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Interesting words and phrases you've heard today

Rebelheart · 2009-05-13 12:54:01

Just heard a guy on RTÉ Radio 1 use the word "karfuffle". I'm not sure of its spelling, but I gather it means something like rí rá agus ruaile buaile/commotion. He then went on, dismissively recounting somebody's opinion with the words 'mar dhéa!"

13-05-2009 12:54pm

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Just heard a guy on RTÉ Radio 1 use the word "karfuffle". I'm not sure of its spelling, but I gather it means something like rí rá agus ruaile buaile/commotion.

He then went on, dismissively recounting somebody's opinion with the words 'mar dhéa!"

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#2 13-05-2009 12:57pm

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Cockgiblet.

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#3 13-05-2009 12:57pm

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The last interesting word I heard was "goother", which I guess must have its origin in rural Ireland.

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m**therf*ckers as in: "Gandhi the Indian is what you said... a small man with a bald head and he was rather under fed WRITE IT DOWN M/f'ers "

Yeah...

thats a song for 5-7 year olds.

* song: a history lesson - stephen lynch

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#6 13-05-2009 1:00pm

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Palarva ...Pulava whatever the fcuk , loadsa of people are saying it , personally Ive never come across it before...where has it come from?

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#7 13-05-2009 1:02pm

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Trev M wrote: »

Palarva ...Pulava whatever the fcuk , loadsa of people are saying it , personally Ive never come across it before...where has it come from?

divin in their.

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"Two this morning, both to the tesco girl who served me on Tuesday." This is from a poem on the subject of masturbation ( http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60192012&postcount=1 )and is such a wonderful phrase that I intend to steal it and use it as my own.

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#9 13-05-2009 1:11pm

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"Kindly do the needful"

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#10 13-05-2009 1:54pm

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Dord wrote: »

"Kindly do the needful"

:mad:

Was that Santosh or Ravi who said that to you ?

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#11 13-05-2009 2:11pm

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Heard someone once say to another person about something that tasted digusting
"....tasted like a sh!tty flip flop...! "

I thought that was fairly funny!

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helimachoptor wrote: »

"He's not fighting the drugs, it's his body gasping for air, it's only a reflex he's dead.."

Said by the vet after i put my dog to sleep :(:(

Disaster

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Mr. Anderson wrote: »

A wankstain down the duvet of life.

Cockbullet.

Sweet lanterin' Jaysus.

Whore master.

You heard all of those words today? What the hell were you doing?

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#17 13-05-2009 2:51pm

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Mizu_Ger wrote: »

You heard all of those words today? What the hell were you doing?

Must have been in the public gallery of the Dail or something.

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#18 13-05-2009 3:18pm

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the word galevanting.... or however you spell it... ie) off actin the maggit

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"Give the little bollox a battering"

Written on a note accompanying a bold 5 year old who had been sent out of his classroom.
Primary teachers are the funniest people ever.

Fact.

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Mizu_Ger wrote: »

You heard all of those words today? What the hell were you doing?

maybe they were at the AIB shareholders meeting...

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#21 13-05-2009 3:55pm

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Dord wrote: »

"Kindly do the needful"

:mad:

Were you convienced today?
Or intimated? (sounds kinda durty)

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As usual, Prison is a bastion of all things hilariously profane

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#24 13-05-2009 4:22pm

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Rebelheart wrote: »

Just heard a guy on RTÉ Radio 1 use the word "karfuffle". I'm not sure of its spelling, but I gather it means something like rí rá agus ruaile buaile/commotion.

He then went on, dismissively recounting somebody's opinion with the words 'mar dhéa!"

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#25 13-05-2009 4:30pm

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Trev M wrote: »

Palarva ...Pulava whatever the fcuk , loadsa of people are saying it , personally Ive never come across it before...where has it come from?

I think thats Palavas, refering to one being palavas drunk.

An a lad at work says "bullifits" when refering to how drunk he was. He's from Monaghan.

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#26 13-05-2009 4:55pm

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raptorman wrote: »

I think thats Palavas, refering to one being palavas drunk.

An a lad at work says "bullifits" when refering to how drunk he was. He's from Monaghan.

palaver.
it means the same thing thing as kerfuffle

ie

whats all the palaver about?

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#27 17-05-2009 1:13am

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'He's after his dinner' (lit. 'tá sé tar éis a dhinnéir') - always throws the non-Irish!

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I went to college in d'country...I was in 3rd year before I knew what 'Fodder' meant.

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'c**thook'

'go boil your head' that was from falling for a dancer but my sis and i always remember it as a stupid funny insult

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#31 17-05-2009 2:50am

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Saibh wrote: »

Tosserette

How PC.

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SoupyNorman wrote: »

How PC.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055559638

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#33 17-05-2009 5:08am

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Poxbottle.
Hadn't heard it in years, overheard it being said today.

And someone on another forum had only today discovered the phrase 'fcukin' A' and thought it was the best phrase ever. I lol'd.

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#34 17-05-2009 8:20am

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pwned. WTF is wrong with you people?

I pwned him or I owned him.

I heard two guys walking down the street saying "PWN" "PWN" "PWN". I wanted to slap some sense into them.

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#35 17-05-2009 8:39am

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Berty wrote: »

pwned. WTF is wrong with you people?

I pwned him or I owned him.

I heard two guys walking down the street saying "PWN" "PWN" "PWN". I wanted to slap some sense into them.

No need to slap, just call them "noobs" and tell them to "S-T-F-U"

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My friend was telling me about a lady he once had 'relations' with. Apparently, 'She had a fanny like a busted sofa'.

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#37 17-05-2009 7:08pm

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Anybody ever hear Dubliners refer to somebody as a 'baluba'?

I've heard it a fair few times, but it was only in that Cathal O'Shannon programme on the Congo some years ago that I found out the Baluba was the name of the African tribe that attacked the Irish UN troops in 1960, killing 9 of them. Story here:

http://www.military.ie/overseas/ops/africa/onuc/index.htm

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Christ on a bicycle.

Try it.

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#39 17-05-2009 7:35pm

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Rebelheart wrote: »

Anybody ever hear Dubliners refer to somebody as a 'baluba'?

I've heard it a fair few times, but it was only in that Cathal O'Shannon programme on the Congo some years ago that I found out the Baluba was the name of the African tribe that attacked the Irish UN troops in 1960, killing 9 of them. Story here:

http://www.military.ie/overseas/ops/africa/onuc/index.htm

Ive heard and used the phrase "baluba's drunk" so many times. Never knew where it came from. Great enlightenment

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"Threw the head"

"Actin the cannister "

"This cnunt was actin the cannister so I threw the head on him !"

Overheard in Talbot Street....

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Berty wrote: »

pwned. WTF is wrong with you people?

I pwned him or I owned him.

I heard two guys walking down the street saying "PWN" "PWN" "PWN". I wanted to slap some sense into them.

how is pwned pronounced?

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s-cogan wrote: »

how is pwned pronounced?

powned i think
Anyone who talks like that deserves to be slapped....hard.......with a shovel

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hows de moth = how is the girlfriend

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#44 17-05-2009 9:29pm

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FearDark wrote: »

Christ on a bicycle.

Try it.

Reminds me of 'Look at the head on that fella and the price of turnips'

I haven't heard either of them in years, but they certainly make a conversation more colourful.

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#45 18-05-2009 12:40am

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Oh that fella's as odd as two left feet.

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#46 18-05-2009 12:44am

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Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Anyone who talks like that deserves to be slapped....hard.......with a shovel

That's not a slap, that's...murder.

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#47 18-05-2009 12:45am

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"All mouth and trousers". What the hell does that mean? Kind of think I know ......

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#48 18-05-2009 12:49am

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Broad wrote: »

"All mouth and trousers". What the hell does that mean? Kind of think I know ......

Reacts emotionally to events rather than processing it through a lovely logistical filter.

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#49 18-05-2009 1:02am

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Broad wrote: »

"All mouth and trousers". What the hell does that mean? Kind of think I know ......

i think its "all mouth and no trousers" ie talk the talk but cant walk the walk/back it up yano?

s**temerchant is a personal favourite

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#50 18-05-2009 2:56pm

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'All mouth and no trousers' is an excellent turn of phrase, C-Shore. I last heard that maybe five years ago from one of my more cultured elderly neighbours whose descriptions of people and life are unparalleled.:)

Brouhaha and Hullabaloo, both cognate with 'rí rá agus ruaile buaile', are another two you'd hear regularly enough.

Brouhaha has the following interesting etymology according to:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=b&p=19

'from Fr. brouhaha (1552), said to have been, in medieval theater, "the cry of the devil disguised as clergy." Perhaps from Heb. barukh habba' "blessed be the one who comes," used on public occasions.'

Hullaballoo has been given this etymology: '1762, hollo-ballo "uproar," chiefly in northern England and Scot., perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hollo (see hello), also according to: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hullabaloo

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me and me mate had to go shop me and with his gf she askd him to go get ampons he walked up and roard i cant find the GEE BULLITS
i broke me billix laughin so hard

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