Regional Slang

Killer Wench

In another thread, I wrote, "Gee, I'm tired of my penis" or something along those lines and I saw a few comments about the term "gee". I had no idea that it has a different connotation in Ireland than in the US. In the US, it generally equates to someone who's pondering something as in "gee, I don't know."

I guess that's why I got a few funny looks from my co-workers a few days back. :pac:

thehairyelbow

Yippppeee............. this is gonna be fun...

El Weirdo

Killer Wench wrote: »

In another thread, I wrote, "Gee, I'm tired of my penis" or something along those lines and I saw a few comments about the term "gee". I had no idea that it has a different connotation in Ireland than in the US. In the US, it generally equates to someone who's pondering something as in "gee, I don't know."

I guess that's why I got a few funny looks from my co-workers a few days back. :pac:

Pronounced differently. One is a hard "g" the other soft.

Latchy

Just like fanny in USA has different meaning in Ireland / UK

SadieSue

Gee with a hard G (lol) is slang for the lady parts. I saw that post and had a giggle.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Just wait until you say "yeah I rode yer ma up the gicker"

cml387

benwavner wrote: »

Just wait until you say "yeah I rode yer ma up the gicker"

or "gowl"

themadchef

Why are you tired of your Mickey?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

In Castlebar people tend to say "That's bertie!" if something is a bit "mad"
No one else get's it, they look around for the weasel ahern

Latchy

There's a famous 60's band called Hermans Hermits but in some parts of north west/north east England they are refered to as '' Ermins Ermits '' ...


cracks me up whenever I hear it

cml387

themadchef wrote: »

Why are you tired of your Mickey?

She has "issues".It's best not to ask.

Rds1989

in donegal a nice car is called a quare yock, your mother is your oul doll and theres a load more

theboss80

Rds1989 wrote: »

in donegal a nice car is called a quare yock, your mother is your oul doll and theres a load more

Wain = child

Wile = very ie ITs wile cold hi

Brae = hill

Hill = Bog

kfallon

"Ya geebag"

Best. Phrase. Ever.

ImpossibleDuck

theboss80 wrote: »

Wain = child

Wile = very ie ITs wile cold hi

Brae = hill

Hill = Bog

This.

Jaysus I love Donegal slang like a completely different language up here.

To an American "Aye sure wasn't it a wile hanlin"

Cue absolute bemusement :P

And another one this is used up here in inishowen and in the north too i think; One word: Arn'tenya? = Are you not?

Arn'tenya going the pub th'mara? :P

Oranage2

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

thebman

Oranage2 wrote: »

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

I'd expect nothing less from an Orange Man. Someone beat you to the number one spot eh?

No wonder when you come out with crap like that :pac:

IrishEyes19

Oranage2 wrote: »

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

Your spelling of country is wrong, might want to cross education/reading/writing of the list there :cool:

catweasel10

In Belfast a poke = ice-cream with a flake in it. It means something entirely different where I'm from.

fontanalis

theboss80 wrote: »

Wain = child

Wile = very ie ITs wile cold hi

Brae = hill

Hill = Bog

In order of size
fair bit
good bit
brave bit

Paddy Cow

Oranage2 wrote: »

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

As a person from Achill, here's how I understand those words:

Dub - Person from Dublin. Usually of sound disposition but the odd one in an attempt to be clever and funny will show themselves up as semi-literate and inarticulate
Car - Mechanical vehicle to travel from place to place
Education/reading/writing - Learning the skills to comminicate your thoughts to other people in a clear and concise manner
Foreign holiday - Holiday outside of Ireland and the UK

Your post had potential to be funny but the execution was poor :P

mr biazzi

Has Tuam Been mentioned?

jclally

Growing up in clare, everyone called runners "tackies". Never heard it anywhere else.

I met a friend of my dads from mayo on all ireland day a few years back, and ur told me him and my dad "were like ****e on a blanket".... I was worried til someone told me it meant inseperable.

Bring your own blankets if youre ever in belmullet....

sollar

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

To an American "Aye sure wasn't it a wile hanlin"

Wile is a word that seems to have many meanings.

If someone says - wasn't it terrible about what happened to aul francie

The response in donegal could be.... aye wile sir! meaning yeah it was terrible.

or

I heard francie hit paddy last night - Aye, he hit him a wile slap.

or

wile cold, wile far, its a wile distance, wile carry on last night.

WindSock

What happened that rapper named gee bag? Seems to have gone from the net.

Zebra3

A meat tea is some sort of meal boggers apparently feast on during days out up to the big Shmoke for whatever happens in Croker.

deisedevil

In Waterford the use of the word wicked.

It's wicked bad. It's wicked good. It's a wicked shame. Your wicked thick.

I think a lot of counties do something similar. Like in Wexford and some other counties they use Quer instead of wicked and in Donegal as said above they use Wile.

TaraFoxglove

Is 'scan' a nationwide thing? Pronounced sshkan.

Is used in Connaught a lot.

WesternZulu

TaraFoxglove wrote: »

Is 'scan' a nationwide thing? Pronounced sshkan.

Is used in Connaught a lot.

It's just a West of Ireland thing.

As is "Howya now sskkan"

fuerte1976

Down here I call homosexuals 'crafty butchers'.
They like to take their meat in around the back...

(not homophobic btw)

I've plenty more too

brummytom

'So you found us then?' 'Eventually, I've been all round the Rekin!'

Gambole = a forward roll
Outdoor = Off-licence
Island = Roundabout

Apparently 'Mardy's a Brum word too, but that seems quite a well-known word now.
And apparently 'cob' is unique to Birmingham (as in a bread roll).

Mike 1972

catweasel10 wrote: »

In Belfast a poke = ice-cream with a flake in it.

I know a guy who got flame grilled for disparaging comments posted on the interweb about "Black taxi drivers" by posters who didnt realise that in Belfast the term refers to the colour of the Vehicle rather than the driver.

Hookah

In Dundalk; saying 'Our', as in 'Our fella', generally a brother, but extended to encompass any male acquaintance.

Thus, 'How's things, our?', or 'Alright, our.'

pakb1ue

Wetzer = Hot girl

Me and my mates heard Dublin scumbags using this and we thought it was hilarious. So we start saying it taking piss only to find that we ended up using for when we weren't taking the piss. Such a horrible word, but none of my friends from my home town or Belfast know what it means.

flahavaj

Oranage2 wrote: »

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

How witty and original.

Dennis the Stone

deisedevil wrote: »

In Waterford the use of the word wicked.

It's wicked bad. It's wicked good. It's a wicked shame. Your wicked thick.

I think a lot of counties do something similar. Like in Wexford and some other counties they use Quer instead of wicked and in Donegal as said above they use Wile.

Well boy, how's the lack? Are you going into town at all?

yupyup7up

Limerick slang,

"A by de kid!" - informal hello
"tackies" - runners/trainers
"daysent" - decent. just the flat accent causes this
any phrase with the word "steam" in it means gay.
"gowlbag" - just a generic insult
"spacer" - someone who is away with the fairies...

ImpossibleDuck

TaraFoxglove wrote: »

Is 'scan' a nationwide thing? Pronounced sshkan.

Is used in Connaught a lot.

Nope, never heard it used up here. Meaning?

Aoifey!

We have some quare weird words in Wexford.

FinnLizzy

I noticed in Donegal and Castlebar, they say 'feek' instead of 'shift'... I honestly don't know how it never reached Sligo on its way down to Castlebar!
I don't know about other places, but Sligo use the word 'fierce' in the same way as 'very'.
"Jaysus, He's fierce ghey!"

biko

Killer Wench wrote: »

Regional Slang
In another thread, I wrote, "Gee, I'm tired of my penis" or something along those lines and I saw a few comments about the term "gee". I had no idea that it has a different connotation in Ireland than in the US.

This might come as a shock but Ireland isn't a region of the US...

Killer Wench

biko wrote: »

This might come as a shock but Ireland isn't a region of the US...

OMG! Like for real? I totally did miss that. I like for sure thought this was a new state that I had to fly 8 hours to and provide my passport and answer questions at the immigration bureau.

pragmatic1

FinnLizzy wrote: »

I noticed in Donegal and Castlebar, they say 'feek' instead of 'shift'... I honestly don't know how it never reached Sligo on its way down to Castlebar!
I don't know about other places, but Sligo use the word 'fierce' in the same way as 'very'.
"Jaysus, He's fierce ghey!"

I'm from Donegal and I've never heard feek used instead of shift.

Aoifey!

pragmatic1 wrote: »

I'm from Donegal and I've never heard feek used instead of shift.

I've heard it used in Wexford, but not much.

NotExactly

FinnLizzy wrote: »

I noticed in Donegal and Castlebar, they say 'feek' instead of 'shift'... I honestly don't know how it never reached Sligo on its way down to Castlebar!

pragmatic1 wrote: »

I'm from Donegal and I've never heard feek used instead of shift.

I'm from Castlebar and everybody uses the word feek although shift is being used more and more as time goes on.

Duff

Few mates of mine from Tip use ''feek'' as in the ride.

ImpossibleDuck

pragmatic1 wrote: »

I'm from Donegal and I've never heard feek used instead of shift.

Same.

Hookah

Duff wrote: »

Few mates of mine from Tip use ''feek'' as in the ride.

I heard it from a fella in Tallaght, pre-Feeky McGee of course.

Rds1989

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

Same.

Same as that, maybe yer man heard it from somebody near the sligo border, im from the laggan

theboss80

biko wrote: »

This might come as a shock but Ireland isn't a region of the US...

Yet...

IrishEyes19

WesternZulu wrote: »

It's just a West of Ireland thing.

As is "Howya now sskkan"

Never heard it when I was growing up in Galway/Mayo, but I think its very popular around sligo area.