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hillaberries
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 Posted - 22/02/2010 : 19:51:36
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On cold winters evenings we use to out and slide on the icy road close to goldens shop, on a little incline.Some slid down the hill standing up and others went down on their Hunkers if that is spelt right?
Another word was Huckster ie he is a huckster or thats a huckster shop
Moocher was another one
Another word was heres some money get yourself a wafer ie ice-cream there was 2p wafer 4p wafer and boy a 6p wafer was something
Another word i use to hear was buckshee which i believe is an army expression
And get the young fella a Mineral
Im sure there are lots more that people still use or remember
such words
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Jimbo
Ireland
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Posted - 22/02/2010 : 20:31:16
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Yea, I love those old words now long out of use. Huckster Shop was one I'd never heard till I came to live in Mullingar in the '70s.
Moocher as far as I know, came from one of those old Comics, the Dandy, Beano, Popeye etc.
Buckshee is a very old British Army slang word, from the Arabic word Backsheesh, meaning spare, left over, unwanted, surplus to requirements, etc.
As I'm originally from Co. Limerick I found some of the old Westmeath words interesting, hilarious even.
Words like Cashapooka' (mushrooms) Sham, (?) Russian Boots (Wellingtons) to name but a few.
I remember those Wafer ice creams, two'penny, thru'penny and the huge sixpenny!
As a small boy I once worked all day twisting hay-ropes in a local Farmers' meadow.
Toward evening he told me he'd "leave a ha'penny ice-cream in the local Garage" for me! (Mean old git)
The Garage, I found out too late, didn't sell ice-cream!
Ahh, the innocence of it!
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Admin
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Posted - 22/02/2010 : 21:56:04
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| Conkers, taws, marla are some that come to mind. |
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doojeen
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Mark Anthony
Ireland
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 01:39:14
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| Admin ! Was it not called morla ( plastaseen). Glassies. Thaws. Marbels. and the smallest called Mibs. Sledgers. (bottel caps) hammered flat or used as a badge. Gob Stoppers. Fizzy bags. Lucky bags. So long ago but nice to remember. Slan Tamal |
Edited by - Mark Anthony on 04/03/2010 14:29:27 |
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fly
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 09:50:22
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Originally posted by Jimbo
Buckshee is a very old British Army slang word, from the Arabic word Backsheesh, meaning spare, left over, unwanted, surplus to requirements, etc.
The context I heard Buckshee "Its a Buckshee job" meaning second rate poor workmanship, (Arseways, woejous) |
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doojeen
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 10:04:48
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 "Bullwoejous" is another interesting variant! |
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hillaberries
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 10:27:00
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| The Curse of the blight on you and another one was Bad cess to you ? so feel free to correct spelling ,but as you can see even in our short time living sounds and spellings of words seem to change so quickly, over the years its easy for words and sayings to change like The message sent in the ww1 ,The message was "Send reinforcwments were going to advance " but again it reached headquarters afer passing through many operators it read "Send three and fourpence were going to a dance" |
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doojeen
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 10:29:48
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 I heard that one from the late Tom Shine NT, RIP. |
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Jimbo
Ireland
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 11:24:43
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Some of the ones I grew up with :
Kippings; small sticks to light the fire
Ciarawns; bits of broken turf for the same purpose
Kifflin' ; Acting the maggot
Gruggin' down; Sitting on your heels
Moneyballs; Red sweets,inside which could be a coin, or more often, not!
Ire; That sore red rash one got from wearing short courdroy trousers as a boy! Ouch!
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centurion
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 11:40:02
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'He's a right Go Be The Wall!'
Nancy's Balls..............Aniseed Balls
'Get up the cut.........'
On a completely foreign topic.... has anyone seen a chilblain lately? |
'You talkin' to me?' |
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Mark Anthony
Ireland
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 13:56:35
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| "Get up the yard there's a smell of benzi off yah " and "Say nothing till you hear more" Anyone remember an Ice Cream waffer been called a "Slider" ie tuppenny slider ? |
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hillaberries
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 15:15:23
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Believe it or not Doojeen i also heard it from Tom Shine god bless him it was a pleasure to be taught by him his favourite was "Last Place i pointed To"
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Originally posted by doojeen
I heard that one from the late Tom Shine NT, RIP.
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hillaberries
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 15:18:36
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Chilblains i believe are like limbo and purgatory they is no money to be made out of them
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Originally posted by centurion
'He's a right Go Be The Wall!'
Nancy's Balls..............Aniseed Balls
'Get up the cut.........'
On a completely foreign topic.... has anyone seen a chilblain lately?
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hillaberries
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 15:24:02
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| On a friday myself and my brothers were given a penny each for the black babies, im sorry to say the pennies never got further then kilroys sweet shop in the batteries where we would buy one of the loveliest chews of all 2 squares of Slab Toffee lovely stuff |
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doojeen
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Posted - 23/02/2010 : 23:49:12
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Originally posted by hillaberries
Believe it or not Doojeen, I also heard it from Tom Shine
I believe it! It was one if the topics in a seminar by Tom on the importance of clarity in written and particularly verbal communication.  |
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Unusual words and Sayings
