Archaic phrases

[gatsbygirl20]

How about a "small player" meaning 10 cigarettes
Or a "baby power"......Power whiskey.
Having a "pump".....urinating.
"You could hoosh a goose up it" A very derogitary description of a young lady who was something less than a virgin
"Clatty" round here was "clotty"
"Usefull" ......."She was fairly usefull in her day".

Ah, how well I remember the "small player" for 10 Players cigs. Old men would stop me when I was a kid, on my way to the shops, give me money to get them "a small Player". I was an imaginative child, but too timid and shy to ask what it was. I imagined a little dwarf with a drum or tambourine!


I remember men at the bar asking for "a half one" (whiskey)
"A small stout" (glass of Guinness)

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER "HE'S A VERY FRESH MAN" ? ! What in God's name did it mean? A man in the prime of life, a healthy looking man, perhaps. A "fresh Man"---better than a frozen one, I suppose.

[Baron von Biffo]

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER "HE'S A VERY FRESH MAN" ? ! What in God's name did it mean? A man in the prime of life, a healthy looking man, perhaps. A "fresh Man"---better than a frozen one, I suppose.

A fresh man or woman would have been (and still is for some) someone who looks younger than their years. "God she's a very fresh 73. I wouldn't have put her a day over 60."

[cry freedom]

Tom Riordan used to say: "That's a grand cake Nora"
And: "You can't beat your own eggs and butter"
Remember ? Do you remember?

[Baron von Biffo]

Tom Riordan used to say: "That's a grand cake Nora"
And: "You can't beat your own eggs and butter"
Remember ? Do you remember?

"You can't beat your own milk and eggs." And he wasn't officially Tom Riordan when he said it because it was an ad for Gateaux cakes. (If it was the Riordans he'd have complimented Mary.)

[cry freedom]

My mother used to shout : "Be quiet, you can be heard in Elphin"
Why Elphin I don't know. We lived about forty miles from the place.

[cry freedom]

"You can't beat your own milk and eggs." And he wasn't officially Tom Riordan when he said it because it was an ad for Gateaux cakes. (If it was the Riordans he'd have complimented Mary.)

How very schoolmasterish of you. You supercilious prat.

[cry freedom]

Round here "Fierce" was used very much out of context.
"A Fierce nice fellow" or a "Fierce warm day"

[No doubt Biffo will find something to correct in this too !]

[teapot]

I wonder if posters would be interested in posting words and expressions that were once common but have fallen into disuse



[SIZE="5"][COLOR="Red"]eg :The Fuzz.[/COLOR][/SIZE]





Old dublin word for the cops.
Eg.I got grabbed by the fuzz.

It also meant pubic hair so many double entendres occurred

Beg to differ 'The Fuzz' is merely a corruption phonetically of 'The Force' ie the Police Force... Being grabbed by the pubic hair is usually 'being grabbed by the short and curlies...'

[teapot]

A fresh man or woman would have been (and still is for some) someone who looks younger than their years. "God she's a very fresh 73. I wouldn't have put her a day over 60."

Baron, when I was a kid, people used to refer to 'a fresh complexion' so it looks as if this came from fresh as in milk, cream, fish, etc. ie fresh... not worn out, not aged, not gone bad.

[teapot]

I was told once that the word mott came from "maith an cailín ", and that hoor was from the old "whoreson knave".

'HOOR' as in Cute Hoor ( a very Irish expression) is from WHORE (a prostitute). The word is pronounced differently in different parts of the world. In UK generally - HORE or EWER- in NAmerica, esp Canada - HOOR or maybe HORE (As we sailed up to LABRADOR, we took on board a floating WHORE, We f()cked her forty times or MORE; In the North Atlantic Squadron) so it can be changed to suit the rhyme... This pronunciation may be due to large Irish/Scots influence in Canadian English language. Good Post...