Irish expressions and slang.

21-09-2009 5:06pm

Giving out yards!

Do a search on boards for Irish slang" theres more threads than in an old shirt here!

kumate_champ07 · 21-09-2009 5:41pm

"I cannot recall the quantity of cash in the brown envelope"

Jim236 · 21-09-2009 5:59pm

Novella wrote: »

My granny always used to call me "a wee blackguard". There's another one I can't remember now!

Its blaggard not blackguard lol.

Flying Abruptly wrote: »

Using any word to mean you were drunk and it making perfect sense:
Eg1: Did you get drunk last night?
Are you joking? I was totally gazebo'd!

Eg2: Are you planning on having a few drinks?
Oh, I'm gonna go out and get totally car parked...

Eg3: You should have seen me last night; ****ing pjyamas'd...

Who do you know that actually talks like that???

_blank_ · 21-09-2009 6:08pm

Jim236 wrote: »

Its blaggard not blackguard lol.

Um, it's actually blackguard.

ejmaztec · 21-09-2009 6:08pm

Jim236 wrote: »

Its blaggard not blackguard lol.

Tisn't.

Novella · 21-09-2009 6:10pm

Jim236 wrote: »

Its blaggard not blackguard lol.

I'm afraid you're wrong. :P It is actually "blackguard".

El Guapo! · 21-09-2009 6:18pm

The party in me free gaf last night was bleedin rapid. Jono was S-hooked and puked his ring up all over the new floor me ma got off Lino Ritchie. The sh1tebag even had a slash on me dog. She's goin to knock de b0llox out of me when she gets back from Sante Ponsa.

dunnomede? · 21-09-2009 6:31pm

A burl/berrel is a curl or ringlet which can be found in a girls hair

Sharpshooter · 21-09-2009 6:46pm

"Get up the yard", is one I've not heard in a long time.
Also " Me oul Flower".

walshb · 21-09-2009 6:48pm

Ask me bollix is a great one.
That's a load of me bollix, another great one
I will in me bollix, also another great one

Generally anything with bollix in it is real Irish, or more so, real Dub!

kincsem · 21-09-2009 6:51pm

We're only in the arse of the garden = We are low life, not entitled to anything, although we probably deserve recognition and reward.
There are no flies on the Lamb of God - I have performed brilliantly, exceeding my own and your expectations.
Hacked up or won in a hack canter - my horse won easily.
Get away with ya - you are exaggerating

seanybiker · 21-09-2009 6:52pm

get out a da garden.
Hows she cutting?
Now your sucking diesel.

Jim236 · 21-09-2009 6:59pm

Des wrote: »

Um, it's actually blackguard.

ejmaztec wrote: »

Tisn't.

Novella wrote: »

I'm afraid you're wrong. :P It is actually "blackguard".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blaggard

Gang of Gin · 21-09-2009 7:04pm

Novella wrote: »

I'm afraid you're wrong. :P It is actually "blackguard".

It is, but I'd say he was highlighting our unique way of pronouncing it - I assume he was spelling it the way we say it.

breadandjam · 21-09-2009 7:08pm

Both blackguard and Blaggard are acceptable spellings.

"What's the Johnny Magory?"

"What's the Jackanory?"

"Story?"

"Ask me Gee"

chin_grin · 21-09-2009 7:19pm

breadandjam wrote: »

"Ask me Gee"

Axe me bollix.

http://www.irishslang.co.za/print.htm

neil_hosey · 21-09-2009 8:08pm

Me Granda walking by Dublin Castle showed me the statue of Justice that sits on the spot where you walk in... and he said an old expression when the brits were in charge that he heard of was:

"Justice, there she stands upon her station with her face to the crown and her arse to the nation!"...

dunnomede? · 21-09-2009 8:14pm

Dunno if this has been posted already apologies if it has.

I will in me swiss: I will in me swiss roll: I will in me hole

I will ya! (sarcasticly)

breadandjam · 21-09-2009 8:39pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Axe me bollix.

"Ask me arse and call tomorrow for the change"

"Fcuk you and yer friends in America"

Ann22 · 21-09-2009 8:48pm

breadandjam wrote: »

Both blackguard and Blaggard are acceptable spellings.

"What's the Johnny Magory?"

"What's the Jackanory?"

"Story?

Is that not Cockney rhyming slang? I too heard 'blaggard' often, I assumed it was a mispronounciation of 'blackguard'.
My mother had words no one else uses..like 'gomb' as in 'he's a big stupid gomb. Maybe it derived from 'gormless' to 'gorm' and my ma pronounced it 'gomb'...or maybe it came from 'gombeen'.