Curses you don't hear anymore

Howard Juneau

I do like the mild Irish curses.
Amadáin & óinseach, male & female fool/idiot
When someone annoyed me a little i'd say, May your arse fester and boil.

Layinghen

Or how about "may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits"?

Howard Juneau

Layinghen wrote: »

Or how about "may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits"?

Swap "armpits" for "balls", and add "and may your arms be too short to scratch them"

Layinghen

:eek:

Rubecula

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Swap "armpits" for "balls", and add "and may your arms be too short to scratch them"

Not sure that would be much good to a lady unless she plays in the ladies football team

Howard Juneau

Rubecula wrote: »

Not sure that would be much good to a lady unless she plays in the ladies football team

I'm sure it's not gender specific, you could perhaps swap "balls" for...something else!

uch

You ScutterPullitt

Red Hare

' Guttersnipe" - I havent heard this for years! ( but I read it tonight over in the Teaching & Lecturing Forum - as you can imagine things are very heated there in relation to teaching unions at the mo).
Guttersnipe is a good old fashioned name!

I am pie

My ma used to say "I'll have your guts for garters" or "Your head's a marley"

A marley being one of those marble balls kids used to play with.

Dtp1979

Rube

Ted_YNWA

There's a smell of benji off ya

Jellybaby1

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Rube

:eek:

Dtp1979

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

:eek:

What does it mean?

Howard Juneau

Dtp1979 wrote: »

What does it mean?

It's been used in the Simpsons a bit. Country bumkin type insult I think

Jellybaby1

It means....how shocking that anyone could use our ould friend Rube's name as a curse! Utterly shocking! I can't tell you how shocked I was! I was so shocked, it was shocking! Actually, that's a word you don't hear anymore 'shocking'........I usually hear........ 'like, I was just freaked out, man' and suchlike.

Red Hare

Dtp1979 wrote: »

What does it mean?

It means a lovely person from across the pond!:cool:

Dtp1979

Wow little did I know a word Bart Simpson used years ago would stir so much

Qualitymark

Dtp1979 wrote: »

What does it mean?

It's an Americanism, kind of old-fashioned, meaning a culchie:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rube

deise08

Stuchain. Pronounced stookawn. Was a fool.
Bibe not a nice word for a woman.
Malogen. When something was bad
Cat malogen. Something was awful
Hardchaw. A quarefellow
Gougher. a hardchaw from dub.
Daw. Stupid person.
Galoot. A big dope.
Scut or pup.
and my favourite
SPARROWFART

Qualitymark

deise08 wrote: »

Stuchain. Pronounced stookawn. Was a fool.
Bibe not a nice word for a woman.

Pronunciation, please? Also of Malogen?

Malogen. When something was bad
Cat malogen. Something was awful
Hardchaw. A quarefellow
Gougher. a hardchaw from dub.

Gouger, one who would gouge out eyes in fights originally.

Daw. Stupid person.
Galoot. A big dope.
Scut or pup.
and my favourite
SPARROWFART

I only heard 'daw' from the 1980s; don't know why it should mean a stupid person, unless it comes from "D'oh!"

Howard Juneau

I think it's Stu Kawn

Qualitymark wrote: »

Pronunciation, please? Also of Malogen?

Mal Oh jen

Gouger, one who would gouge out eyes in fights originally.



I only heard 'daw' from the 1980s; don't know why it should mean a stupid person, unless it comes from "D'oh!"

It's an abbreviation of amadàin

deise08

Sorry. a bibe is pronounced the same as bible without the l. or sayin bye and adding b.
dunno where daw came from but always remember it just meaning a dope or someone not too clever.
malogen. Pronounced as mal like pal, low and gen like gem. sayin the low part just a tiny bit more so maLOgen. Sorry I just assumed cos I knew how to pronounce so did others.
Hope that helps?

CUCINA

"The curse of landerin' jaysus onya!", the reaction you might have got years ago if you startled or frightened someone...

Now, it's more likely to be, "Well $X&" ya anyway!"...

deise08

Guys anybody ever hear of a bearac. pronounced bare ak ? Apparently my grandmother used it the whole time. was told its something not very pleasant

Dtp1979

I did in me bare aks

Qualitymark

Ahhhhh! Melodeon! It's kind of a joke word, like 'mahogany gaspipes', which was a jokey fake Irish-language phrase.

Rube isn't a curse word at all; it's a kind of carnie (carnival slang) word for an innocent poor soul who'll be easy to cheat.

iverjohnston

My dad would say "bad scrant to you anyway"
And of course, here in Cavan, lots of things are "nojus"
he got a nojus fright
that was a nojus day
I have spent a nojus amount of money on that car
etc etc

Qualitymark

iverjohnston wrote: »

My dad would say "bad scrant to you anyway"
And of course, here in Cavan, lots of things are "nojus"
he got a nojus fright
that was a nojus day
I have spent a nojus amount of money on that car
etc etc

Love 'bad scrant to you'!

a nojus = an odious.

Happyman42

There's two that where used in my family.

My dad and his brothers would say that.

iverjohnston wrote: »

My dad would say "bad scrant to you anyway"

Any idea what it means? They where Fermanagh men.

And my mum (A Donegal woman)used say this;

I am pie wrote:

"Your head's a marley"

I always thought it was a derogatory reference to a Bus owning family that lived near her. Obviously I was mistaken.

Qualitymark

Happyman42 wrote: »

There's two that where used in my family.

My dad and his brothers would say that.
Any idea what it means? They where Fermanagh men.

And my mum (A Donegal woman)used say this;




I always thought it was a derogatory reference to a Bus owning family that lived near her. Obviously I was mistaken.

A marley was a type of large clay marble used in games of marbles.

Scrant is food, according to Bernard Share's fabulous book on Irish speech, Slanguage:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slanguage-Dictionary-Colloquial-English-Ireland/dp/0717143902/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380062003&sr=1-5&keywords=bernard+share