The world "grushie"

Seachmall

I think it was a trick your "friends" played to get your sweets.

Abi

stovelid wrote: »

Abi wrote: »

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

It was only popular amongst the horrid, common children.

Thanks for clearing that up for me :pac:

Rocky_Dennis

I remember it well, although the Dublin folk here seem to call it Gushie/Grushie, weirdos.

hidinginthebush

Wasn't there a thread on this yesterday, except it's called a "Gushie"

Ash.J.Williams

Kev_2012 wrote: »

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!

Well thank you very much! I now understand "ambrose holohan is throwin fizzy chewits up for the boot" means.....thought it was hilarious anyway!!

Susie_Q

sbsquarepants wrote: »

It's a grushie ffs.

You mean to say "It's a grushie where I grew up". It was gushie in my town, and your trite "ffs" doesn't change that.

o1s1n

The most impressive gushie I've ever seen was back in primary school, when someone accidentally let a container of their Pogs fall all over the yard.

A gushie cry went out and about 100 children descended like angry, rioting vultures. It was insane.

El Weirdo

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Wasn't there a thread on this yesterday, except it's called a "Gushie"

Similar enough for a merge anyway.

Merged.

Dyr

44leto wrote: »

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

The grammar on boards is appalling.

Ah yes the pile up, usually invoked when some poor bugger had fallen over by accident etc. Many a child was near killed in those pile ups. Simpler times, Happier times.

Skerries

has anyone heard the expression Bally Up before? seemingly it means to put a condom on

Kev_2012

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Well thank you very much! I now understand "ambrose holohan is throwin fizzy chewits up for the boot" means.....thought it was hilarious anyway!!

Yeah thats where it resurfaced! But it's weird because myself and about 3/4 of my friends have used it before and the rubberbandits did, but no one else in limerick did! Even though they grew up on the opposite side of the city! found it strange!

Rocky_Dennis

Did anyone else play a game called Nuts in school, it consisted of a cap off a bottle being kicked around and if it was kicked through someones legs, Nuts was shouted and the person who got "Nutz" got a beating?

Kev_2012

Rocky_Dennis wrote: »

Did anyone else play a game called Nuts in school, it consisted of a cap off a bottle being kicked around and if it was kicked through someones legs, Nuts was shouted and the person who got "Nutz" got a beating?

Yep. About 50 6th years beat the **** out of you. Great craic!

Dyr

Skerries wrote: »

has anyone heard the expression Bally Up before? seemingly it means to put a condom on

Bally=balaclava. Bally up =to wear a balaclava usually for nefarious reasons. From there the condom reference

jack presley

Used to love these. Which is probably why I can't remember whether we called it a gushee or a grushee. I'm leaning towards gushee but can't be sure.

The one I remember the best was when we were in 5th class and had to be the choir for the confo. After the mass the teacher gave a bag of sweets to 'share'. Needless to say they were fcuked in the air and the carnage began

Dublin 9 by the way

Hannibal Smith

Hahaa I remember grushies! I don't remember people slapping my hand in school as I counted my change, if they'd done it I'd have slapped their head...though if I had that much change in school it would have been a miracle I only remember them at weddings, as the bride's car was pulling away from the house, the father of the bride would throw out a load of change and we'd all shout 'grushie!' and grab what we could. I always assumed it was to keep us away from the car

cowzerp

Skerries wrote: »

has anyone heard the expression Bally Up before? seemingly it means to put a condom on

Gushie is been talked about with sweets, Grushie was money and usually wedding related, i think 2 seperate things are going on here.

languagenerd

Pride Fighter wrote: »

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.

I wasn't saying "grushie" was wrong, was just saying which one I've heard/used!

Mensch Maschine

lan·guage:

Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.

Doesn't matter how the **** you pronounced it. It was funny back in the day. Grab someones pencil case, empty contents, **** across room and shout g(r)ushie.

I think both ways of spelling and pronounciation transcend even and odd postcodes.

ShaneU

Grushie.

The best man at a wedding would throw the loose coppers from his wallet in the air and the deprived children (me) would scramble for it

Teyla Emmagan

I feel sorry for all of you. And your poverty stricken childhoods.

Mensch Maschine

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I feel sorry for all of you. And your poverty stricken childhoods.

Not as sorry as I for your taste in television.

ThePathIChoose

Hey Ugly, no you're not menthol. I remember it as Grushie as cisk said, although ebn could also be correct. Although it was probably more like 'crushie' after the mayhem that ensued. I remember it as a supply and demand channel, when one person only had one of something left and there was a demand for it. They'd fcuk it over their shoulder like a wedding bouquet and let the hoi polloi sort it out amongst themselves.

There is a reference to it in this classic song extolling the versatility of the banana.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koEjkAW8JIg

Teyla Emmagan

Mensch Maschine wrote: »

Not as sorry as I for your taste in television.

What are you on about?

Hannibal Smith

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I feel sorry for all of you. And your poverty stricken childhoods.

Hey! Don't feel sorry for me, I bought a choc ice from the spoils of one grushie...a whole choc ice! They were big money in those days *rocks in rocking chair remembering when this was all fields*

al28283

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Hey! Don't feel sorry for me, I bought a choc ice from the spoils of one grushie...a whole choc ice! They were big money in those days *rocks in rocking chair remembering when this was all fields*

don't you mean a chroc ice?

Teyla Emmagan

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Hey! Don't feel sorry for me, I bought a choc ice from the spoils of one grushie...a whole choc ice! They were big money in those days *rocks in rocking chair remembering when this was all fields*

Fair enough. A choc ice of one's own is not to be sneered at.

I have still never heard of this scrabbling in the pebbles for coppers gig though.

spurious

Grushie is (according to the experts) probably from a Scots Gaelic word meaning thriving or healthy, which would fit in with the idea of being flaithiúl (generous) after a wedding. It's certainly a Scottish tradition, whether it went there from here and came back, or came here from there, who knows?

mongdesade

stovelid wrote: »

It was only popular amongst the horrid, common children.

Northside, inner city Dub & proud !

stovelid

mongdesade wrote: »

Northside, inner city Dub & proud !

Proud of being from the Northside?




:pac: (Tallaght)