Words only heard in Ireland.

kielmanator · 02-02-2017 09:24PM

Langer - Corkonian idiot

Transmoglified - Beyond locked
Steamboats- Ditto

Luder - Kilnascullian idiot

Full as a bingo bus - stuffed after dinner

tayto lover · 02-02-2017 09:39PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

My cousin who is from Donegal (same as me) used to call runners.."gutties" I never heard anyone else, ever, use that term for trainers/runners. He was an odd ball though.

Same word used in Louth, Cavan and Monaghan.

02-02-2017 09:40PM

CPTM wrote: »

Is this not used the whole time in the states?

it means a woman who loves the ride, in the state. she gives out!! seriously don't mix them up

Commotion Ocean · 02-02-2017 09:46PM

Two words which I believe are specific to Fingal. Bunched = tired / ruined and dalk = thorn.

tayto lover · 02-02-2017 09:48PM

A crock as in a useless car.

Notoldorwise · 02-02-2017 09:58PM

Flitters, as in, definition of tatters!

osarusan · 02-02-2017 10:02PM

A 'haggard' - a small enclosure on a farm/near farm sheds.

Probably falling out of use in Ireland too.

Lorelli! · 02-02-2017 10:09PM

Free gaff

That's class

tayto lover · 02-02-2017 10:09PM

Dense = stupid.

HeidiHeidi · 02-02-2017 10:11PM

Woejus

Mountainsandh · 02-02-2017 10:30PM

grinder (bread, not sure if it's specific to the area I'm in : West Waterford/Tipp/Cork)

Cross as in, angry. When I was studying English back in French university, I used to spend my summers au-pairing here. I remember going back to college one year, we were asked for synonyms to "grumpy/angry" and I said : "cross". My lecturer refused to accept it, she didn't believe me when I said it was commonly used in Ireland. The bítch. Maybe it's used elsewhere actually and she was just being an ignorant bítch.

A lot of phrases really, Irish English is very poetic I think, in a folky-slangy sort of way.

look at the cut of him

I love-hate the phrase "soft day" or "soft rain". It really annoys me how inaccurate it is, and yet, it sort of makes sense in the context.

heldel00 · 02-02-2017 10:37PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Woejus

What does woejus mean? Same as "ojus"? As in "it's an ojus day"? Ie:great weather

HeidiHeidi · 02-02-2017 10:38PM

heldel00 wrote: »

What does woejus mean? I've heard "ojus"

Awful. Horrendous. Terrible. That sort of thing.

I suspect your ojus is a corruption of odious, and my woejus is a combination of that and woeful.

Agricola · 02-02-2017 10:40PM

osarusan wrote: »

A 'haggard' - a small enclosure on a farm/near farm sheds.

Probably falling out of use in Ireland too.

I think it's origin is Viking/Norse. It means "hay yard" where hay and crops were kept in a place close to the house.

heldel00 · 02-02-2017 10:43PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Awful. Horrendous. Terrible. That sort of thing.

I suspect your ojus is a corruption of odious, and my woejus is a combination of that and woeful.

Yep it is. Great word. Thus is an ojus thread!

Agricola · 02-02-2017 10:43PM

Horrid - Not certain if it qualifies but don't think you'd hear it used the same way anywhere else.

"Howerya Mattie. Shockin' horrid weather altogether hah!"

heldel00 · 02-02-2017 10:46PM

Agricola wrote: »

Horrid - Not certain if it qualifies but don't think you'd hear it used the same way anywhere else.

"Howerya Mattie. Shockin' horrid weather altogether hah!"

"Cowld" for cold. Horrid cowld

CFlat · 02-02-2017 10:58PM

'Gimp' as in, I don't like the gimp on that fella.

Spanish Eyes · 02-02-2017 11:02PM

Gob****e.

Fecker

Ludraman

Eejit

I will in me BLX

Gerrou a da garden

Aul one

Aul fella

Widdershins · 02-02-2017 11:13PM

Agricola wrote: »

Horrid - Not certain if it qualifies but don't think you'd hear it used the same way anywhere else.

"Howerya Mattie. Shockin' horrid weather altogether hah!"

It's common in England. Horrid Henry.

Bowsy?
Gurrier
Sh*tehawk
Press aka Cupboard-though a Scottish friend also says it

Spanish Eyes · 02-02-2017 11:16PM

Widdershins wrote: »

It's common in England. Horrid Henry.

Bowsy?

That's one of the words I was racking my brains for that my dear granny used to call the reprobates that were smoking woodbines on the corner. LOL. Thanks!

DanMurphy · 02-02-2017 11:20PM

Margarine legs - (as in easily spread) = female with loose morals.

fuerte1976 · 02-02-2017 11:30PM

Gawked. As in vomited everywhere..
Gowl. He/she's an awful person.

Hans_Memling · 02-02-2017 11:34PM

Ye

filbert the fox · 02-02-2017 11:37PM

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".

fornenst - right in front of you - north county Dublin

conniption - fit of disbelief encouraging angry response

heldel00 · 02-02-2017 11:51PM

Yizzer = all of your
Shuck = ditch
Kinat = brat (quite hard to type that as it should be pronounced)
Nyuck = same as Kinat
Gahalah = young girl
Gosun = young boy (should be gasún bit not pronounced that way)

cumulonimbus · 03-02-2017 12:02AM

Skunnered

Hames

Aye surely.

A wheen = a few
A rake = a lot

Nekarsulm · 03-02-2017 12:06AM

" Bunched" is common in Cavan as well.
Back in the 60's and 70's we all wore gutties. Usually looked like the classic Dunlop tennis shoe.
Slibbery. A slibbery fellow would be a bit of a wheeler dealer, hard to get a commitment from, sailing fairly close to the law.

Street. A name for the small piece of farmyard outside the kitchen door.

Bad Scrant. A mild exclamation of disgust about some item. "Well bad scrant to it anyway, that's the third time that's broken"

lulu1 · 03-02-2017 12:16AM

I'll mell ye meaning I'll knock you out or something similar. Heard it said often in fun years ago and say it often to my teenagers who think it's the joke of the century

happypants · 03-02-2017 12:57AM

Rigg-out as in an outfit/ clothes. Where did that even come from.. it makes me giggle when people say it!!

Words only heard in Ireland.

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