Irishisms

cucbuc

"give us a slug of that"= can I have some of your drink.

Hooked

Using the word terrible for something that's not?

My Da describing the last race:
Jaysus, that dog ran terrible well.

Or upon hearing someone had died:
He was a terrible nice fella.


And my most explained Limerick-ism...
Tackies!

Are you nearly ready?
Ya, hold on a minute till I throw on my tackies!

Throw on? Even that looks strange now that I think about it!

sheesh

I cannot believe nobody has mentioned 'yerra' or 'yurra'

its our own interjection and can be used in a variety of ways and express a wind range of emotions.

fehenry

“Is it yerself that’s in it? Didn’t ya go home yet?”

Ban Ki Moon

fuukupyacuntya

cucbuc

Hooked wrote: »

Using the word terrible for something that's not?

My Da describing the last race:
Jaysus, that dog ran terrible well.

Or upon hearing someone had died:
He was a terrible nice fella.


And my most explained Limerick-ism...
Tackies!

Are you nearly ready?
Ya, hold on a minute till I throw on my tackies!

Throw on? Even that looks strange now that I think about it!

Also using the word fierce as "very" with words anything but fierce.
He is fierce nice.
She is fierce gentle with dem kids.

But can also be used in the neg:
eg he is a fierce eejit.

fontanalis

Calling all beaches tra.

scientific1982

Donegalism: Aye I know aye.

cc4life

Irishism: wigs on the green (to fight)

BOHtox

I'm not racist but [ insert extremely racist comment here]

Tubsandtiles

When your trying to describe some girl thats big, "size a that one ovar der"

suicide_circus

"Me mate was wearin de face off some wet yoke in de club las nigh" - "my chum shared a kiss with a young lady in a nightclub yesterday evening"

deathrider

"Now in a minute" is one of my favourites.
It means exactly what it says, except without the word "Now". It means I'll do it in a minute, but we love to throw in the now beforehand, making the sentence a complete contradiction of itself.

I've always wanted to make a war movie called Apocalypse Now In A Minute :pac:

RMD

Had a American cousin stay with us for 6 months while he did some of his degree here. He eventually got used to the Dublin way of speaking "gis a look of that" "howiya" "you stallin it". Main problem for him as well was apparently how fast we speak and let words run into one another.

He was completely fúcked though when he went down the country for a month to other relatives. "It's fierce cold" "Whats the craic bhooiy". He didn't even know they were saying boy by the way they were pronouncing it, let alone understand why they were throwing boy on the end of sentences.

LordSutch

"I slept it out" is another Irishism which confuses people outside Ireland, I said it once to my work colleagues in England and they looked slightly puzzled & asked "What did you sleep out"?

They say "I overslept" which is probably more accurate.

Contessa Raven

My dad's girlfriend is from Liverpool and it took her years to get to grips with our phrases. Even now after 8 years, she still laughs when I say "Yeah, I'll do it now in a minute."

She also loves "Howye!" because we say it like it's a statement as opposed to actually asking.

Oh and "Press" is another one. I lived in London for a year last year and my housemates and friends couldn't fathom why I said press. Apparently "Cupboard" makes more grammatical sense!

LordSutch

"Hot press" (Airing cupboard) also confuses the hell out of outsiders

Jesus Wept

cherub rock wrote: »

Here are some great Dublinisms: Crips, hostibal, pasgetti, chimley, drownded, babby, go me toilet/dirt

And "Here, giz a shot o' dat!" when you want a turn of something.

You are doing Dubs a disservice there, it's not a regional thing.

Pace2008

Over two hundred and twenty-nine posts in an no mention of "stall it," a real multi-purpose term, the meanings of which can be diametrically opposed depending on context.

Jesus Wept

Stall the diggeR?

Floodric

Said "spuds" to an Australian. Hadn't a clue what it meant which suprised me.

The Falcon

'Smashin' is a nice one - Derived I'm told from the Irish 'Is maith é sin' (That's good)

Latchy

The term '' Down on my Hunkers '' is something I use to hear a lot as a kid In Dublin but my bro in law from the north side is the only person I know who still uses it .

Use to greet this English girl I knew with '' how's the form ? '' to which she would reply '' but I dont live on a farm '' :pac:

deise go deo

A lot of Irishisms come from Gaeilge, one I heard a few days ago, supposedly common in Tipp, is a 'culakine name' (cool-la-kin-a) meaning choosing a name for a child that was never in the family before. Literally turning your back on your family.

LordSutch

Using 'Jeep' as the generic term is another Irishism, just baught a Nissan 'Jeep'.

In any other country the generic term is 4X4 or SUV, but here everybody seems to talk about their BMW Jeep, or their Nissan Jeep, Land Rover Jeep, etc, even the Gardai use 'Jeep' as the generic, (Gardai are are asking the public to be on the lookout for a red coloured Jeep in connection with) . . . . .

GizAGoOfYerGee

liah wrote: »

"I'm after doing x"

Irish has no pluperfect: instead, "after" is added to the present continuous (a verb ending in "-ing").

The idiom for "I had done X when I did Y" is "I was after doing X when I did Y", modelled on the Irish usage of the compound prepositions i ndiaidh, tar éis, and in éis: bhí mé tar éis/i ndiaidh/in éis X a dhéanamh, nuair a rinne mé Y.

liah wrote: »

"do be"

Some speakers use the verb "to be" in English similarly to how they would in Irish, using a "does be/do be" construction to indicate this latter continuous present:

* "He does be working every day." Bíonn sé ag obair gach lá.
* "They do be talking on their mobiles a lot." Bíonn siad ag caint go leor ar a fóin póca.
* "He does be doing a lot of work at school." Bíonn sé ag déanamh go leor oibre ar scoil.
* "It's him I do be thinking of." Is air a bhíonn mé ag smaoineamh.

liah wrote: »

"craic"

'Crack' is Middle-English loan word to Irish. The Irish speling became 'craic'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

TemptationWaits

Yerra sure t'was grand.
He has his codding cap on! (something my granny says)
Ah the cratur.
Get away outta that!
I will yeah.
C'mere to me.
I will in my arse.
I'm breaking my ****e.
Ah ya gob****e.
The gaatch on him.
The head on him.
She had no meas in it. (She had no interest in it)
T'was gas.
He's after breaking it.

mrsdewinter

The Falcon wrote: »

'Smashin' is a nice one - Derived I'm told from the Irish 'Is maith é sin' (That's good)

No way? That's from Gaeilge? Thought it was an English saying that migrated here. But that's actually pretty cool

Captain Pillowcase

Stall the ball

Ah he/she(etc) is bet down (as ugly as sin)

ye wha'?

I will in me ar(s)e or ask me ar(s)e and let me know if you get an answer

Deadly buzz

Rapid

The gob on that

Ger outta town

Shut yer face

Put the delph in the press (loved that away, no-one got it at all!)

And the one that people from here when talking, "ah sure yer wan there was with yer man and whats his face was with that yolk from blah de blah" or "you know that thing for the yolk" and you always know what the mean, know wha' I mean?????

Lick it off a scabby leg, (loves drink)

He hasn't stones in his pocket

And for the Canadians:)......Met you at half 7.....when I was there all I got was blank stares and this was followed by, no I will meet you at 7 thirty, yeah I just said that!

Do ye wan' yer go??? (Normally from someone who wants to fight you)

GizAGoOfYerGee

mrsdewinter wrote: »

No way? That's from Gaeilge? Thought it was an English saying that migrated here. But that's actually pretty cool

Phoney comes from fáinne, meaning ring: A cheap-ass ring that Irish emmigrants flogged to the Yanks.

Smithereens comes from smiodarín / smidrín: meaning 'little bits'.

Galore comes from Go Leor: Plenty.

There are many more, but these ones are confirmed.