 |
|
02-19-2013, 08:19 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Sylvan Lake/South Calif.
Posts: 3,465
|
|
Why do people use the term "Slay" in Fishing????
I've recently read a few post where members use use the term "SLAY" in respect to their fishing adventures which troubles me & just doesn't make sense. So I looked up the definition and found the following ... I trust this isn't what people normally do when fishin ?
Definition of SLAY... transitive verb!
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers; broadly : to strike down, assassinate.
2: to delight or amuse immensely (slayed the audience) intransitive verb - kill, murder — slay·er noun
Synonyms: carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, take, conquer, defeat, overcome.
Old English examples of SLAY = to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact ... Our foes must all be slain or the Knight slew the dragon!
Poor Dragon or perhaps poor fish ... guess I just don't understand why ?????
Zip
__________________
 Z-z
|
02-19-2013, 08:23 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Sherwood Park, Ab
Posts: 516
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z
I've recently read a few post where members use use the term "SLAY" in respect to their fishing adventures which troubles me & just doesn't make sense. So I looked up the definition and found the following ... I trust this isn't what people normally do when fishin ?
Definition of SLAY... transitive verb!
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers; broadly : to strike down, assassinate.
2: to delight or amuse immensely (slayed the audience) intransitive verb - kill, murder — slay·er noun
Synonyms: carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, take, conquer, defeat, overcome.
Old English examples of SLAY = to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact ... Our foes must all be slain or the Knight slew the dragon!
Poor Dragon or perhaps poor fish ... guess I just don't understand why ?????
Zip |
Really?
I hope all this research and writing didnt take too long because there is much better things to do with your life.
|
02-19-2013, 08:28 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Beaumont
Posts: 226
|
|
wow
__________________
Limit your catch, not always catch your limit
|
02-19-2013, 08:30 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Calgary
Posts: 2,154
|
|
Have you ever heard of somebody describe getting intoxicated by using a word such as slammed, smashed, destroyed, ****ed, wasted, etc.? I don't think you are meant to take it literally. Slay probably doesn't mean that they caught a walleye and then kicked it around the lake and whipped it to death with their rod. Relax.
__________________
----------
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead.
|
02-19-2013, 08:32 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 284
|
|
We usually say slaughtered them when we have a good fishing day, slay would be a ok fishing day
|
02-19-2013, 08:32 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Alberta
Posts: 542
|
|
|
02-19-2013, 09:00 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Sherwood Forest
Posts: 5,176
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z
I've recently read a few post where members use use the term "SLAY" in respect to their fishing adventures which troubles me & just doesn't make sense. So I looked up the definition and found the following ... I trust this isn't what people normally do when fishin ?
Definition of SLAY... transitive verb!
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers; broadly : to strike down, assassinate.
2: to delight or amuse immensely (slayed the audience) intransitive verb - kill, murder — slay·er noun
Synonyms: carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, take, conquer, defeat, overcome.
Old English examples of SLAY = to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact ... Our foes must all be slain or the Knight slew the dragon!
Poor Dragon or perhaps poor fish ... guess I just don't understand why ?????
Zip |
I'm no wordsmith, but I would lean to the list of cinnamons  in bold from your post.
"Slay" sounds so much more appropriate than "we conquerd", "we defeated".
Ok, that's it. back to a 100 page case law document I'm reading.
__________________
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan
Either get busy living, or get busy dying!
|
02-19-2013, 09:04 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Turner Valley
Posts: 2,922
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by jacenbeers
Have you ever heard of somebody describe getting intoxicated by using a word such as slammed, smashed, destroyed, ****ed, wasted, etc.? I don't think you are meant to take it literally. Slay probably doesn't mean that they caught a walleye and then kicked it around the lake and whipped it to death with their rod. Relax.
|
your right but couldn't you just picture that, lmao. Picture the guy dressed in a ninja suit 
|
02-19-2013, 09:11 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 152
|
|
From now on I will be saying I conquered the fish. Thanks for the English lesson!
__________________
Limit your catch don't catch your limit  
|
02-19-2013, 09:11 PM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 6,408
|
|
Slay sounds so much better than smote or rase,, anyhoo dude I gotta header, later, over n'out, ciao'der!
|
02-19-2013, 09:34 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Leduc
Posts: 129
|
|
This post makes me laugh! I use it as a slang word. Here let me help you understand.
Slang
1.
very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language.
2.
(in English and some other languages) speech and writing characterized by the use of vulgar and socially taboo vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.
|
02-19-2013, 09:45 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 851
|
|
Somebody needs to slay this thread.
|
02-19-2013, 09:45 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 1,016
|
|
Uhhhh. Cool.
|
02-19-2013, 10:11 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,844
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z
I've recently read a few post where members use use the term "SLAY" in respect to their fishing adventures which troubles me & just doesn't make sense. So I looked up the definition and found the following ... I trust this isn't what people normally do when fishin ?
Definition of SLAY... transitive verb!
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers; broadly : to strike down, assassinate.
2: to delight or amuse immensely (slayed the audience) intransitive verb - kill, murder — slay·er noun
Synonyms: carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, take, conquer, defeat, overcome.
Old English examples of SLAY = to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact ... Our foes must all be slain or the Knight slew the dragon!
Poor Dragon or perhaps poor fish ... guess I just don't understand why ?????
Zip |
Hyperbole (pron.: /haɪˈpɜrbəliː/ hy-PUR-bə-lee;[1] Greek: ὑπερβολή hyperbolē, "exaggeration") is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, b ut is not meant to be taken literally.[2] 
|
02-19-2013, 10:11 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB
Posts: 16,986
|
|
Ive always said " Slayed " when it was a good days fishing. But then again i say it again on a good day of shooting ruffed grouse. And those are dead.
__________________
Alberta Bigbore
|
02-19-2013, 11:45 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 510
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by jacenbeers
Have you ever heard of somebody describe getting intoxicated by using a word such as slammed, smashed, destroyed, ****ed, wasted, etc.? I don't think you are meant to take it literally. Slay probably doesn't mean that they caught a walleye and then kicked it around the lake and whipped it to death with their rod. Relax.
|
Speak for yourself when I kill my walleye I like to take 40lb braid tie one end to the tail of one walleye to the tail of another walleye and use them like nun-chucks to beat a northern pike to death.
__________________
better to have a short life, that is full of what you like doing; than a long life spent in a miserable way- Alan Watts
|
02-19-2013, 11:56 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 477
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by B_Type13X2
Speak for yourself when I kill my walleye I like to take 40lb braid tie one end to the tail of one walleye to the tail of another walleye and use them like nun-chucks to beat a northern pike to death.
|
lmao. oh you too?! 
|
02-20-2013, 12:03 AM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Copperhead Road, Morinville
Posts: 19,290
|
|
I'll give this thread a 9 out of 10 for entertainment value. 
|
02-20-2013, 12:12 AM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: on a mishn for fishn.
Posts: 8,790
|
|
esay book readns.
Cause I can't spell vanquishd good and overcome sound lame.
|
02-20-2013, 12:43 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 510
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by pike_king780
lmao. oh you too?! |
Damn rights... Do you also cut their fins off and use them as throwing stars for whitefish that have pushed you too far?
__________________
better to have a short life, that is full of what you like doing; than a long life spent in a miserable way- Alan Watts
|
02-20-2013, 12:58 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 1,010
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by B_Type13X2
Speak for yourself when I kill my walleye I like to take 40lb braid tie one end to the tail of one walleye to the tail of another walleye and use them like nun-chucks to beat a northern pike to death.
|
HAHAHA! awesome.
The only thing I've ever slayed while fishing is my dignity.
|
02-20-2013, 02:14 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 510
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by OneGirlWolfPack
HAHAHA! awesome.
The only thing I've ever slayed while fishing is my dignity.
|
So like me and dating but only with fishing?
__________________
better to have a short life, that is full of what you like doing; than a long life spent in a miserable way- Alan Watts
|
02-20-2013, 04:04 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Red Deer
Posts: 370
|
|
hahaha nice thread
|
02-20-2013, 05:05 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Southern Alberta
Posts: 7,350
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z
I've recently read a few post where members use use the term "SLAY" in respect to their fishing adventures which troubles me & just doesn't make sense. So I looked up the definition and found the following ... I trust this isn't what people normally do when fishin ?
Definition of SLAY... transitive verb!
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers; broadly : to strike down, assassinate.
2: to delight or amuse immensely (slayed the audience) intransitive verb - kill, murder — slay·er noun
Synonyms: carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, take, conquer, defeat, overcome.
Old English examples of SLAY = to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact ... Our foes must all be slain or the Knight slew the dragon!
Poor Dragon or perhaps poor fish ... guess I just don't understand why ?????
Zip |
I agree and smash is another term used.  Must be an age thing
To me it does not seem respectful of the resources.
But mere words have been used throughout time to describe their conquests .
Last edited by huntsfurfish; 02-20-2013 at 05:13 AM.
|
02-20-2013, 06:20 AM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Perdue SK
Posts: 1,570
|
|
Or...
We used to play the fish. Now we fight them.
Free
|
02-20-2013, 06:46 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 6,470
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z
I've recently read a few post where members use use the term "SLAY" in respect to their fishing adventures which troubles me & just doesn't make sense. So I looked up the definition and found the following ... I trust this isn't what people normally do when fishin ?
Definition of SLAY... transitive verb!
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers; broadly : to strike down, assassinate.
2: to delight or amuse immensely (slayed the audience) intransitive verb - kill, murder — slay·er noun
Synonyms: carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, take, conquer, defeat, overcome.
Old English examples of SLAY = to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact ... Our foes must all be slain or the Knight slew the dragon!
Poor Dragon or perhaps poor fish ... guess I just don't understand why ?????
Zip |
Key words in your search.
__________________
 Kim
Gonna get me a 16" perch.
|
02-20-2013, 08:13 AM
|
|
Gone Fishing
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,802
|
|
When a comedien says " I killed em last night"......... it really doesnt mean he killed em last night, rather it means he had a good set and people laughed. When someone says "They slayed em last night" it would denote that they were into to catching some of the fish population at that time.
|
02-20-2013, 08:44 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Southern Alberta
Posts: 1,777
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z
I've recently read a few post where members use use the term "SLAY" in respect to their fishing adventures which troubles me & just doesn't make sense. So I looked up the definition and found the following ... I trust this isn't what people normally do when fishin ?
Definition of SLAY... transitive verb!
1: to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers; broadly : to strike down, assassinate.
2: to delight or amuse immensely (slayed the audience) intransitive verb - kill, murder — slay·er noun
Synonyms: carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, take, conquer, defeat, overcome.
Old English examples of SLAY = to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact ... Our foes must all be slain or the Knight slew the dragon!
Poor Dragon or perhaps poor fish ... guess I just don't understand why ?????
Zip |
|
02-20-2013, 09:01 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Edmonton, AB
Posts: 16,986
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by B_Type13X2
Speak for yourself when I kill my walleye I like to take 40lb braid tie one end to the tail of one walleye to the tail of another walleye and use them likenun-chucks to beat a northern pike to death.
|
__________________
Alberta Bigbore
|
02-20-2013, 09:37 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 1,247
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alberta Bigbore
Ive always said " Slayed " when it was a good days fishing. But then again i say it again on a good day of shooting ruffed grouse. And those are dead. |
Hahaha this is the best and very true !
__________________
Never celebrate till you got your knife stuck in it !
Some times you catch the Big fish, some times you get stuck in Chip
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 08:34 PM.
|
Linear Mode
