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Words only heard in Ireland.

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  • #152
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Lionel Strong Schwa wrote: »
    Presses as opposed to cupboards

    Bold instead of naughty.

    Piped TV .

    Presses has gotten me many strange looks abroad


  • #153
    The_Chap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭The_Chap


    Scarlet for yer ma


  • #154
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


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

    Meaning a loaf of bread!

    They say pan in France Spain Italy!
    In Italy it is "pane" :)


  • #155
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    One word which describes Donald Trump very well has yet to make an appearance in this thread. Of course he may just be a narcissistic sociopath but I prefer to think of him as a......

    Spoofer.


  • #156
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Ware, used for delph.

    Mostly down in the rebel county


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  • #157
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    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.
    tayto lover wrote: »
    Same word used in Louth, Cavan and Monaghan.

    Gutties from gutta percha, a natural rubbery substance that was formerly used for golf balls and electrical cable insulation as well.


  • #158
    The_Chap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭The_Chap


    Jocks and mickey


  • #159
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    tayto lover wrote: »
    A crock as in a useless car.

    formerly a Relick!

    Eye tallion - pertaining to the Booted med country.

    Fabellllous - wonderful

    Twine - string in theory

    Jant - see ride above


  • #160
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    contrary ....is contrary an irish derived word? it sounds irish


  • #161
    kittensmittens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭kittensmittens


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Mine too. It's a brilliant word. Love to know the origin.

    I remember hearing from an old Dublin Gaeilgeoir that it was to do with broken pottery! The pots would crack at the base etc and would be fecked.


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  • #162
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Mithered


    Addled

    Grand (in the sense of everything being o.k)

    As someone has said, Bold (naughty)


  • #163
    DanMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    Feck is an old Elizabethan name for Swan meat, only feasted upon by royalty in dem olde riffle-collar days.


  • #164
    retweet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭retweet


    Penneys girl


  • #165
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    The_Chap wrote: »
    Scarlet for yer ma

    Scarlet for your da for ridin' your ma.


    Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

    bye


  • #166
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,519 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    alf66 wrote: »
    In England you will never hear the expression "have you turned the immersion off?" as they are always turned on.
    Not true. No idea where you got that from.


  • #167
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    ^ I knew people with these old water heater things next to the sink, maybe that's what the poster's thinking of?


  • #168
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,807 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Presses has gotten me many strange looks abroad

    When I was in NY at my cousin's house, I asked her where was their hot press? She handed me an iron..
    Apparently I was looking for the airing cupboard :pac:

    To thine own self be true



  • #169
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,581 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    The way we put words together is pretty unique too. I love the one where the guy is asking when somebody died and he gets the answer: 'Well, if he lived to next Tuesday, he'd be dead a week'. :)


  • #170
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,935 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Alun wrote: »
    Sally trees (willow).

    Sallybrook=Willowbrook= Sruthán Na Saile.


  • #171
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,959 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Not sure fortnight would be understood much outside of Ireland.

    Also "this Saturday", "next Saturday" and "Saturday week"


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  • #172
    The Diddakoi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭The Diddakoi


    Alun wrote: »
    Not true. No idea where you got that from.

    probably from living in England for 30 years......


  • #173
    CaptainR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭CaptainR


    Rake as a unit of measurement.

    Eg. "He had a rake of cans last night"


  • #174
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Bockety, for a bit broken or falling apart.

    As in: "the wheel on that bike is fierce bockety!"


  • #175
    kierank01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kierank01


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    When I was in NY at my cousin's house, I asked her where was their hot press? She handed me an iron..
    Apparently I was looking for the airing cupboard :pac:

    Who puts cups in the hot press?? :confused:


  • #176
    Your Superior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Your Superior


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Not sure fortnight would be understood much outside of Ireland.

    Also "this Saturday", "next Saturday" and "Saturday week"
    this can go on the list, along with 50% of what is here, as things that are regularly said in the UK. "Knackered, banjaxed, rake, etc etc"


  • #177
    Irish Stones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭Irish Stones


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    The way we put words together is pretty unique too. I love the one where the guy is asking when somebody died and he gets the answer: 'Well, if he lived to next Tuesday, he'd be dead a week'. :)
    So when did he die? :ermm:


  • #178
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Kip (for a rundown/messy house or place).
    Minerals for soft drinks.
    The cut of you - when you're not looking your best. Also for a resemblance - she's the cut of her mother.
    Streel - a scruffy/slutty woman.

    The -een suffix, inherited from the diminutive in Irish.
    He's a grand ladeen, lives in the houseen up the boreen with the girleen. The mother drives that red careen. They have that lovely little dogeen.


  • #179
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Irish Stones wrote: »
    So when did he die? :ermm:

    Tuesday.
    - Last Tuesday?
    No, Tuesday just gone.


  • #180
    Lucena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    CaptainR wrote: »
    Rake as a unit of measurement.

    Eg. "He had a rake of cans last night"

    Possibly from the Danish word 'raekke' meaning several, a series, a row etc.

    That's my theory anyway! :D


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  • #181
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    There's millions of them, we're very heavy on slang in this country. Poor craythur comes to mind.


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