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By *evin86Man 1 week ago
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Haha haven't heard that saying in years, I remember in school your money, premier League cards or pogs would get knocked out of your hands and they'd shout grushey, then everyone in the school thinks they can claim your stuff off the ground. Definitely a Dublin thing |
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Bog man is correct.
Gushy- wet female lady parts
Grushy- old dublin tradition of throwing coins or favours at a wedding
Gushy** - used by kids when something was thrown and dropped and it was a scramble to get as many as possible as a crowd. Most likely a mispronounced grushy picked up as Gushy by kids.
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By *rRios OP Man 1 week ago
dublin |
It was always a gushy where I was. Predominantly northside primary school, predominantly southside secondary school.
I always though grushy was an English thing but I’m obviously way wrong on that one 🙃 |
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Never heard those words before.i heard of something similar in cork city about throwing sweets in the air and saying 'up for the ba'. Also must be a very localised expression as i had never heard of it and grew up 15 miles from the city. Very interesting how expressions and traditions can be so localised. |
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"Grushy most definitely- Trouble
The northsiders must have called it Gushy
I was southside primary and Meath secondary school so not sure but always grushy - Trouble "
Now that right there is the issue... Southside and Meath! Us Northsiders called it correctly,Gushy!!  |
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Oh there’d be killings at the grushys,” says Noel Merton, a retiree from Cabra, now living in Donegal.
He chuckles at the other end of the phone line. “Everyone jumping on the money, kicking you out of the way.”
Merton remembers grushys well, an old tradition when members of a wedding party would throw coins out to kids.
“There was always a grushy in Cabra in the 50s. I would’ve been the age where you’d be tough enough to get into it, you know?” he says.
He even had one at his own wedding in Ringsend Church in 1967. With pennies, and ha’pennies, and threepenny bits.
“It was the done thing at the time, you had to do it,” he says. It’s been a long time, though, since Merton witnessed one.
It’s been a while since Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project has seen one too. Not since the 60s, he says.
As a kid, Fagan would gather with friends by the old tin church on Sean MacDermott Street and wait for the bride and groom to arrive, he says.
“Not to see the bride or the groom, mind, just to see the money coming out,” he says.
But that’s decades back. “Times moved on, Ireland was changing, and all these traditions started to die off,” says Fagan.
Taken from a newspaper article
It's definitely Grushy |
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"Oh there’d be killings at the grushys,” says Noel Merton, a retiree from Cabra, now living in Donegal.
He chuckles at the other end of the phone line. “Everyone jumping on the money, kicking you out of the way.”
Merton remembers grushys well, an old tradition when members of a wedding party would throw coins out to kids.
“There was always a grushy in Cabra in the 50s. I would’ve been the age where you’d be tough enough to get into it, you know?” he says.
He even had one at his own wedding in Ringsend Church in 1967. With pennies, and ha’pennies, and threepenny bits.
“It was the done thing at the time, you had to do it,” he says. It’s been a long time, though, since Merton witnessed one.
It’s been a while since Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project has seen one too. Not since the 60s, he says.
As a kid, Fagan would gather with friends by the old tin church on Sean MacDermott Street and wait for the bride and groom to arrive, he says.
“Not to see the bride or the groom, mind, just to see the money coming out,” he says.
But that’s decades back. “Times moved on, Ireland was changing, and all these traditions started to die off,” says Fagan.
Taken from a newspaper article
It's definitely Grushy "
Everyone knows you can't believe a thing you read in the papers!! And besides...who the hell is Noel Merton??
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I had never heard of it until the day I got married in Dublin, fadó fadó.
Googled it and found this interesting explainer.
https://dublininquirer.com/2020/09/02/whatever-happened-to-dublin-s-wedding-grushys/ |
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