Saying Fc*k off in Irish..

PommieBast

A follow on from a previous post sometimes I really want to let go but prefer not everyone within ear-shot to understand. What Irish words should be used? 😁

ruth...less

'Dul amach' i think

Insect Overlord

Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an Diabhal an cat!

Seve OB

scréach as

Gloomtastic!

could try harder?

ruth...less

oiche maith

sniperman

focal off

Insect Overlord

In fairness, Google Translate has improved beyond all recognition in the last few years, but it still ain't perfect.

"Focáil leat" would be the direct way of saying it, but sounds too much like the English for anyone to hope to get away with saying it in public.

munster87

Póg mo thóin works for most scenarios? 😄

Insect Overlord

"Scread mhaidine ort" is a tremendously dark one to hurl at someone.

boardise

(i) 'Gread leat'..(pronounced approx. like 'grad lath'.)

(ii) 'Imigh as' ( pronunced like 'imig oss')

Both convey the meaning 'go away quickly' / 'get outta here' without ,however, possessing the curt dismissiveness of the English phrase.

maninasia

Morning scream at you ?

Banshee?

Insect Overlord

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121986387#Comment_121986387

There are a few different interpretations of it. One is that you'll wake up screaming, or that you'll wake up and discover something that will make you scream. The darker way of looking at it is that someone will find what's left of you in the morning, and they'll scream.

Esel

Fuic leat.

iniscealtra

gread leat

maniac2003

Scread leat

On the phrase above Always took it as may ya die roarin.....even though its not the litteral translation

Greengrass53

Scrios as mo radharc

PommieBast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121986330#Comment_121986330

Google Translate doesn't account for cultural differences. For instance english swearing tends to be sexually-orientated whereas in chinese the really impolite stuff I am told is reference to family members.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121988639#Comment_121988639

你的母亲 ?

Insect Overlord

Thinking a bit more about this since last night, the angriest reaction I ever got was for saying "Abhaile leat" to a very arrogant individual who was trying to interrupt my commute to work. I got the impression he was used to always getting his own way and not being told to go away home for himself, there.

Goldengirl

Go diabhail leat! .to the devil with you.

Shortened can sound like go Dia leat but if you were blessing someone you'd just say Dia DUIT.

' Bailigh leat' is another .get yourself together and ....

maninasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121988639#Comment_121988639

Well it's actually a mix of the two same as English.

lmk123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121986346#Comment_121986346

what does that mean?

RobbingBandit

Fook awf

Insect Overlord

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991217#Comment_121991217

Check 10 or 11 posts above yours. I posted some meanings for it the other night. Wish we could still multi-quote on this site to make replying to you easier!

mr chips

"Feisigh leat" is what we would use. Interesting that the word feis is usually understood as a festival or competition involving music/dance etc, but the word also means fcuk, so feisigh leat is literally fcuk with yourself. Feis is also the root of the word bainis for wedding - bean fheis, or the fcuking of a woman. (Sorry!)

Peregrinus

Feis is a noun, not a verb. It means a gathering or coming together, for a purpose which is usually social but can be cultural (Feis ceoil, a festival of music) or political (ard-fheis, a party congress; feisire, a Member of Parliament).

It's a signficant gathering; a feis would last at least a day and a night, and possibly much longer. There's usually food, drink and accommodation involved. From this, it can mean a social gathering at someone's house; a house party; a sleepover; a weekend party.

And from this, you get the sense of people sharing food, drink, accommodation for, um, intimate social purposes. It could refer to people marrying, or living together, or a more short-term relationship — even a one-night stand. But there is the connotation of more than just sex. Sex in the laneway at the back of the nightclub is not really feis. (But a sex party probably would be.)

Feis leat would mean, literally speaking, something like "I hope or wish for you to have a sexual relationship". It's not inherently offensive, but it might obviously be said with a tone or in a context that implies this is unlikely because you are unpleasant, inept, immature or generally repellent. Or it might suggest that you would be better off going and trying to find yourself a girlfriend/boyfriend than what you are doing now, which is annoying me.

On edit: I think the explanation of bainis as being from bean + feis is a folk etymology. If it did come from these two words and meant something like "conjugal festival with/for a woman" the words would occur in the other order — some form of feis first, then some form of bean. Word inversion in Irish does sometimes occur under Norse influence (Dubh Linn is the famous example) but that can't be the case here, since the word predates any Norse influence on Irish.

The Continental Op

I don't know if translated to Irish easily but in the UK I can remember "go away making short jerky movements" was popular for a time.

Reati

focáil leat.

You can hear the boys using Focáil in the wild in this video from a few years back.

Love it. Cé thú fhéin anyways….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u66D9W1qNIg

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121986330#Comment_121986330

**** as Gaeilige?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The thing about swearing is that it's a spontaneous release of frustration - pretty much a reflex action, without thought; so proper swearing will almost always be in your mother tongue.

If you have to think about a language switch then the moment is gone and the emotion is lost.