Where only an Irish word will do...

AskMyChocolate

So AHers,

I arrive home last night, drunk as a wheelbarrow, and decide to finally put a bulb in that light. Needless to say, I topple forward off the chair I'm standing on and proceed to "hop" my head off the radiator.

If I was sober,less determined, or less belligerent, I probably just would have "bumped" my head. It's far less painful I believe.

So, as the thread title asks; are Irish verbs more painful than their English counterparts?

It would be a fairly narrow thread, so, I am opening it up to all Irish words that you'd use to describe something.

Choco

smash

'Hop' isn't an Irish verb... :P

BlueBaron

smash wrote: »

'Hop' isn't an Irish verb... :P

Get no 'Hop' off you at all!!!

Micky Dolenz

eejit.

smash

frig

CreepingDeath

shitehawk

Bigcheeze

"Meas" doesn't really have an English equivalent that captures its meaning.

AskMyChocolate

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

I arrive home last night, drunk as a wheelbarrow

Ah I do miss Ireland sometimes.

Death and Taxes

Amadhan (did I even spell that right, amadhan that I am)

IK09

same with "fian", it means a kind of demented cow

AnonoBoy

Schadenfraude

spankysue

You're still drunk op aren't you, as drunk as a small cart with one wheel at the front, two handles at the back that's typically used for transporting small loads

Logical_Bear

'gowl'

as in 'christ she had a horrible gowl on her'

Dravokivich

Bigcheeze wrote: »

"Meas" doesn't really have an English equivalent that captures its meaning.

Google translate says "respect," how far off is that?

bodice ripper

eejit

IK09

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Schadenfraude

aawww i dont get it

Sergeant

My head is cat malojian after drinking 12 pints last night.

9959

Zeitgeist

neil_hosey

Bigcheeze wrote: »

"Meas" doesn't really have an English equivalent that captures its meaning.

yes it does, it means respect

amdublin

Flathiulach

IrishExpat

This may well be a pure local word (Kildare):

Boody or Boodyman: 'He's some boody-man.'

A strange fella.

mike65

Banjaxed

starlings

that hop you took will put a bit of smacht on you, OP, ya pleidhc!

Rasheed

To 'plámas' someone.

To make a 'hames' of something.

Jaxxy

"Fagan" came up recently, used by my dad.

I've a pain in me Fagan. She pulled the Fagan off me. Aul Fagan was happy to see that. Don't forget to give Fagan a shake when you're done.

smash

Jaxxy wrote: »

"Fagan" came up recently, used by my dad.

I've a pain in me Fagan. She pulled the Fagan off me. Aul Fagan was happy to see that. Don't forget to give Fagan a shake when you're done.

I've only ever heard Fagan being used as a surname.

IrishExpat

Used best with sarcasm: Well, a big Búladh Bos to you.

Jaxxy

smash wrote: »

I've only ever heard Fagan being used as a surname.

According to him it's an old Dublin saying, but he and his brothers and circle of friends use it a lot. I asked him where it came from, he had no idea.

9959

All of the below according to some crackpot American researcher with a book to sell, a Celtic fire burning in his loins, and a faux Irish surname such as: MacKellymurphy or O' Marxy

Chagrin
Intermezzo
Haggis
Schmuck
Tiffin
Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali
Rock 'n' Roll
Vindaloo
Kamikaze
Unicycle
Duck Billed Platypus
The Acropolis
Bayern Munich etc.

Bigcheeze

neil_hosey wrote: »

yes it does, it means respect

For feck sake I know there's a translation. I'm saying the translation doesn't capture its meaning.

starlings

9959 wrote: »

All of the below according to some crackpot American researcher with a book to sell, a Celtic fire burning in his loins, and a faux Irish surname such as: MacKellymurphy or O' Marxy

Chagrin
Intermezzo
Haggis
Schmuck
Tiffin
Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali
Rock 'n' Roll
Vindaloo
Kamikaze
Unicycle
Duck Billed Platypus
The Acropolis
Bayern Munich etc.

:pac:
"...
The Dative Case
Silver
The Speckled Fellow
The Headache
The Lively Boy
The Gluttinous Rabbit
The High Hat
John of the Glen
Yours Respectfully
The Little Sweet Kiss"

(The Poor Mouth)