Words you have only heard of recently..

[Tazio]

49 minutes ago, Morgan said:

Imbibing alcohol by means of the rectum.

 

 

I imagine you’d spill quite a bit. 

[Dawnrazor]

1 hour ago, Morgan said:

Imbibing alcohol by means of the rectum.

 

 

Without doubt the best way to consume Tennent's Lager.

[Morgan]

47 minutes ago, Tazio said:

I imagine you’d spill quite a bit. 

 

25 minutes ago, Dawnrazor said:

Without doubt the best way to consume Tennent's Lager.

My wife tells me that one has to be upside-down, and that the process involves a length of rubber tubing.

 

She was drunk on Tennents lager at the time.

 

 

[Ulysses]

39 minutes ago, Dawnrazor said:

Without doubt the best way to consume Tennent's Lager.

 

The old joke about the fella who was prescribed suppositories, and went back to the doctor a few days later, still unwell, and says "those tablets you gave me were useless - I may as well have shoved them up my arse!"

[Tommy Brown]

20 minutes ago, Ulysses said:

 

The old joke about the fella who was prescribed suppositories, and went back to the doctor a few days later, still unwell, and says "those tablets you gave me were useless - I may as well have shoved them up my arse!"

Told him to put them in his back passage.

He didn't have a back passage. Put them in the lobby instead.

Been as well, sticking them up up his arse.

 

Edinburgh kickbackers won't know a lobby

[Spellczech]

Sanpaku eyes 

 

where 3 sides of the white of the eye can be seen round the iris.

 

Examples are Billie Eilish and Sidney Sweeney

[Morgan]

25 minutes ago, Tommy Brown said:

Told him to put them in his back passage.

He didn't have a back passage. Put them in the lobby instead.

Been as well, sticking them up up his arse.

 

Edinburgh kickbackers won't know a lobby

A lobby is a hall, is it not, Tommy?

[Boof]

3 hours ago, Morgan said:

Imbibing alcohol by means of the rectum.

 

I can safely say that is NOT the derivation of my username  

[Tazio]

1 hour ago, Tommy Brown said:

Told him to put them in his back passage.

He didn't have a back passage. Put them in the lobby instead.

Been as well, sticking them up up his arse.

 

Edinburgh kickbackers won't know a lobby

I’d better go and visit my dear old mum and tell her all those years she’s had a lobby she’s been a traitor to her home town. 

[The Mighty Thor]

21 minutes ago, Tazio said:

I’d better go and visit my dear old mum and tell her all those years she’s had a lobby she’s been a traitor to her home town. 

All those years of stuff being 'ben the lobby, son'

 

☹️

[Morgan]

23 minutes ago, Tazio said:

I’d better go and visit my dear old mum and tell her all those years she’s had a lobby she’s been a traitor to her home town. 

 

1 minute ago, The Mighty Thor said:

All those years of stuff being 'ben the lobby, son'

 

☹️

 

Yeah.

 

Not too sure where Tommy got that one from.

[Tazio]

5 minutes ago, The Mighty Thor said:

All those years of stuff being 'ben the lobby, son'

 

☹️

It gets worse. She’s got a lobby press where she keeps the hoover and stuff. 

[Morgan]

1 minute ago, Tazio said:

It gets worse. She’s got a lobby press where she keeps the hoover and stuff. 

But, does she have a bunker?

[Tommy Brown]

30 minutes ago, Tazio said:

I’d better go and visit my dear old mum and tell her all those years she’s had a lobby she’s been a traitor to her home town. 

Right old word that nobody uses these days. Think I forget that JKB is full of old timers like us.🥺

[Tazio]

4 minutes ago, Morgan said:

But, does she have a bunker?

Of course she does, no middle class counter nonsense from my mum. Strictly old school. 

[Morgan]

Just now, Tazio said:

Of course she does, no middle class counter nonsense from my mum. Strictly old school. 

Good girl, she is, Taz.  👍

 

Not a ‘worktop ‘ in sight too!

 

Magic!  

 

 

[redjambo]

19 hours ago, Tommy Brown said:

Told him to put them in his back passage.

He didn't have a back passage. Put them in the lobby instead.

Been as well, sticking them up up his arse.

 

Edinburgh kickbackers won't know a lobby

 

Are you talking about a vestibule, young man?

[Tommy Brown]

17 minutes ago, redjambo said:

 

Are you talking about a vestibule, young man?

What do you call your scullery, posh git?

 

The loaby, was the hallway though.

Us skanks, never had a front porch.

Edited December 27, 2023 by Tommy Brown

[Morgan]

18 minutes ago, redjambo said:

 

Are you talking about a vestibule, young man?

 

2 minutes ago, Tommy Brown said:

What do you call your scullery, posh git?

 

The loaby, was the hallway though.

Us skanks, never had a front porch.

 

 

We were too busy sharing our time between the utility room and the drawing room to even venture near the front porch.

 

Scullery though?  We still have one.  

[redjambo]

2 minutes ago, Tommy Brown said:

What do you call your scullery, posh git?

 

The loaby, was the hallway though.

Us skanks, never had a front porch.

 

Hang on, I'll need to ask the maid... (Taps her on the head).

 

The "airlock" between our leaky front door and the hall, if we've had one, has always been our "vestibule" and the hall has been our hall. Never had a "lobby" - always thought that was for hotels, government buildings and the like.

[FWJ]

On 12/11/2023 at 17:49, Ulysses said:

Two words I learned today, one of which I plan to use when I get the chance, and the other which I plan never to deploy.

 

Apricate: Verb, meaning to bask in sunshine.  This is one I plan to use again.

 

Synecdoche: Noun, the use of the name of an attribute or part to describe a complete thing, or (less often) the name of an entire thing to describe only a part. Examples include:

 

Hand to mean workman or sailor.

Suits to mean businesspeople.

Wheels to mean a car.

 

It also includes things like using 10 Downing Street, or The White House, as shorthand for the longer titles of office holders.

 

I think that’s a type of synecdoche called metonymy 

 

 

Majuscule meaning ‘large letters or capitals’ as opposed to minuscule.

(And that’s why it’s not “miniscule”!)

 

 

[FWJ]

Thitherto meaning ‘up until then’

[Lone Striker]

40 minutes ago, redjambo said:

 

Are you talking about a vestibule, young man?

Oxford dictionary derivation of  scullery -  from Old French escuelerie, from escuele ‘dish’,

.... so its where you (or the servants ) washed & stored the crockery & utensils.   

 

My Granny called her wee kitchen in her  Gorgie Road tenement a scullery.   

 

[Cruyff]

My mate had to voice Google, in his words, "what is a Philistine", after I suggested he was one, after he slagged me off for presenting a cheeseboard with grapes and chutney etc...

 

He then preceded to suggest , "wee bits of cheddar & pickles on cocktail sticks", was a somewhat superior choice of party food.

 

Then inferred in not so many words that I was some sort of snobby posh person.

 

I, of course responded with -

 

"I'm not boojie mate." 

 

Of course, he didn't know what that meant either. So I had to explain to him, "boojie", it's the kids term for "bourgeoisie". 

 

At which point he's looking at me like he's been shot with a tranquilliser

 

Anyway, he had to voice Google that as well. 

 

"Google, what is a bourgeoisie". 

 

 

These folk walk amongst us ladies and gentlemen. 

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by Cruyff

[FWJ]

5 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

My mate had to voice Google, in his words, "what is a Philistine", after I suggested he was one, after he slagged me off for presenting a cheeseboard with grapes and chutney etc...

 

He then preceded to suggest , "wee bits of cheddar & pickles on cocktail sticks", was a somewhat superior choice of party food.

 

Then inferred in not so many words that I was some sort of snobby posh person.

 

I, of course responded with -

 

"I'm not boojie mate." 

 

Of course, he didn't know what that meant either. So I had to explain to him, "boojie", it's the kids term for "bourgeoisie". 

 

At which point he's looking at me like he's been shot with a tranquilliser

 

Anyway, he had to voice Google that as well. 

 

"Google, what is a bourgeoisie". 

 

 

These folk walk amongst us ladies and gentlemen. 

 

Hmmmm …..

[redjambo]

31 minutes ago, FWJ said:

Hmmmm …..

 

Maybe Cruyff suggested the same thing immediately afterwards too?

[FWJ]

11 minutes ago, redjambo said:

 

Maybe Cruyff suggested the same thing immediately afterwards too?

👍  That’ll be it!

[muldoon74]

23 hours ago, ǝǝɥʇᴉɯS said:

Sausage??

😂😂

[periodictabledancer]

Doing a crossword currently "sapid" (5) t*s*y.

No idea what it means , never seen it before. 

[Morgan]

1 minute ago, periodictabledancer said:

Doing a crossword currently "sapid" (5) t*s*y.

No idea what it means , never seen it before. 

Sapid means 'to have flavour'.

 

 

[henrysmithsgloves]

21 hours ago, Tommy Brown said:

Told him to put them in his back passage.

He didn't have a back passage. Put them in the lobby instead.

Been as well, sticking them up up his arse.

 

Edinburgh kickbackers won't know a lobby

Definition of a gynecologist...

Spoiler

A person who can paint the lobby through the letter box 😔

 

[redtipsjambo]

Said to my partner recently that her ballop was down, hadn’t a clue what I was  talking about.

Hadn’t said that word for years, funny how long lost words come into your conversation sometimes.

[redjambo]

21 hours ago, Morgan said:

Sapid means 'to have flavour'.

 

 

 

Never heard of it, to be honest. Interesting.

 

From the Online Etymological Dictionary:

 

sapid (adj.)

 

1630s, "having the power of affecting the organs of taste," from Latin sapidus "savory, having a taste," from sapere (see sapient). Also figurative, "gratifying to the mind or its tastes." Its opposite is insipid. Related: Sapidness; sapidity.

[redjambo]

5 hours ago, redtipsjambo said:

Said to my partner recently that her ballop was down, hadn’t a clue what I was  talking about.

Hadn’t said that word for years, funny how long lost words come into your conversation sometimes.

 

New to me too. Old Scottish word.

 

https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/ballop

 

Described quaintly in an 1824 encyclopedia as "The shop door in a man's nether clothing."

[Sydney]

I have Indian colleagues who use the word "prepone" when talking about moving the time of a meeting forward (ie the opposite of postpone).  

[Greedy Jambo]

My mum doesn't like it when is say pish. 

[periodictabledancer]

3 hours ago, Greedy Jambo said:

My mum doesn't like it when is say pish. 

Reminds me of my mate's mum, English and quite posh, she hated any form of swearing and insisted "shite is more polite". 

So, everything was "shite". 

[Ulysses]

2 minutes ago, periodictabledancer said:

Reminds me of my mate's mum, English and quite posh, she hated any form of swearing and insisted "shite is more polite". 

So, everything was "shite". 

 

An old friend of mine, now sadly deceased, used to tell the story of being in Iowa in the 1970s with a group of Irish musicians.  They asked local young people which word they thought was more offensive: "shit" or "shite".  The locals were generally reluctant to answer, on the grounds that they didn't know what "shite" was.

[periodictabledancer]

Just now, Ulysses said:

 

An old friend of mine, now sadly deceased, used to tell the story of being in Iowa in the 1970s with a group of Irish musicians.  They asked local young people which word they thought was more offensive: "shit" or "shite".  The locals were generally reluctant to answer, on the grounds that they didn't know what "shite" was.

🤣

 

Doing a drive holiday in the US , staying in rural Arizona, went to a steak house. 

My daughter tried it ( bit of a veggie) and was blown away at how good it was. When the waiter asked what she tought , she said "it was lovely" . He literally stared at her and said "no one ever said that before".

What he actually meant was he didn't know what she meant. He didn't know it was a great compliment. 

 

"two nations separated by a common language". 

[Maple Leaf]

On 26/12/2023 at 12:58, Morgan said:

Imbibing alcohol by means of the rectum.

 

 

I prefer the traditional method. 

 

I'm also opposed to coffee enemas as a treatment for cancer: it make the coffee taste awful.

[Ulysses]

7 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

I prefer the traditional method. 

 

I'm also opposed to coffee enemas as a treatment for cancer: it make the coffee taste awful.

 

 

[Morgan]

12 hours ago, Maple Leaf said:

I prefer the traditional method. 

 

I'm also opposed to coffee enemas as a treatment for cancer: it make the coffee taste awful.

[ri Alban]

13 hours ago, periodictabledancer said:

Reminds me of my mate's mum, English and quite posh, she hated any form of swearing and insisted "shite is more polite". 

So, everything was "shite". 

I think his maw meant everything he says. Not the word pish, more, him talking pish.