Cork words you just don't hear anymore

Owen

For anyone who doesn't know, Cork has it's own ridiculously large amount of slang. At one point it had a pidgeon english language used on the Coal Quay called Fishmongers Language too (My Grandmother used to speak it all the time), but that's long since gone. There's a book on cork slang by Sean Beecher which is well worth a read, and boardsie dahamsta has a website version up online too (AFAIK, he's related to the author).

Was googling it last night, and it came to me - there's a load of words we used to use we don't really anymore. When was the last time you heard a scummy kid called a wah, or a scobe? I haven't heard anyone say feen or beoir in a long time either.

Anyone else got words which would have been used in Cork that aren't anymore?

Red Hand

I thought scobe was in Dublin too? I've heard it on and off, not only restricted to Cork. And not directed at me either, just to point out!

rebel.ranter

Here's another Book written by Morty McCarthy, he of Sultans of Ping fame!

http://www.dowtchaboy.com/index.htm


I gave a copy of it to a Greek guy that worked in the office as he hadn't a clue what we were talking about. A funny moment followed one Friday afternoon when the office was very quiet, everybody finishing off work for the weekend he pipes up with the following, in his best greek accent:

"Guys. Are you going on the ran tan this evening?"

Everyone burst out laughing because it was just out of the blue!

number10a

rebel.ranter wrote: »

Here's another Book written by Morty McCarthy, he of Sultans of Ping fame!

http://www.dowtchaboy.com/index.htm

I have this book too. It's brilliant! My favourite one is for sausage - a widow's memory!! :pac::pac::pac: Anyone ever actally hear it used?? Can't say I have.

deRanged

scobe would be quite common I'd have thought.
gowl would be one I don't hear these days.

I never heard anyone use feen or beoir when I was growing up.

Cadyboo

Lads you obviously don't be in the northside or work with anyone from the northside because gowl, feen, beour, wah are always used. Hate beour! Often hear godloom from a guy I work with, so annoying.
Don't hear anyone going on a jag anymore!?

Ludo

I actually heard someone refer to a colleague as a gowl in the office yesterday...thought to myself that there's a word I hadn;t heard in a long time.

Jointed is another one I haven;t heard in ages.

deRanged

deRanged wrote: »

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I never heard anyone use feen or beoir when I was growing up.

Seriously?

Cadyboo wrote: »

Lads you obviously don't be in the northside or work with anyone from the northside because gowl, feen, beour, wah are always used. .............

They're hardly unique to the Northside.

gimmick

Cadyboo wrote: »

Lads you obviously don't be in the northside or work with anyone from the northside because gowl, feen, beour, wah are always used. Hate beour! Often hear godloom from a guy I work with, so annoying.
Don't hear anyone going on a jag anymore!?

Godloom? Always thought that was "Ah Galloooooon ba". Herad a young fella say it recently and almost fell over with amusement. First time I had heard it said in 20 years Id say.

I have heard jag quite a bit recently actually.

"Gatch". I still use that and get looked at silly more often that not.

deRanged

RoverJames wrote: »

Seriously?

yeah. I'm not from the city though, so maybe that's why.

Milly33

Ah cork slang is great...I never knew that a lot of words were Cork related until I went away and people were like where did you hear that...Love the word plawmaser (dont know if that is the correct spellling) that may be just a Irish word in general too

babo9

Lads, what age are ye roughly?
I'm mid twenties and feen, beoir, wa, scope and jointed were common growing up!
I still use and hear jointed regularly. I use and hear wa and scope sometimes. I hear/use feen rarely, usually if ever imitating a "mad feen" !

Beoir I mostly use with one friend who absolutely hates the term :P

What about "gombean", or is that just a random term in my head!

Buataisi

I still hear beoir and scobe used around Limerick

gimmick

Our cats name is Beour. My inlaws had a tom cat whose name was Sham.

I shít you not.

poconnor16

Referring to someone as a 'fla', generally lead to your friend asking their friend if the 'fla' will 'go way with you'.

poconnor16

gimmick wrote: »

Our cats name is Beour. My inlaws had a tom cat whose name was Sham.

I shít you not.

Daysent.

langdang

poconnor16 wrote: »

Referring to someone as a 'fla', generally lead to your friend asking their friend if the 'fla' will 'go way with you'.

Ya, definitely one that I use to hear used a lot but not anymore. Although it would be creepy if I was still at teen discos I suppose!

curly from cork

giving someone a 50 was regular in our vocab as was describing the local hunk as a gawser. if you were very lucky you got a jag off him . then if it became a regular thing you were jagging happy days !!

deRanged

deRanged wrote: »

yeah. I'm not from the city though, so maybe that's why.

That might explain it, if you were from the City (anywhere not just the Northside) you'd have heard and probably used them all.

Balmed Out

lamp - see, lamp yer wan over there
crabitt - smart in a sneaky way
knavshawling - kid giving out
smedger - pervert
chalk it down - im in agreement
stall the beans - wait

some of these im sure arent just cork and may still be widely, i just dont hear them anymore

Cadyboo

Ludo wrote: »

I actually heard someone refer to a colleague as a gowl in the office yesterday...thought to myself that there's a word I hadn;t heard in a long time.

Jointed is another one I haven;t heard in ages.

Do I work with you? Ha. Always use both those words!

poconnor16 wrote: »

Daysent.

Always use this.

Balmed Out wrote: »

lamp - see, lamp yer wan over there
crabitt - smart in a sneaky way
knavshawling - kid giving out
smedger - pervert
chalk it down - im in agreement
stall the beans - wait

some of these im sure arent just cork and may still be widely, i just dont hear them anymore

Never heard those two, but do hear the other ones.

You wouldn't realise the amount of words you use that others rarely hear or know what they mean. I work with quite a few from Cobh and a lot of those words they don't have a clue about.

discostu1

Lapsi Pa.....The great Cork undiagnosable disease, you see a fellow walking down the road and he is limbing/has a dropped shoulder/a guzz eye (another great Cork one) My grandmother would say "Him he have a touch of the Lapsi Pa"

How about the rhyme "In Clankittan where the fleas ate the man"

"Give me a gooks at that magazine i.e give me a look at it.
Give us the ux ( the core of an apple)
Any one want to tell me where Timber Cross is (its on the SOuthside)
He was stowshush (very drunk) Three sheets in the wind (same thing)
She/ he is a lash (a fine thing)

discostu1

discostu1 wrote: »

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Any one want to tell me where Timber Cross is (its on the SOuthside)...........

Victoria Cross ish?

discostu1

Anyone know where Timber Cross is

Victoria Cross ish?

Nope where Evergreen street meets Tower street, and Quaker road

discostu1

Twas like Lunhams i.e there was a lot of blood e.g after a fight or even after cutting yourself shaving. Lunhams used to make sausages and hams

kub

Owen wrote: »

For anyone who doesn't know, Cork has it's own ridiculously large amount of slang. At one point it had a pidgeon english language used on the Coal Quay called Fishmongers Language too (My Grandmother used to speak it all the time), but that's long since gone. There's a book on cork slang by Sean Beecher which is well worth a read, and boardsie dahamsta has a website version up online too (AFAIK, he's related to the author).

Was googling it last night, and it came to me - there's a load of words we used to use we don't really anymore. When was the last time you heard a scummy kid called a wah, or a scobe? I haven't heard anyone say feen or beoir in a long time either.

Anyone else got words which would have been used in Cork that aren't anymore?

Cemer feen did ya ever have a gawk at d PROC boy?

discostu1

Gawk used also mean to vomit,
"I had a bad pint and I got the gawk" dont hear that much anymore

kub

You are correct, its one that always interests me, unless of course it is spelt differently.

Or it a different context.

He Gawked up.....he vomited,
Have a Gawk at that there willa.....look at that there will you.

Anyone out there know for sure?

kub

I recall a BBC show from years back. They were doing a documentary about the English language and how it was spoken differently in other places.

So they arrive out to Murphys brewery in Blackpool. They got one of the lads who worked on the production line to explain the brewing process.

It was pure class, they put up sub titles across the bottom of the screen while the poor guy was speaking........like

Ludo

I know one person who uses a lot of these words regularly and he isn't even from cork. He is from Limerick.

Do_Lers

I'd the Gawks awful bad lastnight
Shes some Gomie
Hes an awful langball that fella
Shes a LASH
Would ya goway ya mog

JaneHudson

Today FM has since ruined 'Gawk' for me. I can't hear it without thinking "...all over me walnut dash."

newbee22

The one thing I miss about working in the northside is that us southsiders don't speak Corkonain the way they do! I do notice my teenage sister and her friends using daycent a lot but that is just about what I hear now!

gimmick

kub wrote: »

Cemer feen did ya ever have a gawk at d PROC boy?

Careful now.....

cornbb

Wah, beour, gowl and skobe were all used in Limerick too when I lived there. Not some of the other ones mentioned here though. Keep it up

trynabe

anyone remeber l.o.b ,,youd say it when the law was spotted if you were up to no good L,O,B L,O,B
or mebbs was a word to describe ur balls as in <<< i will in me mebbs //
sham alive was another
ive millions bein northside meself and me n me friends use em now 4 a laugh
gettin a 50 from an ol doll was getting stood up by her
mouldy drunk
kicked to death was another favourite

johnayo

My wan is gone shoppin. My wife is shopping.

He is a right Spadgie.

ShamFeen

I remember a chat on 96fm before about it, think it was Prendo or Mick Mul. Someone rang in, presenter: "What's your word caller?", Caller "Gowan". "Can you put that in a sentence?", "Gowan outta that ya gowl!" A little while later same caller unnoticed by presenter "Word is smee" Same question, "Smee again ya langer!" Cork humour, can't bate it!!!!

Dixie Chick

This thread is so funny, I use all those words all the time cos I just love Cork slang!!

So did ya meet your manno last night for your jag?
Nah girl he gave me a 50!

Scabby- mean
Langy- hang off the back of the bus or hop into a taxi and not pay
Mockeeah- fake
My cot- my bed
Tommy bolla- load of crap
A monkey- 500 euros


Then my dad has this whole phrase he usees and finishes himself..like if he got a bargain somewhere he would say "bate it?, you couldnt!"

Poppies- potatoes, it always surprises me no on knows this outside cork!

Gowl/mog/spa/mongo

Bogwash- wetting teh tip of a shared fag!

Gat- are you going gatting tonoght? Dont mind him he is full of gat!

cjmcork

Ludo wrote: »

I actually heard someone refer to a colleague as a gowl in the office yesterday...thought to myself that there's a word I hadn;t heard in a long time.

Jointed is another one I haven;t heard in ages.

there's a sign for the River Gowl just after the Cullahill bypass on the Cork / Dublin road.......some day I'm gonna take a pic of me standing next to it in a PRC t-shirt and post it on my f/b page!:p

discostu1

Bazzer a hair cut

Rubber dollies an early version of sneakers,

dhoun

Feen and beoir sound like mockeyah words to me. Never heard them when I was growing up ...

cjmcork

feen and biore are as much Cork as the Lee.........I'm scarle' for ya!:D

harry21

I worked with a fella years ago and he used to say 'pass me da fandangle' meaning pass me the 'insert random object'.

Still use it myself. Anyone?

dhoun

'That's me daza' (as in that's bril) is a real old one.

dhoun

'whatchamacallit'

johnayo

where's the fuji-baa

johnayo

I'm hitting the sack.(off to bed)

dhoun

johnayo wrote: »

where's the fuji-baa

That's a new one on me ....

mik_da_man

This may be one that people on here still use but I am totally confused by it...

"Your Haunted" - meaning your very lucky
I have never heard it in any other part of the country but seems to be used by a few people I work with.

Anyone know how that one came about?

Always reckoned it was coined from having a little bit of good spirits on your side, sort of "someone" looking after you thing.