Regional word for knackers/scumbags.

orangerooster

Hmm im just after noticing that the word knacker/scumbag does not apply to Anto,Steo etc throughout the country in particular that they are called Scwahs in Navan,Langers in Cork etc.So do you have any regional slang for knacks from the flats and their various incarnations across the country?

Pacifico

Skobs and scumbags here in Limk

Stark

I assumed langer was just another word for asshole down in Cork. I find that in Cork anything goes, I often borrow the word scobe.

passive

it's always been skanger around here (Dublin) but i've been hearing scobe a lot recently...its a pretty good word too.

commuterised

skobos outside my house

Stark

Sucks was one that we used down in Cork

parasite

in cork: wackers or waaaas , with extra a's for degrees of skobiness :rolleyes:

Skud

fyi langer originally means food hall...
in cork it mainly scumbags knackers etc i know some ppl use pikey but that's the english influence. Pavys and scobes are two more

Gearoid

Sham

AL][EN

Originally posted by Gearoid
Sham

yea likewise its sham here in waterford.

ErinGoBrath

Skobes from my Dundalk days and Sham now I'm in the big smoke...

uberwolf

Originally posted by parasite
in cork: wackers or waaaas , with extra a's for degrees of skobiness :rolleyes:

the word schwaaaaah is one I've heard on my travels, similar emphais on a's

Big Chief

neds

rymus

"waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa's", I just love that word! Haven't used it in ages. I must use it before the week is out.

I've only ever really used
Wackers
Scobes/Skobies
Shams
Norrys (technically offensive to the rest of the northside I know)
Feens

and about ten others that I cant quite put my finger on now.

cournioni

I think they call them larriers in Dundalk.

AL][EN

Actually schwaaaaah (which i find impossible to pronounce for some reason) is a word ive herd some of my friends in dublin use recently for knacks i have no idea where it comes from tho!!

spongebob

Dubs

kopijack

Stokes in Derry..

Spides in Belfast-

cournioni

We just call them scummers in Cavan...

Mossy Monk

knackers, scumbags and shams

Senor_Fudge

shams here in galway sure amnt i living beside the sham capital - Tuam

BoB_BoT

couple of us call em Comanches in Athlone.

Seraphina

schwaaaaaaaa comes from the annoying accents

LoneGunM@n

I've just read a book by Ross O'Carroll Kelly [parody] that uses AJHs .... or in other words Ah Jaysus Howya

quank

skangers
schwaah
scumbags
wanna-be skangers
skanks
et cetera

Catsmokinpot

bla's - waterford scumbags
skangers
scumbags - sometimes followed by schwaaaaah!!!
scum

drunken student scum are also called hicks! and they all go out in hicktown - oxygen, rubys area of waterford

irlirishkev

1) nacks - short for nackars
2) creamers - short for cream crackers (nackars)
3) scum

Those are the ones i'd use mostly..

Kevin.

Kold

Scobes, knackers, scumbags, travvys, pikeys and gyppos... That's just my group... Cork

BigEejit

Originally posted by Catsmokinpot
bla's - waterford scumbags

I thought a blaa was a type of bread in Waaatorfurd

In fact it is

byte

Knackbags (cross between knacker and scumbag)
Scumbags
Tramp
Scummers

simu

In Cork:

knacker, whacker, scobe, fien, stella (for the females ones), scumbags, norrie, waaaah etc

Langer just means an *rsehole.

It's funny how a similar scumbag culture has developed not just in Irish towns and cities but all over Europe (well, France and England anyway, in my experience) despite the fact that these people are not generally very well-travelled or given access to the media.

tuxy

why is there posts about skangers on a regular basis why do boards users have a fascination with them?

simu

Originally posted by tuxx
why is there posts about skangers on a regular basis why do boards users have a fascination with them?

Everyone fears the belly of the skanger within that looks into you if you look for too long into it I guess!

I mean, have you ever thought what it would be like to be one - living by your impulses to satisfy youe immediate desires, moving in packs, no time for contemplation or deep thought? It is truly fascinating!

Senor_Fudge

and here we observe a true skanger ritual
the pub chat up

ehhhhh fancy a **** chuck
sure why not JAcinta

Emmo

Well it all depends on what kind of scummer they are doesnt it

1 shams
2 scallies
3 knackers
4 scummers
5 nic-nacks
6 dirty dogs
7 tinkers
8 gypo's
9 romo-gypo's.
10 Scangers

Emmo

Yavvy

culchies

In ref to Mucks post

User45701

I dont understand why everyone just not call them what they are.

Primtives

A lower form of life that is driven by basic feelings.
The urge to mate and the urge to gain dominace though pysical combat

Pacifico

Originally posted by User45701
I dont understand why everyone just not call them what they are.

Primtives

A lower form of life that is driven by basic feelings.
The urge to mate and the urge to gain dominace though pysical combat

yeah some are. Some just want you phone though. I supose this is where the physical combat comes into play

Gillie

Minkers - Sligo.
Also nackers.