Words no longer used.....

mikemac2

Do people still say delph?

As I understand that was a brand of plates and cups and stuff. It was blue and white with images of gardens and other stuff I think? Sure every home had them

And then everything in the range became delph even it was a completely different brand

A quick google tells me it's spelled as delft! Something I learned today

cheekypup

Gaylord, popular insult amongst primary school lads of the 80's

Badly Drunk Boy

mikemac2 wrote: »

Do people still say delph?

As I understand that was a brand of plates and cups and stuff. It was blue and white with images of gardens and other stuff I think? Sure every home had them

And then everything in the range became delph even it was a completely different brand

A quick google tells me it's spelled as delft! Something I learned today

I always spelt it 'delph', named from the Dutch place it came from, Delft.

From Diarmaid Ó Muirithe in the Irish Times:

DELF, sometimes spelled delph, is a word extensively used in Ireland for earthenware and crockery. I have seen it written that this word is confined to Ireland, but this is not so. Its origin is the Dutch town of Delf, now called Delft, famous for its tableware since the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the excisemen were worried about `certain Goodes called DelphWare and Counterfeit China coming from Holland'.

Delf (the t was added to the town's name in Middle Dutch for no good reason) was named from the delf, ditch, by which the chief canal of the town is still known. Middle English has delf for ditch, from late Old English daelf trench, ditch, quarry, apparently from gedelf, digging, a digging, a ditch, from delfan, to delve or dig.

Delf, crockery, is very common still in Scotland and in England's North Country to Yorkshire. As far as I know Swift was the first Irishman to use the word in print. In his Poems to Stella at Woodpark, written in 1723, he has `A supper worthy of herself,/ Five nothings in five plates of delf.' Mary Phelan from Kilkenny wrote to ask about the word.

gogo

Brian? wrote: »

My parents used supper for the late night snack after dinner.

Most people I grew up with called that tea

This is what we had, lunch at lunch, dinner at 5.30/6pm and supper was toast or similar around 8pm ..

Now it’s so common to sit watching tele eating a pile of crap, supper back when we were kids was to tide you over until morning, because you weren’t getting anything else after it

odyssey06

Don't hear so much use of 'Backstop' anymore, but I wonder if people will start using it subconsciously instead of 'fallback' \ 'Plan B'.
It's now all about the 'Protocol'.
Which I never heard used all that frequently except in the name of the 80s cold war movies The Fourth Protocol & in technical uses.

Badly Drunk Boy

odyssey06 wrote: »

Don't hear so much use of 'Backstop' anymore...

We have backstop ball bearings in work. Most bearings can rotate either way but with backstop bearings, they only move one way, preventing an unwanted backward movement. So there!

scotchy

Is "Nixer" still used? and is it an Irish only expression. I don't think I've heard it anywhere else,

Plain, used to describe a less than attractive female

odyssey06

scotchy wrote: »

Is "Nixer" still used? and is it an Irish only expression. I don't think I've heard it anywhere else,

<begin official statement>
I've never heard of this word and I certainly wouldn't engage in such practices.
<end official statement>

bluezulu49

Criterion. No one now seems to know the singular of criteria.

The Continental Op

bluezulu49 wrote: »

Criterion. No one now seems to know the singular of criteria.

Thought he was a high up member of our insect overlords

Kewreeuss

Does anyone say “let’s go for a jaunt” anymore.
Our Dad used bring us out for a drive on a Sunday afternoon, the only day he wasn’t working, and he always called it a jaunt.

Badly Drunk Boy

Phthisis. And yes, it's pronounced as you'd expect.

Looking into our family history at death certificates, my brother found this as the reason for death a bit too often. It's another term for tuberculosis.

1874

Truth,
Justice,
Responsibility.

riclad

Supper is just another word for dinner usually it's made after 6pm in the evening when people were home from school or work
I have never heard any Irish person say tea to mean dinner.

riclad

Nixer means a job done for cash off the books no tax paid on it. Eg tile a kitchen, install a new cooker

Ash.J.Williams

words i use but are almost dead!

blaggard
galavanting

dxhound2005

The standard form is Blackguard, but that would not be a common word either.

https://wordwatchtowers.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/blaggards-blaggers-and-blackguards/

Ash.J.Williams

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The standard form is Blackguard, but that would not be a common word either.

https://wordwatchtowers.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/blaggards-blaggers-and-blackguards/

Great word though for a gouger

Ash.J.Williams

Susie dents Twitter is a mine of wonderful obsolete words , I’ll dig out a few but one that springs to mind is “fart catcher “


Basically a lick arse , a worker so close to the boss he can catch his fart

dxhound2005

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Susie dents Twitter is a mine of wonderful obsolete words , I’ll dig out a few but one that springs to mind is “fart catcher “


Basically a lick arse , a worker so close to the boss he can catch his fart

She did an interesting thing on Countdown about "unwritten rules" in English. Why is it Little Red Shoes instead of Red Little Shoes? The unwritten rule is Size before Colour, and there are loads more.

Ash.J.Williams

dxhound2005 wrote: »

She did an interesting thing on Countdown about "unwritten rules" in English. Why is it Little Red Shoes instead of Red Little Shoes? The unwritten rule is Size before Colour, and there are loads more.

just looking at her twitter now, perfect for ireland!

Flenched: weather that looks like it's going to improve , but doesn't !!

whisky_galore

bluezulu49 wrote: »

Criterion.

Sounds like the name of a down at heel Australian boozer.

The Continental Op

whisky_galore wrote: »

Sounds like the name of a down at heel Australian boozer.

It really is a UK theatre https://www.criterion-theatre.co.uk/

whisky_galore

The Continental Op wrote: »

It really is a UK theatre https://www.criterion-theatre.co.uk/

Lots of things called Criterion in aus, nz, Canada, US and uk.
Bars, Hotels, cinemas etc. Never caught on here.