Archaic phrases

[ibis]

Very Dublin one I think:
Septic. As in; "that new boyfriend of yours looks septic"

What, American?

['orebel]

Does anybody know what a "wigger" is?

It might mean a certain type of repulsive female but am not sure.

Could be wigga. Combination of white and nigga. Middle class white kids with ghetto aspirations

[cry freedom]

Ruddel's Twist and Mick McQuaid tobacco
"Plug" tobacco.
Pipe cleaners

[ibis]

Is "mahogany gaspipe" still used?

[Gael Nua]

'He was haunted his auld pair didn't catch him gatting last night!".

[The Field Marshal]

'He was haunted his auld pair didn't catch him gatting last night!".

I hesitate to ask.

Gatting?

[Gael Nua]

Nothing to severe) it means drinking but usually in a field or down a lane, you know a couple of flagons of snakebite or cans of Steiger passed around the hoodied muppets )

[The Field Marshal]

Nothing to severe) it means drinking but usually in a field or down a lane, you know a couple of flagons of snakebite or cans of Steiger passed around the hoodied muppets )

.Thank you .Thats a relief.

"Bobs your Uncle."

[Own Arris]

Having a game of "chinies" = playing marbles. And the marbles had some unusual names I recall. You had the ordinary glass marbles with one colour in the middle. Then you had "smackers" which had different coloured stripes inside. You had to hit a smacker twice with an ordinary marble to win it. Then there was a "Tá". A big yolk of a thing almost the size of a golfball. You had to hit that at least 10 times with an ordinary marble and at least 5 with a smacker to win it. Of course it only had to hit your puny little marble or smacker once to win it. And the Tá was so big it was hard for its owner not to miss!

Then there were the ball bearings, some the size of or bigger than a Tá. Solid balls of shiny metal that could smash concrete. You had to hit these monstrosities about 20 times with a regular marble to win it, then have your hair pulled out if you did and tried to leave with it

Innocent days...

Where I'm from a large marble was known as a gullie, a ball bearing was a steelie

It was gear - brilliant

A hairy molly - a long haired hippie or effeminate person, possibly from 18th century gay taverns known as 'molly houses'

A benny - childish term for homosexual (or could mean not very bright, like Bennie from 70s TV show 'Crossroads')

To gozzie - to spit

A stabber - a half smoked cigarette put back in the pack to smoke later.
also a nickname for somebody short i.e. Stabber Murphy, this could cause undue fear in those unfamiliar with its origins.

[bboruimhe]

We used to buy loosies (single cigarette) and the person with you would call 'next on that' and if there was someone else, they'd call 'next on the next' while telling us not to horse (suck to hard) it or bog (soak) it. Then we would all go home to our gaffs to do our ecka, before we got grief from the auld lade or even a bateing

we used to say 'Butts on ye', and 'Don't put a jew's arse on it' (i posted this previously but interesting to hear others remember the same thing). We bought loose majors for a penny (went up to 3p, c. 1974). This was Northside Dublin in the early 70s.