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Slang

Ausdubliner · 2007-04-15 12:48:46

Im new to Ireland and interested in some of the local slang and language used. Can you list some common ones for me. One I've heard a lot is 'grand'. Everything in Ireland is grand!!

15-04-2007 12:48pm

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Ausdubliner

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Im new to Ireland and interested in some of the local slang and language used. Can you list some common ones for me.

One I've heard a lot is 'grand'. Everything in Ireland is grand!!

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Lots of people say yolk as well... not as in egg but to mean "thing". Althought I think it's spelled yoke.
"What's that yoke for?":D

I also like the word culchie, which is to describe anyone from outside Dublin I think, a bit like a hillbilly. And press, which means cupboard.

Also a lot of people use "Go Away" as an answer to a funny/ incredible story or something they might be sceptical about.

"Ireland beat Australia in the cricket"
"Go Away!"

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