Carlow slang

Scraggs

I had a great conversation with a chap from Galway last night who said he could sum up a Carlow person in 4 words..
Ey?
Lad
Quare
Foundry

I have to say he wasn't far wrong:D I don't say Foundry as much as I used to though

Any other common words/phrases regularly used in Carleh??

randylonghorn

OK, please enlighten a non-Carlovian (or whatever the correct word is!).

Foundry?

centrino

Foundry - Nite Club in Carlow Town, probably the most popular one there!!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I always made an effort not to use those words, and to say 'the foundry' but recently I've noticed myself saying 'well lad' to some of my friends.

it's a slippery slope..

randylonghorn

centrino wrote: »

Foundry - Nite Club in Carlow Town, probably the most popular one there!!

Aaaahh ... tuigim anois! So ... "Foundry last night?" would mean "were ye on the pull last night?", etc, etc. ....

Mordeth wrote: »

I always made an effort not to use those words, and to say 'the foundry' but recently I've noticed myself saying 'well lad' to some of my friends.

Ah, it's all right, Mord, we all know yer lad is yer best friend, and that you spend most of your time attending to his needs ...

Mordeth wrote: »

it's a slippery slope..

I bet ... >_>



(Seriously, thanks centrino, I was wondering what tf she was on about!)

road_high

"Well" would be a big one alrite...like everyone in this side of the country!

carlowboy

"In fairness" is a big one as not many people from outside the county say.

patrickc

blagardin or do you know that sort of way

wheres me jumpa

- I do be
- Fair (as opposed to Quare....I was fair drunk)
- Locked (as in.... I was fair locked, or ... I do be locked at the weekend)
- Oh jaysis (as in.... oh jaysis I was fair locked)

Creamy Goodness

tulla - tullow.

tommycahir

Don't forget the eternally famous "Carla"

Undergod

Quare is the main one really.

RxQueen

the way ye say sound! every weekend i do be laughing at that!

also when speaking to one person i find ye say "ah lads that was quare funny"

Paddy@CIRL

With my better half being from Carla' I've picked up the following ...

Ha' - or a Hat as it is better known as to the rest of the country.

Carlow people tend to work from a 25 letter alphabe', the letter 'T' seems to have made it's escape ...

wheres me jumpa

emo!! wrote: »

the way ye say sound! every weekend i do be laughing at that!

i do be..!

Undergod

A lad from Kildare told me the other day that he'd never heard the phrase "skitting" and thought it was a Carlow slang. That's hardly right is it? I thought it was everywhere.

wheres me jumpa

Nah Im sure thats around the country.

Loveless

do be do be do be do be doo! there's a phrase I think I've only ever heard used in Carlow which is: sprongin' (bull****ting)

v. sprong, sprong·ing,
v.intr.
1. To speak foolishly or insolently.
2. To engage in idle conversation.

Nalz

http://slang.ie/index.php?county=Carlow

Nalz

You doing abit of hedgecutting tonight??"

never heard that one!

Undergod

Ah deadly, "cousint" is on that slang.ie site! I remember that!

Nead21

Cremo wrote: »

tulla - tullow.

haha my boyfriend's from tullow, he hates it when i call it tulla.....but im glad to hear im not the only one!!:D (although i do it to take the piss out of him!)

wheres me jumpa

"vegables"

wheres me jumpa

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

"vegables"

Although I think that might be Ireland as a while!

ShayK1

please stop taking the pissing out of Carlow??

I'in from tulla, an me Ma learnt me to spake proper when I was quare Young..... RIGH ?

Mylow

Undergod wrote: »

Ah deadly, "cousint" is on that slang.ie site! I remember that!

I remember that as well.

Other favourite was...'I'll axe me mudder'

Don1

"I do be quare glad a havin a ha' in de pockeh ommy jackeh of a cowelled aaevnin' ouh with de bize!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I'm from "tulla" and work in Borris so am aux fait with the bulk of the shoddy pronunciation. I have slipped into using it deliberately myself although I try not to, honest!

mullanimal

lads make sure ye get carla represented well on slang.ie...

the book is coming out soon and counties are competing for their place in it...

twould be fair ill if ye didn't make it into the top 10!

Tobias Greeshman

- oh jaysus lad thats savage!!
- I'm quare drunk
- cousint! ha ha!! the amount of people who think it ends in a d/t is shocking
- I hopped myself last night - I injured myself last night

Scraggs

Quarehawk

steve66

Well I don't where these originated from, and I guess they all would would not be descriped as slang
But when i was going to school, there were phrases like
"hows she cuttin?"
"up the yard, Benjy" a reference to a character on an old tv
program called "The Riordans"
Then there was and still is the ubitiquos "Man"
as in "Hey man, whose yer man?"
"Dunno, Man. Hey man, do ye know who yer man is"
No man"
Then there is "Bud"
"Flip" was also used extensively in my schooldays as in "flip it anyhow" It was a substitute for the F word.
"More power" although that would have been said by adults when I was a child. It's best said in a very gruff voice. I think it was more of a graigcullen saying.
"coddin" although I see that's a kilkenny phrase.
I have heard my father say "he's not a worth a stocking ****e" or something like that.
Is "no problem" still used all the time?