Dublin Slang

jdunne08

I'm looking for Dublin slang describing food as being tasty. Just say if you had a Starburst sweet and you wanted to say it was full of flavour/delicious how would one from dublin say it ?

For example in cork we'd say " Here Bois, these are savage like" or in Kerry/west "Christ! These yokes are full of juice!"

I just need one for Dublin and up north/Belfast so if anyone had any suggestions it would be great!

FYI this is for a college project.

Dr Crayfish

"Lovely", or "Gorgeous". Born and bred Northsider, I've never heard any slang in Dublin for describing flavoursome food.

Gumbo

That was 'animal'

Dr Crayfish

kceire wrote: »

That was 'animal'

is this something used specifically for food?

Dice75

Slightly NSFW

Samuel T. Cogley

Generally someone will put on a Cork accent and kill two birds with one stone; describing the flavor and mocking culchies. :pac:

D0NNELLY

Jaaaasis, dat's bleeeeeeeeedin' rapah

con1982

"lovely" or "bleedin lovely". Said with a Dublin accent.

coleslaw

bleedin massive that is

Sexual Chocolate

"These are wopper they are "

harry Bailey esq

jdunne08 wrote: »

I'm looking for Dublin slang

Ask me bollix!

tracey turnblad

I'm from the inner city Dublin.. we would 100% say this is bleedin massive... probably with an oh mammy thrown in front of it i.e. Oh mammy this is bleedin massive...

Can't help you with the Belfast slang

coleslaw

id bleedin mill tat ot ov it, it's gorgeous

coleslaw

dat burger was bleedin savage so it was

coleslaw

id lamp a hotdog out ov it now so i wud

SimonTemplar

i'd say it was divine

coleslaw

SimonTemplar wrote: »

i'd say it was divine

and totally gorge

Klonker

These starburst I stole are bleeding massive!

Del2005

tracey turnblad wrote: »

Can't help you with the Belfast slang

So it's not only Rats and Tomo who can't understand Belfast accents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgHg7SFeDF4

r93kaey5p2izun

That was quality.

That was whopper.

That was bleedin' massive.

BOHtox

That's lethal

D0NNELLY

coleslaw wrote: »

dat burger was bleedin savage so it was

Soitwasinallinanyways

Singer

"That hit the spot"? Not quite a description of the food itself, more the post-eating satisfaction.

Gumbo

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

is this something used specifically for food?

Nope. Can be used to describe a car, party, drink, food, person, thing etc

Samuel T. Cogley

Something I only noticed the other day is the juxtaposition of 'what' in Dublin. I'm used to it in the context of the (stereo-typically) very posh.

"Going shooting at the weekend old boy, what!"

I notice it at work:

"I'm getting lashed out of it at the weekend, wha!"

This thread just made me think of it.

Doctor Nick

Surprised only two people said "massive". That's what most of the fellow Dubs I know would say, my family in particular get very pissed off when I tell them massive means large or huge.

rubadub

Doctor Nick wrote: »

Surprised only two people said "massive".

I still consider "massive" to be relatively new slang. I think the first time I heard it was about 15 years ago, then all of a sudden heard it everywhere. First time was ovehearing some loud group of "young wans" on the bus talking about some lad who was "massive", I thought they meant fat at first but they were speaking as though they fancied him -I then thought he had a massive flute and got a around a lot!
"decco, sure he's bleeding massive!"
"I fcuking know!"

http://www.dailyedge.ie/dublin-slang-guide-795244-Feb2013/

I remember when I first moved to Dublin from the country and was in a friends house in ballyfermot and their neighbour who was a somewhat larger lady popped in to show off a new dress she got for a wedding. All the girls started telling her she looked massive. I nearly choked on my tea.

I would also consider savage fairly new. Someone mentioned "lethal", which probably followed from "deadly" which I would think is older slang.

Doctor Nick

rubadub wrote: »

I still consider "massive" to be relatively new slang. I think the first time I heard it was about 15 years ago, then all of a sudden heard it everywhere. First time was ovehearing some loud group of "young wans" on the bus talking about some lad who was "massive", I thought they meant fat at first but they were speaking as though they fancied him -I then thought he had a massive flute and got a around a lot!
"decco, sure he's bleeding massive!"
"I fcuking know!"

http://www.dailyedge.ie/dublin-slang-guide-795244-Feb2013/



I would also consider savage fairly new. Someone mentioned "lethal", which probably followed from "deadly" which I would think is older slang.

Forgot abut deadly, that's something I've said since I was a kid - "that was bleeding deadly".

Wouldn't think massive was new though, I know my family have said it for as long as I can remember. I'm nearly 40 now and I know that my sisters and mother said it when I was a kid - "That dinner was massive" or "Oh, it's massive out". Lethal is another one I remember now as a teenager mad into what would we now call old school hardcore and techno, "That track was lethal".

fleet_admiral

This falafel is rather tasty

Dr Crayfish

So in conclusion, no, there is no specific slam for something tasting good in Dublin.

HivemindXX

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

So in conclusion, no, there is no specific slam for something tasting good in Dublin.

Probably not. I don't think "savage" specifically relates to food in Cork either by the way. I've certainly heard the weather being referred to as savage.

gerrybbadd

Depends on the side of Dublin

South side might be "OMG that bit of nosebag was Gorge"

MysticMonk

When I was a kid there was no particular slang for food that tasted nice.

"Lubbly " was about as slangish as I can remember.

You hear people saying "Savage" quite a bit now in relation to food...or "deadly".

Dont be at yourself

'delish' would be the most common, I'd say.

markodaly

"Goooo on awayyyy with yaaazzzz"

andekwarhola

This single of chips is as piquant as the gooter of one's matriarch.

harry Bailey esq

D0NNELLY wrote: »

Jaaaasis, dat's bleeeeeeeeedin' rapah

Never heard that used to describe a tasty meal in all honesty. Rapid, or 'rapah' would usually be used when speaking about a fun place/activity. ie: 'done one of them Shannon cruises last weekend,it was (bleedin) rapah'
For food, gorgeous or (bleedin) lovely would be normal Dublin parlance. (bleedin) massive can be heard from time to time but it's strictly something women would say,and it's not confined to conversations about food. For example,when talking about an attractive man,you might hear a youngone remark to her friend 'yer man over there is (bleedin) massive' or 'I seen a lovely bag/belt/dress in town today,it was massive'
Northern slang can't be all put in the same category though as it's a big geographical area and has many different colloquialisms.Derry slang would be different to Belfast slang in the same way as Cork slang would differ to Dublins.

Gaspode

As kids if we were enjoyed something really, we'd just say 'Ah, that's Bass!'.
Even back then advertising messed with childrens minds!