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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
I'm old enough to remember the 80's
..and a little of the 70's too 
Anyway, there were a few slang words that were
bandied about that are probably not used today
so wondering what slang words or phrases
did you hear growing up
and what was the meaning behind the slang?
Just a bit of fun here guys   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A word I haven't heard I'm decades is "mot", wonder is it still in use?
It’s been changed to ‘bird’ haha
That's what I thought lol"
Yeah well In Dublin anyway that’s all I hear haha |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"A sentence I haven't heard used in ages is "Hows your gee"
When we were cool 12 and 13 yr olds we used to say it to every girl that walked past use "
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"...Or how's it growing?" 
(teen alternative to "how's it going?")
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"A sentence I haven't heard used in ages is "Hows your gee"
When we were cool 12 and 13 yr olds we used to say it to every girl that walked past use "
and fanny  those two words actually make me cringe now. And to an ever so slightly less degree.... minge  |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
I still remember going with a girl from cork and getting a bus down from dublin to stay in her house.
Her ma asked me to help with the wear after the dinner and i didnt know what to do.
When i explained what it meant in Dublin...red faces all round |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"wearin the face off her" 
This was when a young gentleman decided to kiss
a young lady
Also known as "the shift"
(not to be confused with work)
...and best time to do that was during
"The slow set" !! |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
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"wearin the face off her"
This was when a young gentleman decided to kiss
a young lady
Also known as "the shift"
(not to be confused with work)
...and best time to do that was during
"The slow set" !!"
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Known in some areas (outside Foxrock) as
"Lob the gob" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Is "tackies" only a limerick word?
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What does it mean??? "
Tackies are runners/trainers and still used today. Think it's just a limerick thing but the rubber bandits spread it about a bit. |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"
Is "tackies" only a limerick word?
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What does it mean???
Tackies are runners/trainers and still used today. Think it's just a limerick thing but the rubber bandits spread it about a bit. "
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We used to have "fleckies"
but those were lads who wore shiny tracksuits
and WHITE socks back in the 90's
...which was a no-no if you wanted to get into
certain nightclubs in Dublin...
Ahhh fun times!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"
Is "tackies" only a limerick word?
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What does it mean???
Tackies are runners/trainers and still used today. Think it's just a limerick thing but the rubber bandits spread it about a bit.
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We used to have "fleckies"
but those were lads who wore shiny tracksuits
and WHITE socks back in the 90's
...which was a no-no if you wanted to get into
certain nightclubs in Dublin...
Ahhh fun times!!!! "
Ah yes the Fleckies! |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"
Is "tackies" only a limerick word?
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What does it mean???
Tackies are runners/trainers and still used today. Think it's just a limerick thing but the rubber bandits spread it about a bit.
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We used to have "fleckies"
but those were lads who wore shiny tracksuits
and WHITE socks back in the 90's
...which was a no-no if you wanted to get into
certain nightclubs in Dublin...
Ahhh fun times!!!!
Ah yes the Fleckies! "
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Then again,
We went to school around the same area! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"
Is "tackies" only a limerick word?
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What does it mean???
Tackies are runners/trainers and still used today. Think it's just a limerick thing but the rubber bandits spread it about a bit. "
Tackies is a word I've used since I was a kid..
Long before the rubber bandits  |
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""Cog notes"
"Gobdaw/ Godsh1te"
Someone who does something stupid
and gets found out as in...
" Yer man was caught with "cog notes" (cheat notes)
in his exam. Gobsh1te!" "
There was a quare gobshite beside me at school, he cogged an exam off me, so much word for word, that he put my name on the top of his paper an ojis gombeen |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
""Cog notes"
"Gobdaw/ Godsh1te"
Someone who does something stupid
and gets found out as in...
" Yer man was caught with "cog notes" (cheat notes)
in his exam. Gobsh1te!"
There was a quare gobshite beside me at school, he cogged an exam off me, so much word for word, that he put my name on the top of his paper an ojis gombeen "
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Or lad in my class who "handed up his cog notes"
inside the english exam he'd written
..."Fooking morto for you, you tool ya!"
We're were such empathetic kids back then  |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"In the early eighties we used to say ,do you want to smell my girlfriend, while holding up our middle finger not heard that for years
We did that but said “ smell yer ma”.....
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Or "Here, smell your sister" |
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"In the early eighties we used to say ,do you want to smell my girlfriend, while holding up our middle finger not heard that for years
We did that but said “ smell yer ma”.....
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Or "Here, smell your sister" "
She told me you couldnt find her pussy and fingered her asshole, ya fuckin shitty finger wanker. |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"In the early eighties we used to say ,do you want to smell my girlfriend, while holding up our middle finger not heard that for years
We did that but said “ smell yer ma”.....
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Or "Here, smell your sister"
She told me you couldnt find her pussy and fingered her asshole, ya fuckin shitty finger wanker."
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Bit long winded mate, prefer my version  |
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"In the early eighties we used to say ,do you want to smell my girlfriend, while holding up our middle finger not heard that for years
We did that but said “ smell yer ma”.....
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Or "Here, smell your sister"
She told me you couldnt find her pussy and fingered her asshole, ya fuckin shitty finger wanker.
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Bit long winded mate, prefer my version "
Thats cause you like the smell of your shitty finger. |
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By *oserMan
over a year ago
where the wild roses grow |
On the hop - unofficial time off school
Leggit - run away
Keep sketch - keep look out while someone did something emm dodgy.
Ya fat cunt - alternative to a term of endearment for just about everyone at some stage  |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"In the early eighties we used to say ,do you want to smell my girlfriend, while holding up our middle finger not heard that for years
We did that but said “ smell yer ma”.....
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Or "Here, smell your sister"
She told me you couldnt find her pussy and fingered her asshole, ya fuckin shitty finger wanker.
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Bit long winded mate, prefer my version
Thats cause you like the smell of your shitty finger."
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Nice try at pulling me into a beef...
but unfortunately not good enough 
You're a class act all the way
Anyway, enjoy your evening with your own
thumb and middle finger
Tim |
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By *P_80Man
over a year ago
Waterford |
Back in the day old people used to refer to scumbags as "A dirty rotten article", or a "Tipper". Tipper could also mean a misbehaving child.
In school we used the word 'dude'. We'd ask someone were they a dude? If they said yes we would inform them that a dude is an ingrown wart on a camels bollocks.
Don't ask me how that came about. |
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By *oserMan
over a year ago
where the wild roses grow |
"On the hop - unofficial time off school
Leggit - run away
Keep sketch - keep look out while someone did something emm dodgy.
Ya fat cunt - alternative to a term of endearment for just about everyone at some stage "
Getting a skut - the crazy game of hanging onto the back of a bus or truck at a traffic light and holding on for your life as it drove up the road |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"In the 70s and 80s in Scotland playing truant of school was called dogging it, don't think they call it that now lol"
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We used to call that "mitching" or "on the hop"
...but could you imagine if they revived "dogging it"
Oh Lordy!!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"
Is "tackies" only a limerick word?
---------------
What does it mean???
Tackies are runners/trainers and still used today. Think it's just a limerick thing but the rubber bandits spread it about a bit.
Tackies is a word I've used since I was a kid..
Long before the rubber bandits "
I always did love swinging the tackie at the discos. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Skaming ..as in " skaming school " ..you were ment to go to school but " skamed it "...
" Yonks "..a time discription,as in "l haven't heard that in yonks "
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"In the early eighties we used to say ,do you want to smell my girlfriend, while holding up our middle finger not heard that for years
We did that but said “ smell yer ma”.....
--------------
Or "Here, smell your sister"
She told me you couldnt find her pussy and fingered her asshole, ya fuckin shitty finger wanker.
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Bit long winded mate, prefer my version
Thats cause you like the smell of your shitty finger.
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Nice try at pulling me into a beef...
but unfortunately not good enough
You're a class act all the way
Anyway, enjoy your evening with your own
thumb and middle finger
Tim"
Pull you into a beef?
I don't know if that's old sang or you're actually being serious now. Never heard a home in Dublin ask me to pull them into a beef. |
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"Skaming ..as in " skaming school " ..you were ment to go to school but " skamed it "...
" Yonks "..a time discription,as in "l haven't heard that in yonks "
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On the doss.
On the suss, was walking around looking for stuff to do. In the city would usually end up being illegal. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I was a child and my mum found out I’d misbehaved she’d say..... “you’ll be laughing on the other side of your face if you don’t stop that!”....... still to this day I’ve never worked that one out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh I only found out the other year that "Give out" is an irish thing, do people still say it?
like "Me ma was giving out to me for hitting my brother"
Yeah still used. I'm always givin out. "
Or the " ball of jaw "..." I got a ball of Jaw ..got a lecture or a dressing down ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A word I haven't heard I'm decades is "mot", wonder is it still in use? "
It was actually “moth” A derogatory male term for your Missus. As in “the moth that eats the holes in your pockets” |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"A word I haven't heard I'm decades is "mot", wonder is it still in use?
It was actually “moth” A derogatory male term for your Missus. As in “the moth that eats the holes in your pockets”"
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...used to get asked
"Are you mothing?"
(i.e "Do you have a special lady in your life?")
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Are you paying your multi......listening to the conversation next to you and another one was when someone in cork said 'yeh' it was how it was said had a lot of meanings |
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By *easingTim OP Man
over a year ago
Loughlinstown |
"Wick- as in , this film is shit
Diddies- tits
Foundered- as in cold enough for nose jewelry (snats freezing as they drip)"
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Old joke where two Dublin prostitues are chatting...
"Natasha, have you ever been caught by the fuzz (A.G.S)?"
"No Natalie, but I've been swung around by the diddies!!"
...Grooming standards were different then! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The white knee high school socks were steamers..hated them
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A "steamer" meant a gay guy
when I was in secondary school..."
different ends of the country I guess..chaws were first year boys |
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