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    #332
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
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    Quid = money. Took me a while to get around that one. Now I am using it myself. When I say it to my friends from UK, they always go "wtf" on me.

    utter rubbish. Almost everyone in the UK uses "quid" to refer to Sterling. I've never heard anyone say "That costs 20 pounds" always "twenty quid".


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    #333
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    blinding wrote: »
    or a rake of this

    Does anyone know how muck a rake of is

    A bit more than a 'lock'. I bought a lock of dem sweets the other day! :)


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    #334
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    P.Walnuts wrote: »
    I was often called a "Ludramon" in my youth, not sure how common that one is.

    ludramon was a common word for where we lived, also, Sleemadoir, silemolly, amadan.


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    #335
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    well boy!
    Well, boy! I tell ya, I've a hankering for some red lead blaas!
    Wibbs wrote: »
    The shore's blocked. Shore meaning drains. More a Dublin one
    Definitely in use in Waterford too.
    Wibbs wrote:
    One that really gets head scratching is if you say someone is being "bold". Makes no sense to non hiberno english speakers.
    IIRC 'dána' means both 'brave' and 'naughty', so it's another example of a direct translation from Irish which doesn't quite make sense in English


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    #336
    COYVB
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    fcuk it it'll do


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    #337
    kingtiger
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    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    People were saying jumper loooooong before that song came out.

    aye, Jumpers for goal posts anyone?

    hers a few I remember from years ago

    That's cat (catmalogen) \ really bad

    Shes hot in her leather \ Woman scantily clad

    Merciful hour look at the state of him \ hes in bad shape

    Look at Lady muck \ Stuck up woman

    The lad has a gammy leg \ his leg is injured


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    #338
    M5
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    A friend got a few strange looks when in a dive bar in Phoenix. He stood up and proclaimed he was going outside to "smoke a fag"


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    #339
    COYVB
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    M5 wrote: »
    A friend got a few strange looks when in a dive bar in Phoenix. He stood up and proclaimed he was going outside to "smoke a fag"

    My boss has been over in Canada a few times and asked to bum a fag. That's always amusing


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    #340
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    M5 wrote: »
    A friend got a few strange looks when in a dive bar in Phoenix. He stood up and proclaimed he was going outside to "smoke a fag"

    I was once told by an English teacher about the time during an internship she did in New York where she walked into the teacher's lounge and asked if anyone had a rubber she could borrow.

    She said she never understood the looks of utter confusion and embarrassment until a colleague later told her that they call them "erasers". Rubbers would be rubber johnies...


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    #341
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    the 'fags" and the 'rubbers" stories are so out-dated they are boring. I think everyone that has left Ireland has had this experience. Just ain't funny any more.

    just saying.....:P


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    #342
    Lawrence1895
    Registered Users Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Larianne wrote: »
    The Australians always got confused when I said "yer man".
    "which man? Who? Huh?" :)

    And one poor German lad never understood when someone was talking about a 'fillim'. When I explained, it solved the mystery of quite a few conversations where he got lost.

    I find 'going to the pictures' much more confusing :D


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    #343
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    ludramon was a common word for where we lived, also, Sleemadoir, silemolly, amadan.

    All Irish words except silemolly possibly.

    They can have different meanings in different parts of the country but...

    Liúdramán = Lazy fool.

    Sliamadór (sp) = Dishonest, untrustworthy person.

    silmolly... no idea

    Amadán = eejit. (not that I needed to explain that one)


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    #344
    ruaille buaille
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭ruaille buaille


    Sconce. As in to have a look at something
    "Ah sure I'll go in and have a sconce around."


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