AH's favourite imperial measurements.

golden lane

grillions

Smidge

A shavin' of cake ie when you only want a tiny piece

Mr.Biscuits

I like one of Tommy Tiernan's: a 'small child' full of beer.

Smidge

Just thought of another one


A shake of salt:D

grenache

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

and feel entitled to my "shoulder" of whiskey.

In Cork, rather bizarrely, they call it a "double naggin" - even though 350ml is clearly not double 200ml

Babybuff

a fcukload (lots)
or
fcuk all (none)

Professey Chin

A couric

Jesus Wept

Sam Vimes wrote: »

The hogshead

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

AskMyChocolate

"Two shakes of a lamb's tail" - The measurement of time it will take your father to turn this car around, and nobody will be going anywhere.

northernpower

a shhhlapp

like

'thats some shhhlapp of stuff ye have'

padd b1975

A fair bit of something.

Adyx

ArtSmart wrote: »

no, that's American for flagon or flask of whisky (no e)


In the fair sod, we removed the difficulty of the shoulder rest by using the aul Buidéal

A shoulder is a 350ml bottle of spirits. In Ireland, or at least in Waterford, a flagon refers to a 2L ottle (of cider).

Also, generally American whiskey does have an e.

Satts

mishkalucy wrote: »

A "clatter" of rain
Don't try to tell me that rain can be measured in any other way;)

Raining cats and dogs .

Satts

A pot full of toss.

adamski8

it has to be football field, the only measurement an american understands

Agricola

"Buttload" - a large load, of about 108 imperial gallons (491 liters). From the middle-english 'butt' (n), which is a large cask/container used for storing liquids, esp wine

"I drank a buttload last night and had to get my stomach pumped from the resulting alcohol poisoning"

44leto

I will comeup with one in a jiffy.

I like jammered.

Furlongs per fortnight.

The speed limit on this road is 80640 fpf (50kmh)

Omackeral

A whole hape.

This is a quantity I often hear my rural brethren* use. I think it's a vast amount.








*boggers

flanders1979

a smattering of tinkers

Jammy Donut

An arsload.

Any young people still use gallons and miles?

44leto

A shoal of horses

A herd of fish

A flock of frocks.

Omackeral

This thread just reminds me of this scene in Family Guy discussing odd units of measurement. A Drum of Grape Jam, a desk of Cheezits...:p

AskMyChocolate

Have we any physicists/historians out there? I've always wanted to know whether a "Feed of dhrink" is more than a "rake of pints", anyone any idea?

Obviously, "a few", is the most amount of alcohol that anyone can imbibe, but, I'd be interested to know what are the second,third, and fourth highest amounts on this table of shame.

Choco

holystungun9

Can't remember exactly what the context was, but my friends dad once referred to a 'kuntfull' of something.

luckyfrank

holystungun9 wrote: »

Can't remember exactly what the context was, but my friends dad once referred to a 'kuntfull' of something.

the utd team ?

ardinn

While we're on the subject - what the hell is a hundred weight?

Alun

ardinn wrote: »

While we're on the subject - what the hell is a hundred weight?

112 pounds, or 8 stone, or 4 quarters. 20 hundredweight is 1 ton.

demanufactured

My grandfather had a great one....
When describing the days getting longer in summer he would say that the sun is out longer today "By a cockerels step on a dung-heap"

pickarooney

'cubit' sounds like 'arsecock' in French so obviously that one is a fave with me.

Korvanica

A small child full of beer.

K-9

IM0 wrote: »

I just got a 'load' of stuff in the shops

Just got a few "bits and pieces" myself.

cml387

Also from the Meaning of Liff:

BLEAN (n.)
Scientific measure of luminosity : 1 glimmer = 100,000 bleans. Usherettes' torches are designed to produce between 2.5 and 4 bleans, enabling them to assist you in falling downstairs, treading on people or putting your hand into a Neapolitan tub when reaching for change.

44leto

A mate of mine got into cycling one year. All my mates were in my gaff and the bell rang, my mother answered the door and all we heard was her saying **** you look absolutely ridicules.

And in he walked, at that time the only people who wore Lycra were the professional cyclists and there he was head to toe in it, now to be charitable he was an obese fat cnut and his top was to small for him, so his fat flesh hung over his Lycra bottoms which showed his bulge to the world.

We never laughed so much, I had pains in the back of my head from the convulsions, then he said is anyone coming to the the shoppo, we are in our bollox and off he went on his own.

He I tell you was a man who never gave a bollox.

im invisible

An eighth, or maybe even a quarter, seldom a half.