Words that you rarely hear any more...

Judgement Day

And I don't mean please and thank you!

I don't why it suddenly popped into my head - advancing senility probably - but a word my Grandfather (born 1881) used to use when describing things that he had heard politicians saying - blatherskite. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-bla1.htm He died in 1970 and I certainly haven't heard anybody else use it since. Anybody else got any weird ones?

krudler

A donnybrook, to describe a fight, fcuking great word

IrishAm

Guttersnipe.

lorebringer

"pinny" for an apron - heard someone say it the other day that was not over the age of 80!

jos28

Had a discussion about this last week when we realised that nobody says diddies or gic anymore

Judgement Day

krudler wrote: »

A donnybrook, to describe a fight, fcuking great word

How old are you?

ruskey!

AAhhh that brings me back - to the 1960's -
havent heard blatherskite for years - and while i'm at it - how about someone being described as a "neuck" - a buachaill dána too cute for his own good, devious, sly.......

Sir Gallagher

Guttersnipe, i'm going to try and bring that one back.

Come here you ya little guttersnipe, i'll box the ears off ya.

dodderangler

Couldn't give a fiddlers fart
Never hear that anymore

bowsie010

pissmire

DrumSteve

No.

The Radiator

Recession

Kurz

Scutter

krudler

Judgement Day wrote: »

How old are you?

well I remember the day Johnny "The Tower" MacGavin went 200 rounds with a young Albert "Slobberknocker" O'Donnell, what a day that was, all of us riled up on gobstoppers and giving each other jip, what ho!

The King of Moo

"information superhighway"

"the web"

Bullrush

Rubber dollies - runners
Jagging - going out with someone
Bazzer - haircut

xzanti

Mega

To describe something that is/was great (not in relation to size/mass)

dodderangler

In a hoola hoop ( hungover or in bad way(

jos28

ruskey! wrote: »

AAhhh that brings me back - to the 1960's -

Remember the song - gic, gic, la, la, it's all down your leg gic gic,la la.......

mikemac1

catch a nígger by the toe

Ghost Buster

Fornication;)
Bohareen

Dub12Dave

Do you remember the last time you called someone a 'Goon'

suicide_circus

Gobble (eat fast)
Rounders (pre Celtic tiger field game)

strobe

Slanty... as in "dear god that lads awful slanty looking of late!"

Let's bring slanty back into the Irish lexicon!

mikemac1

parlor
scullery

The grandparents had these rooms, I bet your grandparents did too

Now I'd call them a living room and a utility room, probably American influence

The parlor was an important room and young whippersnappers weren't allowed in there
That was for important visitors

KeithM89_old

Caddywhompus

mikemac1

Christy Brown
Ah ya Christy, you're some retard
Hey Christy, yeah you

Early nineties when the film came out

Urquell

Thank You

Run_to_da_hills

What the Dickens

Cassette tape

Tape recorder.

VCR

Remolds (Although this may comeback )

Extreme Unction

livinsane

Enough of your high falutin.

lazygal

Girdle
Courting
Doing a line

Pilotdude5

Accepting CV's

Mr Benevolent

Lighted.
Fustigation.

Biggins

superfragilisticexpialidocious

Ruralyoke

Not exactly archaic but "shall" has never really been popular in this country but these days it's almost extinct except in comedic poncy type proclamations.

Which is kind of a good thing in my book - never liked the little sh1tty b@stard of a word.

castletownman

mikemac1 wrote: »

parlor
scullery

The grandparents had these rooms, I bet your grandparents did too

Now I'd call them a living room and a utility room, probably American influence

The parlor was an important room and young whippersnappers weren't allowed in there
That was for important visitors

Adding to that vocabularly: the haggard.

Suppose it would be called a back yard now.

And a word you'd only really hear from an auld lad at a hurling match these days but was a threat back in the day: "skelp"
i.e "stop acting the eejit before I hit ya a skelp"

dodderangler

Never hear kids sayin let's play kick the can

Ruralyoke

dodderangler wrote: »

Never hear kids sayin let's play kick the can

Awww - that sounds really sad and nostalgic at the same time!

IrishAm

Ride me sideways was another one.

mikemac1

suicide_circus wrote: »

Rounders (pre Celtic tiger field game)

Have they stopped playing this in schools?

I used to love playing rounders in primary school.

johnmcdnl

codswallop

Schwiiing

wankstain

mikemac1

Get up the yard, the smell of bengy off ya!



<something> is da solid finehist
Not heard that in a long time

Ruralyoke

mikemac1 wrote: »

bengy

Right that's it - for the first time in this thread I haven't a clue??

Judgement Day

Never used the expression myself but oldies used to 'spend a penny' whereas my generation used to 'have a slash' both seemed to have died out.

mikemac1

Ruralyoke wrote: »

Right that's it - for the first time in this thread I haven't a clue??

Do you remember Glenroe?
Before that were was Bracken, a very young Gabriel Byrne was in it
Before Bracken there was The Riordans

'Get up the yard, there's a smell of Benjy off you!' came from that and became widely know, even decades later

Showing my age

yermanoffthetv

"Gurrier" describing a little scumbag

nick 56

I learnt that wellington boots were called cossacks, I got out of a car by the GPO and got whoo hard by some guttersnipes as in "look at your man in his cossacks" -- much joy and laughter.

Geezer (for a cat)

cuddly sack (a cul-de- sac)

I will in me bollix

Sky King

Maybe this is just a kilkenny thing but back in the 90's people used to say weapon as a means to describe something great. Then the cool kids shortened it to wep.

Interchangable with 'awesome' now I suppose. Feckin yanks.

The Radiator

Seventy

ruskey!

spend a penny - thats when it was affordable pre celtic tiger !!!!
we're talking euro now......... so you gotta spend in style !!