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Farm Sayings

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    #362
    The Rabbi
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭The Rabbi


    invicta wrote: »
    A goulogue also used in conjunction with a sickle to cut ferns. Push the ferns away and cut with the sickle

    The bilhook was used with the top of a wellington covering your hand and the goulogue pushing the briars aside.


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    #363
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Gran uncle of mine always says: isn't that a fine jog of turf/hay.

    A squart of tay would be another one around here.

    Best saying I've heard lately is "even a dog with a hammer up his hole would know thats not a metre deep"... from a waterford girl I work with!! I was crying laughing at that one.


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    #364
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Someone of short stature could be described as " close to the ground like a Dexter cow".


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    #365
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,570 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Describing someone short and overweight,
    "It'd be easier jump over them than walk around them"


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    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    White Clover wrote: »
    Describing someone short and overweight,
    "It'd be easier jump over them than walk around them"

    They were as broad as They were long.


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    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    White Clover wrote: »
    Describing someone short and overweight,
    "It'd be easier jump over them than walk around them"

    Built more for comfort than speed.


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    Tig98
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Tig98


    White Clover wrote: »
    Describing someone short and overweight,
    "It'd be easier jump over them than walk around them"

    Ive seen quite a few feathers ruffled by a use of that phrase. If a man was giving out about the hunt he'd be shut up quick if someone said they could as easily jump over his land than go through it.


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    #369
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Not one id use myself but often heard about a promiscuous woman:

    "Shed live longer on her back than a sheep would".


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    #370
    dabbler2004
    Registered Users Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭dabbler2004


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    A gollóg - a Y shaped piece of wood usually a
    forked limb cut for some purpose.

    My father (not a farmer) would often cut a gollóg when fishing to rest the rod on it when waiting for a fish to take the bait.


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    #371
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    There's great/no drying in it.
    Tis fierce close.
    There's savage/no growth there.


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    #372
    banoffe2
    Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭banoffe2


    A melted Rogue
    A thundering rip!!


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    #373
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,506 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    whats a melted rouge


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    #374
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Theres more meat on a tinkers stick after a fight




    In reference to a particularly skinny person


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    #375
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,617 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    "He wouldn't give the heat of his sh1t to the crows"

    self explanatory


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    #376
    Micey.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Micey.ie


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Theres more meat on a tinkers stick after a fight




    In reference to a particularly skinny person

    Another in reference to skinny person’I seen more meat on Good Friday’


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    #377
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    If he turned sideways you'd miss him.


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    #378
    banoffe2
    Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭banoffe2


    a melted rogue was another term for a blackguard- someone you couldn't trust


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    #379
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    I thought back to my granny's sayings this morning, when I heard about the knockout.

    When you're "top of the wheel you're nearest the fall" or
    when you "think you're flying you're only fluttering".


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    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Describing a heavy set woman -

    She'd be f*** all use to you on a wet bog.


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    #381
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Infernal Racket wrote: »
    Describing a heavy set woman -

    She'd be f*** all use to you on a wet bog.

    I think that one in Gender neutral.

    "They'd let you down like an ass in a bog"


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    #382
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,570 ✭✭✭White Clover


    "I don't mind dirt, but I cant stand sh1t"
    From a local character after listening to a tall story in the pub late one night.


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    #383
    banoffe2
    Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭banoffe2


    bad tempered male - a lighting devil
    Female - a lighting strap


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    #384
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,706 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    'Ticking over like a mouse's heart' to describe an old tractor still going well.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #385
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    banoffe2 wrote: »
    bad tempered male - a lighting devil
    Female - a lighting strap

    One that I heard a couple of times around the same vein -
    House devil street angel.


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    #386
    ruwithme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    "If saint Brigid’s day is fine and dry,saddle your horse and go and buy hay"


    (Not sure looking out here,its one of them days)


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    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    ruwithme wrote: »
    "If saint Brigid’s day is fine and dry,saddle your horse and go and buy hay"


    (Not sure looking out here,its one of them days)

    Does that mean well have a wet spring?


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    #388
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,375 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Does that mean well have a wet spring?

    We are having one as it is


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    #389
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Reggie. wrote: »
    We are having one as it is

    Today's the 1st day of spring lol


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    #390
    Tig98
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Tig98


    A good cow never goes on the market twice


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    #391
    ruwithme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    ruwithme wrote: »
    "If saint Brigid’s day is fine and dry,saddle your horse and go and buy hay"


    (Not sure looking out here,its one of them days)
    The winter dragged on anyway despite brigies day being the opposite to above.


    Read this one earlier on a you tube comments page
    "She's no egg, but she's some yoke "


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