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Words only heard in Ireland.

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  • #32
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Immersion.
    Not unique to Ireland, what do you think they call them in England?

    However, the thing the immersion lives in is called an 'airing cupboard', not a 'hot press'.


  • #33
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Large brown 'pan' . . .

    Meaning a loaf of bread!

    They say pan in France Spain Italy!


  • #34
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Delph.


  • #35
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Dr Crayfish wrote:
    They say pan in France Spain Italy!


    I think it comes from French doesn't it?


  • #36
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Moist


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,286 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    "Begrudgery". F*cking nation is obsessed with that word. I'm not allowed dislike U2 because it's "begrudgery". I'm not allowed think Michael O'Leary is an assh*le because it's "begrudgery". I'm not allowed follow Amy Huberman around at night with my dick out because it's "begrudgery".

    Well in addition to that im not sure Brian would be too happy :pac:


  • #38
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    pilly wrote: »
    I think it comes from French doesn't it?

    Probably Latin originally


  • #39
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    They say pan in France Spain Italy!

    But if you ask for one in Britain they will look at you funny :)

    Unless you're after a frying pan.


  • #40
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Sally trees (willow).


  • #41
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Gallybander


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  • #42
    VonLuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭VonLuck


    "Ah here, will ye go away"


  • #43
    ...And Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭...And Justice


    Sorry I only know German. Suckin méinin cockin - My socks need washing in the pressure cooker.


  • #44
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Press, it's actually an old English word that's now only used in Ireland.


  • #45
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Nagan


  • #46
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭secman


    Saying someone is a gas man, as in funny .


  • #47
    sligolad1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭sligolad1


    Will ya shift my friend?

    Yer wan

    The oul lady


  • #48
    nkav86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭nkav86


    Messgiz - shopping


  • #49
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,136 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    'T'would sicken your hole'


  • #50
    passremarkable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭passremarkable


    Cat malogen


  • #51
    DanMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Anyone ever hear the word " beyant" meaning over there. Very often heard in Cavan and Monaghan. " He's beyant in the shed".

    I think you mean 'ferninst' as in against the wall. Takes in Westmeath (Mullingar and eastwards)

    Also used in Mullingar, as are the following '
    'Adin' -inside
    'Adout' - outside
    'cashapookas' - inedible mushrooms
    'Russian boots' - Wellingtons


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The messages, the sliced pan, the presses, the hot press, the yoke, and the quare fella, and those gobsh*tes. It's long been a puzzle to me.

    When my cousin would come over from the US for summers in our grannys, he'd go back talking about sliced pans, gobsh*tes and hot presses, and his American friends thought that was him speaking Gaeilge.


  • #53
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    I'm "after" doing something.

    Goes back to when Irish was our predominant language.


  • #54
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    Culchie. I had to explain this one to my English friend recently. She hadn't a clue what I was talking about.


  • #55
    gitzy16v
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭gitzy16v


    I'm knackered..as in tired.
    The place is black... as in packed,jammers,crowded
    Actually jammers could be another.


  • #56
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    I remember a German lad came to our secondary school on exchange. Having spent the year here he said that "it'll be grand" is the most useful piece of non-standard English he'd picked up.


  • #57
    ...And Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭...And Justice


    She has a box on her like a loose rasher counter in Tesco.


  • #58
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,028 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Is that not just a funny way of saying "beyond"?

    Reminds of "abroad" - as in "he's abroad in the field there"

    Could be.
    There's also another word used in those areas -"frenent" meaning opposite.
    His house is frenent the church.


  • #59
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    I'm "after" doing something.

    If you really want to confuse an outsider just say something like "I'm after buying a large brown pan for me Sambo's" :D That would either get you beaten up or treated with total puzzlement & disgust, depending on who you said it to.


  • #60
    Father Hernandez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,436 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    Runners

    They're trainers/sneakers everywhere else

    Also, locked!


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  • #61
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Gerup de yard awra dat


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