Giving out

[hecate]

Annoys me. From the context it appears it means to shout or to tell off or to be otherwise angrily vocal. But it doesn't make any sense.

"He was giving out for an hour"

Giving out what? Sweets? Advice? Cherry flavoured condoms?

I hadn't heard it ever in my life until a month ago, now I am hearing it all over. On here, at the school gate, in the street.

What's going on?

Who can I blame?

According to my dictionary, you can blame the Irish.

Though I generally blame the Americans.

I think it is possibly Irish? At least all the people I've heard say it are from Irish backgrounds. It's an idiom, you can't really complain that it's not logical -- neither is 'hang on a minute' or 'ear-bashing' or 5 zillion other idioms.

Irish. We give out all the time.

Ah someone's dictionary agrees with me.

From the same source you also get "I'm going to bring the children swimming" where standard English would have 'take'.

I am a paid-up pedant, but I don't think regional variations are really legitimate fodder for pedantic ire.

aha! Fair enough then. Can't believe I've never heard it before in years of life!

Yes,we are pretty strange here Up North.

I was puzzled by "while" when I first moved up here,as in "I'm working nine while six tommorow".

Definitely Irish.
Here's one I think must be West Country, which I keep hearing lately: 'Where is that to?' instead of 'Where is that?' It is puzzling me a bit.

Yup Irish expression, also " I gave out to him"

I used to have a problem with my dp saying "Have I to?" meaning "shall I?" rather than "Do I have to"" I remember once in a clothes shop he said "Have I to try that suit on?" and I said "Well, no, if you don't want to" He was seriously baffled.

My Irish father in law "gave out" at length!

The one that amuses me is when an Irish person says they are after doing something. This means they have just done it. On numerous occasions I have seen a writer trying to capture Irish idiom use it in the sense 'I am going to do' which is not what we mean at all.

To me,.giving out means something TOTALLY different to the Irish meaning!

Give over I can understand,..like using "Get away" when you hear something shocking.

I cannot be doing with the phrases
"Good to go"

and

" ...so not..."(as in eg., "I am so not ready to go to bed)

I've never heard it in my life. What does it mean?

we give over but never give out

What's Primal Scream's "Give Out But Don't Give Up" all about?

if they were from Yorkshire it'd be called "Give Up? Give Over."