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Is it gushy or grushy

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By *rRios OP   Man
17 weeks ago

dublin

…and is this just a Dublin thing? Happy Friday

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By *og-ManMan
17 weeks ago

somewhere

Gushy if it's a woman

Grushy if it's a wedding

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By *evin86Man
17 weeks ago

South Dublin

Haha haven't heard that saying in years, I remember in school your money, premier League cards or pogs would get knocked out of your hands and they'd shout grushey, then everyone in the school thinks they can claim your stuff off the ground. Definitely a Dublin thing

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
17 weeks ago

Northside

Sorry lads,you're wrong!! It was Gushy.... usually happened when the father of the bride threw a load of coins up in the air as the bride to be left home on her way to the church!! He'd shout Gushy and there'd be carnage as kids scrambled around trying to get as much as they could!! It was done for good luck!! Happy times

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By *heeky_and_TroubleCouple
17 weeks ago

Dublin

Grushy most definitely- Trouble

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By *og-ManMan
17 weeks ago

somewhere


"Grushy most definitely- Trouble "

The northsiders must have called it Gushy

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By *ourtJesterMan
17 weeks ago

carlow

Bog man is correct.

Gushy- wet female lady parts

Grushy- old dublin tradition of throwing coins or favours at a wedding

Gushy** - used by kids when something was thrown and dropped and it was a scramble to get as many as possible as a crowd. Most likely a mispronounced grushy picked up as Gushy by kids.

Southsider here

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By *rRios OP   Man
17 weeks ago

dublin

It was always a gushy where I was. Predominantly northside primary school, predominantly southside secondary school.

I always though grushy was an English thing but I’m obviously way wrong on that one 🙃

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By *otel CaliforniaCouple
17 weeks ago

Dirty old town

Kind of disappointed to discover it’s supposed to be grushy not gushy... Northsider. (Elle)

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By *0kc00Man
17 weeks ago

cork

Never heard those words before.i heard of something similar in cork city about throwing sweets in the air and saying 'up for the ba'. Also must be a very localised expression as i had never heard of it and grew up 15 miles from the city. Very interesting how expressions and traditions can be so localised.

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By *mmmm300Woman
17 weeks ago

cork

Never heard of them either, or the Cork version of sweets in the air, from the wrong side of the city perhaps, lol

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
17 weeks ago

Northside


"Grushy most definitely- Trouble

The northsiders must have called it Gushy "

Only because we were right

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By *heeky_and_TroubleCouple
17 weeks ago

Dublin


"Grushy most definitely- Trouble

The northsiders must have called it Gushy "

I was southside primary and Meath secondary school so not sure but always grushy - Trouble

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
17 weeks ago

Northside


"Grushy most definitely- Trouble

The northsiders must have called it Gushy

I was southside primary and Meath secondary school so not sure but always grushy - Trouble "

Now that right there is the issue... Southside and Meath! Us Northsiders called it correctly,Gushy!!

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By *og-ManMan
17 weeks ago

somewhere

Oh there’d be killings at the grushys,” says Noel Merton, a retiree from Cabra, now living in Donegal.

He chuckles at the other end of the phone line. “Everyone jumping on the money, kicking you out of the way.”

Merton remembers grushys well, an old tradition when members of a wedding party would throw coins out to kids.

“There was always a grushy in Cabra in the 50s. I would’ve been the age where you’d be tough enough to get into it, you know?” he says.

He even had one at his own wedding in Ringsend Church in 1967. With pennies, and ha’pennies, and threepenny bits.

“It was the done thing at the time, you had to do it,” he says. It’s been a long time, though, since Merton witnessed one.

It’s been a while since Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project has seen one too. Not since the 60s, he says.

As a kid, Fagan would gather with friends by the old tin church on Sean MacDermott Street and wait for the bride and groom to arrive, he says.

“Not to see the bride or the groom, mind, just to see the money coming out,” he says.

But that’s decades back. “Times moved on, Ireland was changing, and all these traditions started to die off,” says Fagan.

Taken from a newspaper article

It's definitely Grushy

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
17 weeks ago

Northside


"Oh there’d be killings at the grushys,” says Noel Merton, a retiree from Cabra, now living in Donegal.

He chuckles at the other end of the phone line. “Everyone jumping on the money, kicking you out of the way.”

Merton remembers grushys well, an old tradition when members of a wedding party would throw coins out to kids.

“There was always a grushy in Cabra in the 50s. I would’ve been the age where you’d be tough enough to get into it, you know?” he says.

He even had one at his own wedding in Ringsend Church in 1967. With pennies, and ha’pennies, and threepenny bits.

“It was the done thing at the time, you had to do it,” he says. It’s been a long time, though, since Merton witnessed one.

It’s been a while since Terry Fagan of the North Inner City Folklore Project has seen one too. Not since the 60s, he says.

As a kid, Fagan would gather with friends by the old tin church on Sean MacDermott Street and wait for the bride and groom to arrive, he says.

“Not to see the bride or the groom, mind, just to see the money coming out,” he says.

But that’s decades back. “Times moved on, Ireland was changing, and all these traditions started to die off,” says Fagan.

Taken from a newspaper article

It's definitely Grushy "

Everyone knows you can't believe a thing you read in the papers!! And besides...who the hell is Noel Merton??

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By *og-ManMan
17 weeks ago

somewhere

You know Noel....he's from Cabra

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
17 weeks ago

Lucan

I had never heard of it until the day I got married in Dublin, fadó fadó.

Googled it and found this interesting explainer.

https://dublininquirer.com/2020/09/02/whatever-happened-to-dublin-s-wedding-grushys/

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