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Interesting words and phrases you've heard today

  • 13-05-2009 12:54pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Spastafarian


    Cockgiblet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis


    A wankstain down the duvet of life.

    Cockbullet.

    Sweet lanterin' Jaysus.

    Whore master.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭Trev M


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,640 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    "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.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    "Kindly do the needful"

    :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭beerbaron


    Dord wrote: »
    "Kindly do the needful"

    :mad:

    Was that Santosh or Ravi who said that to you ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭sorrywhat


    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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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,725 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    "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 :(:(:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Feckwanker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭SRFC90


    Real Ale Madrid


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭Trev M


    "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 :(:(:(

    :o Disaster


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭Mizu_Ger


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭starflake


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


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,996 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    "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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Davie_m


    Mizu_Ger wrote: »
    You heard all of those words today? What the hell were you doing?

    maybe they were at the AIB shareholders meeting...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭LouOB


    Dord wrote: »
    "Kindly do the needful"

    :mad:

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    "I'm burstin' for a shíte, the first two inches is cold"

    One schoolgirl to another in McDonalds in Swords today.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,996 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


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

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60230065&postcount=1

    edit:
    :( thread was deleted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    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!"



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭raptorman


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 496 ✭✭s-cogan


    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?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    Tosserette


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭tipex


    '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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Saibh wrote: »
    Tosserette



    How PC.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 Magic8


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,167 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭A_SN


    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" ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    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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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Christ on a bicycle.


    Try it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Seillejet


    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 :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭Fulton Crown


    "Threw the head"

    "Actin the cannister "

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

    Overheard in Talbot Street....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 496 ✭✭s-cogan


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    s-cogan wrote: »
    how is pwned pronounced?
    powned i think
    Anyone who talks like that deserves to be slapped....hard.......with a shovel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    hows de moth = how is the girlfriend


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    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. :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭Broad


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭C-Shore


    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 :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    '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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 mr-aido


    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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