarsed comments or giving cheek back to you.

smellyoldboot · 14-08-2020 10:33pm

Often use it meself. "No more gyp out of you" "Giving me awful gyp" etc.

Even to look at the word it seems to be a contraction of "gypsy" which would make sense as it seems to be a substitute for trouble/hassle/difficulty.

Girl from Whitesnake Video · 15-08-2020 2:42am

Heard of it in both contexts.

15-08-2020 9:21am

It’s jib rather than jip when used in the context explained in the op.

El_Duderino 09 · 15-08-2020 9:58am

Sariah Tart Pepperoni wrote: »

It’s jib rather than jip when used in the context explained in the op.

Jib is separate from the context in the op. A jib is a sailing term. It's the small sail at the front of the boat. You trim the jib for the conditions and if someone trimmed it correctly you might say you like the cut of their jib. But they totally separate from jip/gyp meaning pain or grief.

15-08-2020 12:28pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Jib is separate from the context in the op. A jib is a sailing term. It's the small sail at the front of the boat. You trim the jib for the conditions and if someone trimmed it correctly you might say you like the cut of their jib. But they totally separate from jip/gyp meaning pain or grief.

Would always have heard it said as jib, as in “he was giving awful jib”. Never heard it said as jip in any context.

El_Duderino 09 · 15-08-2020 1:01pm

Sariah Tart Pepperoni wrote: »

Would always have heard it said as jib, as in “he was giving awful jib”. Never heard it said as jip in any context.

Well, that's the word and that's what it means. A jib is the small sail at the front of a boat. Jip/gyp are pain or grief

15-08-2020 3:35pm

I’m English, have only ever heard of “... he’s giving me gyp” = he’s giving me a pain in the ar$e. And not recently, either. Didn’t know the root of it, though.

El_Duderino 09 · 15-08-2020 3:43pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I’m English, have only ever heard of “... he’s giving me gyp” = he’s giving me a pain in the ar$e. And not recently, either. Didn’t know the root of it, though.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/gyp.html

This seems to be a good explanation of the origin. Not sure how reliable the site is though.

15-08-2020 3:57pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/gyp.html

This seems to be a good explanation of the origin. Not sure how reliable the site is though.

Thanks, that’s exactly the way I remember it used, along with gyppy tummy. You could have one of those after spicy food. Like having a Delhi Belly.

John_Rambo · 15-08-2020 11:49pm

My differentiator:

"I don't like the cut of your jib"
(I don't trust or like the looks of this fella) From sailing terminology which I'd be familiar with, but most likely goes back to square ship sailing where a badly cut or set foresail would be a sign of slovenliness, bad seamanship, corsairs or piracy.

"He's giving me jip"
(talking crap or giving me hassle) probably from ejaculation as in he's talking ****. Pure Irish.

To give someone jip

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