The world "grushie"

UglyBolloxFace

In school, if someone was counting a load of change, some **** would slap underneath his hand sending the money flying. Someone would then immediately shout "grushie", meaning that the money on the ground is fair game.

Does anyone else remember this word? Or am I going mental.

Edit - just found this: http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/topic104774.html

micropig

first time I've heard it tbh

mongdesade

Common practice at weddings, family gatherings etc., in inner city Dublin back in the day

AnonoBoy

You're going mental. Although remembering this word has nothing to do with that. Most likely it's the tumor pressing on your brain that's causing it.

opinion guy

Never heard of the world grushie. Is it somewhere near Tatooine ??? Or out near Omicron Perseii 8 ???

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Gushie is what we called it. It worked with sweets too.

Mayhem!!

I always thought it was Gushie. In school when somebody was giving something away they would feck it in the air and let everyone fight for it like a pack of dogs. good times.

Sunnyisland

Remember them well, Usually outside the church at a weddings,Money being thrown in the air and there would be murder in trying to pick it up when it landed,crazy carry on I tell ya.

subway

Bill Cullen made his first million at a grushie

foxyboxer

All a bah!!!

That's the cork slang.
"All a bah for a bag o Meanies"

Paparazzo

benwavner wrote: »

Gushie is what we called it. It worked with sweets too.

Mayhem!!

Yeah, alwasys gushie in my schools. "grushie"? Doesn't roll off the tongue

44leto

Yes I know the word "grushie" and I was in many, we use to live near a church and the best man would throw out a load of change and we would all scramble for it.

Eathrin

Wow I had completely forgotten that word, though we called it Gushie back in primary school. Usually for sweets or something at the end of a pack it would be thrown in the air and 'gushie' was yelled. Good times.

Mickey H

micropig wrote: »

first time I've heard it tbh

Never head of it either.

Have I missed out?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Paparazzo wrote: »

Yeah, alwasys gushie in my schools. "grushie"? Doesn't roll off the tongue

Yeah, this topic popped up a few years ago with friends. We were comparing the most we got at a gushie. One of the guys says "It's called a grushie ya thicks".........Fry cant squint hard enough in a meme for that guy!

ladypip

44leto wrote: »

Yes I know the word "grushie" and I was in many, we use to live near a church and the best man would throw out a load of change and we would all scramble for it.

+1
I lived near a church as well it was brillient during the summer !!!

al28283

It's Gushie, not Grushie

44leto

al28283 wrote: »

It's Gushie, not Grushie

It was grushie were i was from. (north Dub)

heavyballs

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

In school, if someone was counting a load of change, some **** would slap underneath his hand sending the money flying. Someone would then immediately shout "grushie", meaning that the money on the ground is fair game.

Does anyone else remember this word? Or am I going mental.

Edit - just found this: http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/topic104774.html

I had a slightly different understanding of it though.
If someone had a daddyyo steely or a spare 50 p they would announce that there was going to be a grushie and then the riot would commence.

cocoshovel

Ive never heard of that word but I do know the practice fairly well.

Also we used to have money mosh pits. Get about 5-10 lads, throw a 20 cent on the ground in between ye and then proceed to bait the shíte out of each other while trying to pick up and claim the 20cent. :pac:

Is the term Gushie only a Dublin thing? Ive never heard of it until now.

al28283

44leto wrote: »

It was grushie were i was from. (north Dub)

Nah, in North Dublin it was Gushie and we would pick on people who said Grushie.

jos28

It was a grushie when I was a kid. Like other posters I lived near a church and we would run up when there was a wedding on. The groom would throw loads of coins to all the kids. It was supposed to bring the bride and groom good luck apparently,

Abi

foxyboxer wrote: »

All a bah!!!

That's the cork slang.
"All a bah for a bag o Meanies"

What does the all a bah bit mean?

SteoL

al28283 wrote: »

44leto wrote: »

It was grushie were i was from. (north Dub)

Nah, in North Dublin it was Gushie and we would pick on people who said Grushie.

Also a north Dub here and it was always a Grushie when I was growing up.

al28283

4. gushy

Shout signifying then beginning of a free-for-all scramble for some object.
Sean tossed the half eaten apple into the air yelling 'Gushy'. Maire and Pol scrambled desperatly over each other to grab the remains of the apple.


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gushy

stovelid

We used to say it in school.

It was grushie.

Also when the poor mug got his hand on the coin, everybody started jumping on him chanting Pile On, Pile On.

Sir Oxman

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

In school, if someone was counting a load of change, some **** would slap underneath his hand sending the money flying. Someone would then immediately shout "grushie", meaning that the money on the ground is fair game.

Does anyone else remember this word? Or am I going mental.

Edit - just found this: http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/topic104774.html

Was grushie where I grew up in dublin.
Got caught a few times with that!

44leto

stovelid wrote: »

We used to say it in school.

It was grushie.

Also when the poor mug got his hand on the coin, everybody started jumping on him chanting Pile On, Pile On.

It was Pile up, pile up but you got grushie right.

The grammar on boards is appalling.

al28283

gambiaman wrote: »

Was grushie where I grew up in dublin.
Got caught a few times with that!

Did you say "package of crips" aswell?

Paparazzo

44leto wrote: »

It was grushie were i was from. (north Dub)

al28283 wrote: »

Nah, in North Dublin it was Gushie and we would pick on people who said Grushie.

North Dublin school too and it was Gushie.
"Grushie" schools were weird.

What about pulling someones trousers down? In my school it was called "jocking" someone. "Damo got jocked in front of the whole class"
Was talking to someone who went to blackrock and he said he was called "panting". Weirdos

super_furry

Remember when I was a kid, any girl getting married on the road's Dad would do it just before she came out to get in the car.

ElleEm

We called it grushie but I knew a few people who lived elsewhere that called it a gushie.

Where I lived, as the wedding car left the bride's house to go off to the Church, the father of the bride would throw loads of money out the window.

Good times!!

the groutch

I sense a poll coming

ElleEm

the groutch wrote: »

I sense a poll coming

It should definitely include Southside and Northside Dubs, as well as country folk!

the groutch

al28283 wrote: »

Did you say "package of crips" aswell?

Crisp Sangwidge FTW

44leto

A poll would settle the grushie///spits "gushie" question.

OP put up a poll to make a fools of the "gushie" brigade.

spurious

From 'Slanguage - a dictionary of Irish slang'.

Grush/Grushie
n. and vb.
Scramble for small change thrown to children, esp. after a wedding;
throw or scramble for such change.

Abi

What is a world grushie?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

spurious wrote: »

From 'Slanguage - a dictionary of Irish slang'.

Grush/Grushie
n. and vb.
Scramble for small change thrown to children, esp. after a wedding;
throw or scramble for such change.

That dictionary is wrong......yer man was just pissed when he ws typing.

stovelid

44leto wrote: »

It was Pile up, pile up but you got grushie right.

The grammar on boards is appalling.

My grammar is fine and it was pile on as far as I remember. Maybe you went to a mongo school.

44leto

benwavner wrote: »

That dictionary is wrong......yer man was just pissed when he ws typing.

Yeah how would he know, bet he was the type that was afraid of the pile up and spent all his youth on a ping pong computer game.

44leto

stovelid wrote: »

My grammar is fine and it was pile on as far as I remember. Maybe you went to a mongo school.

Or maybe I was in to many pile ups:(

pc7

Gushie (north dub) when I was younger

kincsem

"Giz yer odds"
"I beg your pardon"
"The child wants you to give him your loose change"

opinion guy

opinion guy wrote: »

Never heard of the world grushie. Is it somewhere near Tatooine ??? Or out near Omicron Perseii 8 ???

Not a single thanks ?? My comic talents are wasted on ye :mad:

alwaysadub

Gushie where I'm from. (Tallaght)
We used to get sweet gushies too when the money ran out.

Muff_Daddy

No r in gushie.

al28283

44leto wrote: »

Or maybe I was in to many pile ups:(

In my school we said "too"

Balmed Out

al28283 wrote: »

In my school we said "too"

I'd bet ye also played rugby

Caraville

This has to be a Dublin thing, I've never heard it before in my life.

I love all these kinds of mad words Irish people have though

al28283

Balmed Out wrote: »

I'd bet ye also played rugby

Nope, that was Belvedere.

buncha saps