The world "grushie"

44leto

al28283 wrote: »

Nope, that was Belvedere.

buncha saps

I our school we use to say bunch of:p

al28283

44leto wrote: »

I our school we use to say bunch of:p

in our school we used to say In

44leto

al28283 wrote: »

in our school we used to say In

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super_furry

alwaysadub wrote: »

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

Weird, I'm from Tallaght and it was always grushie.

Balmed Out

Well my school was better then either of yours.

PhlegmyMoses

Abi wrote: »

What does the all a bah bit mean?

Could be ab ea, maybe? Not sure it makes sense from a Gaeilge perspective but it's makes as much sense as a bah.

Skerries

one more for the Northside Gushie pile

friend and foe

southsider here, and it was both 'gushie' and 'grushie' in our school, depending on who called it (usually not the person whose stuff was being thrown about)

usually used with sweets, change and stacks of premier league stickers..

actua11

You'd swear there were food shortages they way at the shout of 'gushie' people would pile in and and fight it out for the sake of a thrown half kit-kat that was in pieces when it hit the floor or being trampled by the onrushing stampede!

Sunnyisland

Grushie, Ballyfermot :-)

Richard Hillman

Premier league stickers were banned in my primary school because of them. There used to be carnage at lunchtime :pac:

44leto

I don't think the grusies were dangerous but the pile ups definitely were, how no-one was killed I would never know, some may have suffered a bit of anoxia and then brain damage, but you wouldn't have noticed that in my old school.

Abi

Caraville wrote: »

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

I'm from Dublin and I've never heard of either of them.

DEVEREUX

+1 for Grushie. (Rathmines/ Harolds Cross)

Their used to be a hobo that wandered the area "The Halfpenny Man", pronounced Haepenny.
The local kids would pester him for money so to rid himself of us he would throw up change and carnage would result. "GRUUUUSSSHIE"

PhlegmyMoses

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Premier league stickers were banned in my primary school because of them. There used to be carnage at lunchtime :pac:

25 Peter Fear stickers left on the ground as everybody already had him

I_am_LOST

It's gushie not grushie!

And we did it for sweets in school

UglyBolloxFace

It's "grushie"!:mad::pac:

How do you add a poll after the thread has already been posted?

UglyBolloxFace

44leto wrote: »

I don't think the grusies were dangerous but the pile ups definitely were, how no-one was killed I would never know, some may have suffered a bit of anoxia and then brain damage, but you wouldn't have noticed that in my old school.

UglyBolloxFace

Jesus OP, when you say "world" do ye actually mean "word"? Ye fecking idiot!

....oh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait!!!!!

dan185

A family member did it at my parents wedding and smashed the wedding car window!:D

opinion guy

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Jesus OP, when you say "world" do ye actually mean "word"? Ye fecking idiot!

....oh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait!!!!!

Finally ...................http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78333295&postcount=5

UglyBolloxFace

opinion guy wrote: »

Finally ...................http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78333295&postcount=5

Hmmm...http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTj0pm3FMxpzgCM7ulmkQOM_he4ebcFGyDcH-KXYgQYP3X23UG4cF1F6w7FCA

And yes, the "your" is intentional.

Squidgy Black

Gushie over here as well, another Northsider.

From what I remember, nobody actually really cared about what was being thrown in, it was simply for a laugh and baiting the ****e out of each other and having a valid reason.

Jocking was pretty popular too, got in some right crap with the principal for jocking a lad I hung around with in the middle of a huge yard in front of a female teachers. Cacks and all.

WindSock

Gushie / North Dub / F

Never heard of Grushie before.

Is it a Dublin thing or do our bumpkin cousins have the words too?

UglyBolloxFace

stetyrrell wrote: »

Gushie over here as well, another Northsider.

From what I remember, nobody actually really cared about what was being thrown in, it was simply for a laugh and baiting the ****e out of each other and having a valid reason.

Jocking was pretty popular too, got in some right crap with the principal for jocking a lad I hung around with in the middle of a huge yard in front of a female teachers. Cacks and all.

Yeah I remember jocking, but in my school we were even worse. We used to do "ball knock". Basically, walking by somebody, you quickly bounce/punch your knuckles off their bollocks. Very gay, yes, and very painful.

Satts

Its Grushie, a Group rush.

Dave!

Gushie. Like your ma.

Mance Rayder

I saw the word grushie and came here looking for my free stuff, and I find this... What gives?

Dudess

foxyboxer wrote: »

All a bah!!!

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

Don't know that one.

opinion guy wrote: »

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

I didn't get it.

Smidge

The word is Grushie.
It originates from a Scottish word and translates to mean "Healthy and Thriving".
It probably came from Roman origin initially as there is evidence that the Romans had a similar tradition of "Throwing the Coin" at weddings.
It's is reckoned that the Grushie tradition at Irish weddings came from Irish people who were living in England and saw this tradition of what the English called "Throwing The Coin" and which the English had taken from the Scots tradition of "Grushie".
Obviously, the Irish people who returned home with this tradition wouldn't give the English the satisfaction of using the English term for it, so we used "Grushie"
Phew:p

Cicero

stovelid wrote: »

It was grushie.

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

...which usually led to a wedgie ..

languagenerd

Gushie - three schools in Dublin 12 (mine, my brothers and another one we went to for summer camps).

Never heard of this money-at-a-wedding thing!
We used the word at lunch-time in primary school and the early years of secondary school - when someone got something they didn't like for lunch and several people around them wanted it, they'd throw it in air and yell "gushie!". Whoever caught it, got it.

opinion guy

Dudess wrote: »

Don't know that one.

I didn't get it.

I know. Noone did. A grammar nazi pun with a geeky Futurama reference in an AH thread full of grammar nazi discussion and no-one got it.
You are slipping people of AH slipping.
Blast yis with piss.
Yore ma.

Pride Fighter

languagenerd wrote: »

Gushie - three schools in Dublin 12 (mine, my brothers and another one we went to for summer camps).

I went to 3 schools in Dublin 12 too, and it was grushie. There was a fellow near where we lived and he used to throw money into the air. He was affectionately known as the grushie man.


Also I've read through the thread and grushie is winning, and the proper etymology of the word is grushie as at least 3 posters have proved already.

LH Pathe

Only people who started grushies were future heads of businesses who enjoyed watching people grovel for their money. Future little pudgy cùnts who stutter to reason and flatter to decieve

admiralofthefleet

im going to do it at my wedding in 5 weeks but im going to throw razor blades in the air for all the arklow kiddies to catch then im moving home to Dublin

foxyboxer

Abi wrote: »

What does the all a bah bit mean?

I don't think it's the same as a Grushie which is done by someone else.

It was a declaration that your crisps/sweets could be claimed by all and sundry. You would declare "All a bah for Monster Munch!" which let people know you'd be holding the bag out for people to take some.

If you were trolling people you'd do the following.

"All a bah!" and hold out the bag.

Wait for someone to reach for one. Withdraw the bag and say

"Mockeyah!!!" :pac:

Abi

foxyboxer wrote: »

Abi wrote: »

What does the all a bah bit mean?

I don't think it's the same as a Grushie which is done by someone else.

It was a declaration that your crisps/sweets could be claimed by all and sundry. You would declare "All a bah for Monster Munch!" which let people know you'd be holding the bag out for people to take some.

If you were trolling people you'd do the following.

"All a bah!" and hold out the bag.

Wait for someone to reach for one. Withdraw the bag and say

"Mockeyah!!!" :pac:

Ah, I see. What does mockeyah mean?


We could be here a while :pac:

foxyboxer

Abi wrote: »

Ah, I see. What does mockeyah mean?


We could be here a while :pac:

Something fake or untruthful.

"Is that a real Rolex?"
"Nah, it's only a mockeyah one I got in Spain"

Or

"I didn't know that the WWE wrestling is only mockeyah?"

RoryMurphyJnr

was always gushie

cowzerp

It was called a Grushie, notice half the people calling it a gusjie are going on about school yards and sweets, Grushies where only at weddings and was only with money, Feck your sweets.

Gushie sounds Ghey!

Sofaspud

It was both Grushie and Gushie when I was a kid! It depends on the area.
I started off in Ballymun and it was Grushie, was always a handfull of money thrown out before the groom got in the limo to go to the church.
Then I moved to Howth and suddenly it was Gushie, and only involved pogs, and nobody did them for weddings.

Was always a huge occasion when someone was getting married, just for the grushie!

Susie_Q

Gushie! Oh the memories. Such violent pile-ons all for the sake of a half chewed toffee. Amazing!

stovelid

Abi wrote: »

I'm from Dublin and I've never heard of either of them.

It was only popular amongst the horrid, common children.

sbsquarepants

It's a grushie ffs. And they were the dogs bollox,especially at weddings when the oldies were half cut and loose with the pound coins, fúck that 2p 5p nonsense.
A gushie is something to do with squirters i think:)

rainbowdrop

Never heard the word grushie/gushie, but if someone threw sweets/money in the air at my school in the north of England, the word used was 'SCRAMBLE' and then everyone would 'pile on' to get whatever had been thrown........

Never saw it being done with money at a wedding though........

pickarooney

al28283 wrote: »

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

I'd say Maire and Pol were just looking for any excuse.

Raytown Rocks

Grushie or grushee where I lived In Ringsend.
Usually happened outside the house of the Bride for the kids on the road.
Then a bigger one from all the men outside the church before they left for the reception.

Caused bedlam amongst the kids, battering each other to get the money.
Think the local church asked for it to stop for H&S reasons.
Kids were on the roads shouting " Throw it out, Throw it out" with cars passing etc


Ah I miss them days

Frankly my dear

It was a gushie in Bray back in the day, someone would throw away their little collection marbles and shout gushie, everyone would pile in. Getting a few Bottlers was always a sign of triumph in such situations. Ah the memories.

Kev_2012

Does anyone remember the saying "up for the boots"?

As in if someone had a pack of sweets or something and they were up for the boots, they would throw them in the air and whoever caught them would keep em.

My friends and I used say it the whole time and I heard the Rubberbandits using it before in a prank phonecall but no one else seems to remember it!