Words only heard in Ireland.

Sue Pa Key Pa · 03-02-2017 02:32PM

Compo

Irish Stones · 03-02-2017 02:34PM

maudgonner wrote: »

Irish Stones wrote: »

So when did he die? :ermm:

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

Let's say he died on last Tuesday. If he lived to next Tuesday he would not be dead a week on that day, in fact he would be still alive.

Boardz Fiend · 03-02-2017 02:36PM

Scutters: a fierce does of

cactusgal · 03-02-2017 02:37PM

rusty cole wrote: »

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

Nope. You mean "she puts out." We only use "give out" in the USA to mean "distribute."

cactusgal · 03-02-2017 02:38PM

Is the word "streelish" only used in Ireland?

niallb · 03-02-2017 02:41PM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Got directions once of an auld guy in Galway, which finished up, 'take the next right, then a left and hooray for Portumna'.
Never heard hooray used like that before and I thought it was brilliant.

That's excellent.
Must be from "ar aghaidh" for straight ahead.

03-02-2017 02:41PM

"Amn't I" ... or even better .... "Amn't I not" :pac:

Flange/Flanders · 03-02-2017 02:44PM

C*ntish, my favourite swear word.

Wildcard7 · 03-02-2017 02:45PM

As someone who's been living with an irish person for 10 years and living here for 4, I've been quite proud to understand almost all of these: https://www.collegetimes.com/entertainment/irish-sentences-that-make-no-sense-137702
The problem starts when I don't know what's an irish expression and what's used world wide. So if I have an american on the phone and ask him to tell me more about that yoke yer man was talking about we'll both end up thinking there's something substantially wrong with the other guy.

Boom_Bap · 03-02-2017 02:47PM

When someone asks where something is, you reply 'over there' without any gestures
The person resonds with 'yonder' with no gestures.
You say, 'no, beyond' and they no exactly where to go.

topper75 · 03-02-2017 03:13PM

Positively Negative wrote: »

Turnip, as in swede

http://www.turniprecipes.co.uk/the-difference-between-a-swede-and-a-turnip/

Almost, but not quite.

yellowlabrador · 03-02-2017 03:16PM

He (or she) won't do......

randomname2005 · 03-02-2017 03:17PM

Sangwitch.

darkpagandeath · 03-02-2017 03:17PM

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".

Every country I have been its around.. Guy in flash Car group your with Ba*tard. Hardly ever hear well he must have worked really hard.

Elemonator · 03-02-2017 03:18PM

"Grand". Go literally a short distance to the UK and nobody will know what you mean. The Irish descendants might if you are lucky

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LushiousLips · 03-02-2017 04:19PM

Biro = Pen

Mockiaaa = Pretend/Made Up

Something is Retarded = Something is silly

F*ck me = I'm shocked

F*ck me Pink = I'm even more shocked

Pods = Parents

Pitch is flooded = Period

Game of Knocka = Ringing doorbells and running for your life

tayto lover · 03-02-2017 04:22PM

Hut.

Used in Louth.

"How did the row start?
"The row started when he hut me back".

FrancieBrady · 03-02-2017 04:27PM

tayto lover wrote: »

Hut.

Used in Louth.

"How did the row start?
"The row started when he hut me back".

Hee Haw.

'I was warming my hands on the hee haw'.

Maglight · 03-02-2017 04:30PM

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".

He's beyant in the shed fading the baayschts

bodhrandude · 03-02-2017 04:30PM

Alright horse - Clare or Galway greeting, more in the county than in the cities.

Deadly - Belfast or around Northern Ireland

You wee Nyaff! - Could be Scottish or Irish, my mother used it anyway and she is from Leitrim.

Wheeker · 03-02-2017 04:59PM

Wheeker = Great/Fantastic (Belfast)

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

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

At the risk of looking like an eedjit (<<there's another one!), I'm hoping someone will enlighten me here, from up North myself, but I find it unusual that TO doesn't follow after "allowed", as above. I've noticed everyone "down South" says it & it's not a slang thing as I've seen it in newspapers also......is it old Hiberno-English grammar..

LordSutch · 04-02-2017 08:56PM

Wheeker wrote: »

... but I find it unusual that TO doesn't follow after "allowed", as above. I've noticed everyone "down South" says it & it's not a slang thing as I've seen it in newspapers also......is it old Hiberno-English grammar..

I notice the absence of the word THE before studio!

Example: Joining me today 'In Studio' is ... or, during an outside TV broadcast some very cool presenter might say "and now it's back to studio"

Most peculiar to hear the absence of the word THE preceding studio, but it seems to be the norm here nowadays. A trend that has developed internally in the ROI over the last twenty/twenty five years.

tayto lover · 04-02-2017 09:07PM

Chancer = someone outrageously trying something on.

You don't hear anyone being called a chancer anywhere else.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 04-02-2017 09:18PM

Catmalogen.

I was up in Mayo a few years ago and noticed 'cat' was being dropped into every second sentence. I eventually asked one of these people, what the hell does cat mean. He looked at me funny and said catmalogen.

I nearly fell off my barstool with laughter. I love Mayo people, they always crack me up with their ways.

indioblack · 04-02-2017 09:38PM

Elemonator wrote: »

"Grand". Go literally a short distance to the UK and nobody will know what you mean. The Irish descendants might if you are lucky

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That would be me, then! Use it all the time - usually as thanks in a transaction or a task completed - "Grand job".
I am slowly infecting the north-west of Wiltshire with it!

muddypaws · 04-02-2017 10:47PM

Not a word, but the way its said. Yeah as you breathe in, never heard anyone except an Irish person do it.

heldel00 · 04-02-2017 10:52PM

Trawhook - a slapper.
(Regularly used by my granny. Don't know what sort of company she used to keep!)

Irish Stones · 06-02-2017 09:56AM

muddypaws wrote: »

Not a word, but the way its said. Yeah as you breathe in, never heard anyone except an Irish person do it.

Wow, I thought it was a peculiarity of a given person I once talked to in co. Dublin

Irish Stones · 06-02-2017 09:57AM

muddypaws wrote: »

Not a word, but the way its said. Yeah as you breathe in, never heard anyone except an Irish person do it.

Wow, I thought it was a peculiarity of a given person I once talked to in co. Dublin

EDIT: Sorry, double post,! Mods, please delete!

PARlance · 06-02-2017 10:06AM

Irish Stones wrote: »

Wow, I thought it was a peculiarity of a given person I once talked to in co. Dublin

EDIT: Sorry, double post,! Mods, please delete!

Go on outta that.

As in, go on outta that and delete your own post.

Words only heard in Ireland.

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