Words that you rarely hear any more...

beaver111

gutties

Palytoxin

"Coniption", can't be bothered checking if someone posted it already, I'd have a coniption if I had to do that

Rocket19

My Dad has used the expression "to rear up cat":D...think it means something along the lines of "causing trouble"?

My sister and I were baffled, but he didn't seem to think it was an unusual phrase! Still not sure if it's just made up.

humbert

Palytoxin wrote: »

"Coniption", can't be bothered checking if someone posted it already, I'd have a coniption if I had to do that

If I suggested another 'n' would you have a conniption?

Palytoxin

humbert wrote: »

If I suggested another 'n' would you have a conniption?

Say what you like, I'll probably have a conniption either way, great word though! :pac:

deandean

Oh, bugger.

ToddyDoody

No one says ditto as in "I think i love you"... "ditto". Its one of the few great annoying and impersonal words that should be resurrected.

uch

Malojeon, as in that song was malojeon

Sea Filly

Blackguard. Pronounced 'blagard' for all you young 'uns/non-culchies out there.

krudler wrote: »

A donnybrook, to describe a fight, fcuking great word

Isn't that an Australian word? It comes from Donnybrook in Ireland but I thought it was just used in Oz.

mikemac1

The delph
It's the good stuff, the kind you use for Christmas dinner when there are lots coming around

Haven't heard delph in a long while

swoody

Rasa

Wibbs

uch wrote: »

Malojeon, as in that song was malojeon

Is it not malojend with a D at the end U? Though in the old song line "skinny malink malogean legs, umbrella feet" etc there's no D. Good one though. Still use it myself.

Blackguard. Pronounced 'blagard' for all you young 'uns/non-culchies out there.

Ah here, that's a Jackeen word. Feckin culchies nicking our shít.

I haven't heard "I'm only codding" in place of "I'm only joking" for a good while. Haven't heard "Sleeveen" for a sneaky person too often recently either and haven't heard "he's a real go by the wall and tiddle the bricks" to describe same in a very very long time. Decco for having a look at something another rare enough on. He or she "is on gur" meaning they're economising/poor. From gur cake a cheap cake I gather.

wendell borton

Fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post-haste!

-Mr.Burns

mongdesade

steamengine wrote: »

Another Dublin word - Scuttin' - an unauthorised lift on the back of a bread van or other vehicle.

Veolia are running a series of safety posters on the red line at the moment saying 'Tram scutting is dangerous'

mongdesade

The Sparrow wrote: »

Very few ppl threaten to Burst their enemies these days.

I use it quite frequently

mongdesade

uch wrote: »

Malojeon, as in that song was malojeon

Derivative... 'Dat was cat malojeon !'

abouttobebanned

Ye daw!

Archeron

Jammer, as in a stolen car.

funnilenough

creamer/cream cracker; traveller
skullduggery ;to like it up the swiss
up the swiss ;up your anus
touch on ;to **** off

Thoie

That fella'd mind mice at the crossroads.

little swift

He or she "is on gur" meaning they're economising/poor. From gur cake a cheap cake I gather.

on gur, means sleeping rough , gur cake is also another name for fruit cake lovely with a bottle of milk

Will I Amnt

Wibbs wrote: »

uch wrote: »

Malojeon, as in that song was malojeon

Is it not malojend with a D at the end U? Though in the old song line "skinny malink malogean legs, umbrella feet" etc there's no D

Whaaaat!!!
Isn't it "big banana feet"???

Palytoxin

mongdesade wrote: »

Derivative... 'Dat was cat malojeon !'

The rhyme goes "cat's malachy and goat's malogen, put them together and you've a mighty explosion."
(Malachy=Malogen=Excrement) :pac:

BigCon

I'll brain ya
The smell of campfire off ya
Get out of that garden
Sick as a small hospital (when hungover)
There wasn't what would ring a sow at it (when describing a small crowd)
Up me arse picking dasies and getting browned off
The curse a fu_ck on it
Fu_ck this for a game of soldiers
Look at the cut of ya
He's blind in one eye and can't see in the other
He's as slow as a funeral
Nearly never bulled the cow
He'd drink Lough Eireann dry
If there was work in the bed he'd sleep on the floor
He's too lazy to scratch himself
Whelp
Skelp
Scutterpullet
Chancer
Nancy boy
As dry as a November ass sh1te (talking about a boring person)
As cute as a christian
As sure as there's a tail in a cat
As God is my witness
The Theshing
As weak as ferret's milk
Hobnail boots
A cut of bread (a slice)
The place was black (a large crowd)

mikemac1

I'm broke, can I get a land of a score?
Heading out tonight, just have a score to spend


Not heard score in years
It was 20 punts, is it 20 euro now?

Will I Amnt

mikemac1 wrote: »

I'm broke, can I get a land of a score?
Heading out tonight, just have a score to spend


Not heard score in years
It was 20 punts, is it 20 euro now?

No.It's a small bag of heroin.

Sobanek

Ergo, Vis a Vis, Concordantly, Apropos

FishBowel

Golliwog.

Davidson2k9

"Yes, I will sleep with you"

mikemac1

cambo2008 wrote: »

No.It's a small bag of heroin.

Maybe for the Dubs it is

A score was £20 everywhere else

Will I Amnt

mikemac1 wrote: »

Maybe for the Dubs it is

A score was money everywhere else

Ah the Dubs, drugs, drugs, drugs

Sorry I can't read that.I'm tripping off my tits here. :rolleyes:

Nice ninja edit btw.

steamengine

Wireless

admiralofthefleet

property and tax

mikemac1

weekend shopping trip to New York

Was all the rage not long ago

steamengine

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

property and tax

Post the referendum, you'll be hearing all about it again

DubCul

The Celtic Tiger (RIP)
Voting Machines
Honest Politicians
Friendly Bank Manager
Council Services
Bertie Ahern
Ban Gharda

Nippledragon

"he's like a goose's sh1te" - tall, thin man

"he's like the thick end of a dogs sh1te" - he thinks hes always right

"ill playstation ya" / "ill give ya playstation" - threat to get off the playstation and do your chores

"hauld on till i get the wodden spoon (or a sally rod)" - your going to get a hiding

"ill redden your arshe ya, ya, ya little skitther ya"

"dont (slap) do (slap) that (slap) again (slap), ya little sh1tehawk ya" - being told during a hiding

Whippersnapper

Flibbertigibbet - someone who is flighty or unreliable. My late gran used to use this and "rapscallion" a lot.

Lon.C

"Nifty" - meaning cool. It was a real word your ma would use to be down with the kids.
"I'm not wearing them"
"What do you mean you not wearing them lovely brown corduroy trousers, sure they're nifty. Now g'wan out and play".

mikemac1

Woodbines
Your grandparents called all cigarettes woodbines.


Now that I think of it pipe smoking seems be extinct!
I don't know anyone who smokes a pipe anymore

Biggins

Big Ears (...as in Noddy character).

BBDBB

no idea if my dad made these up or how they are spelled but I remember them from my childhood

sooner - a mongrel dog, cos he'd sooner p*ss up the curtains than go outside
a possounder - often I was described as a lazy possounder
yobathorn - kid hanging around street corner acting the yob

token101

Cat. As in, the sheets in that lasagna were hard. Ah it was ****ing cat.

Fluorescence

Ah here now, "shall" is a totally normal word. Whoever says it's outdated is wrong. Wrong I tell ye! I'm only a young'un and I use it all the time; you shan't stop me :P

Truley wrote: »

Phrases like 'Mother O' God' 'Jesus Mary and Joseph' 'Please God' 'God Almighty' etc will probably die out from my mother's generation downwards. Younger people don't talk like that.

My granny still says stuff like this. It's really funny the way she pronounces it with her Cork accent too. A while back I had bright bright orange hair. My granny, on seeing it for the first time, exclaims, "Oh holy sweet Mother of Divine God!!" :pac:

Lon.C wrote: »

"Nifty" - meaning cool. It was a real word your ma would use to be down with the kids.
"I'm not wearing them"
"What do you mean you not wearing them lovely brown corduroy trousers, sure they're nifty. Now g'wan out and play".

Nifty and spiffy! Excellent, deeply uncool "cool" words. I love them.

old_aussie

Full employment

Bonza

Pace2008

It's been a power of years since I've heard the term "rapid" used to describe something good.

Fluorescence

Pace2008 wrote: »

It's been a power of years since I've heard the term "rapid" used to describe something good.

Still popular round these parts!

celticcrash

nogan=head
The state of the nogin on him.
The size of the nogin on him.

donkeydc

Fianna Fail, they just up'ed and vanished like a fart in the wind. :rolleyes:

al28283

Haven't hear the word yonks in... eh.... ages