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Words only heard in Ireland.

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  • #212
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


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

    There's *loads* of stuff in this thread that people incorrectly think is unique to Ireland...
    Craic? In the north of England, elderly people greet one another with, 'Canny crack?'


  • #213
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    It's fierce-fierce crack altogether
    The finest-as in will that do the finest
    Mot-quare one,girlfriend
    A wollox-a cross between a bollox and a wanker
    ****-best swear word ever not to be used in Murcia ye lol get the head taken of ya


  • #214
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Bonzo Delaney wrote: »
    Cute Hoor

    They say that abroad but they mean an attractive prostitute more so than a politician:)
    ...And Justice wrote: »
    Sorry I only know German. Suckin méinin cockin - My socks need washing in the pressure cooker.

    I have a photo of my missus standing beside a cardboard cut out of some gorgeous german woman in a pharmacy in dusseldorf, I'm not quite sure what she was trying to sell but the caption said "Wir Suchen Dich" so whatever it was, I want some.

    As my missus repeatedly points out - I am extremely childish sometimes

    About an hour after the pharmacy I was nearly killed running across the road to get a photo of a bus with Fúcker in giant writing all down the side!:D


  • #215
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    Irish Stones wrote: »
    Wow, I thought it was a peculiarity of a given person I once talked to in co. Dublin :)

    My Mum always did it, my English sister in law really noticed it, then on a trip here, she heard someone else do it, looked at me and the pair of us collapsed in giggles and then we heard tons of people doing it, and had to studiously ignore each other, or be considered rude or mad.


  • #216
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


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

    I used to have an English boyfriend who was like "WTF is that noise?" :D:D


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  • #217
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,501 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Irish Stones wrote: »
    Wow, I thought it was a peculiarity of a given person I once talked to in co. Dublin :)

    :):) I had a guy in Oklahoma stop as he spoke to me and ask in wonder, why I kept punctuating what he was saying with that 'yeah intake'. I hadn't noticed that I did it up until then. It was a tic I inherited from my dad.


  • #218
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,516 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Wheeker wrote: »
    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..:confused:
    In my opinion it's only a recent thing and follows US usage. It annoys the hell out of me too.


  • #219
    passremarkable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭passremarkable


    Windy;used a sports term for a cowardly player.


  • #220
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,028 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    A pint please - used to order Guinness only in the pub I use.
    Any other pint has to be ordered by name.


  • #221
    cactusgal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭cactusgal


    Alun wrote: »
    In my opinion it's only a recent thing and follows US usage. It annoys the hell out of me too.

    Huh? How do you figure that? I'm American and I'd only ever say "allowed to do something" -eg, "we're not allowed to smoke inside."

    In Ireland, I've often heard people say "we're not allowed smoke here" with no "to" after "allow," but I always assumed it was related to the Irish language (eg, I'm after having a coffee, there do be seals in Howth, etc), cause I've only ever heard it here and it definitely doesn't come from American English.


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  • #222
    Dolph Starbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭Dolph Starbeam


    I work for a British company in Wigan, I was arranging for some stock to be returned from an Irish customer and email him all the collection details;

    Response: Sound out so..

    (I'm presuming he knows from my surname that I'm Irish because I don't think any of my colleagues cc'd in the email have a clue what he meant)


  • #223
    RicePat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 160 ✭✭RicePat


    I doubt it - meaning "I do not think it is likely"
    yet
    I doubt so - meaning "I think it it almost certain"

    Also, Munya, rulya, feen, beure, gassun, gersha, gollya, kenat and likely a string of others


  • #224
    djemba djemba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    catmalogen


  • #225
    RicePat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 160 ✭✭RicePat


    bucksheewa


  • #226
    ValbKubrox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭ValbKubrox


    ****ehawk, b***arding, c***ing, inanyways, minerals as in soft drink


  • #227
    ablelocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    plike - fool, or gob****e

    from ag pleidhcíocht - fooling or messing around

    or acting the maggot, which is another phrase i'd say is only heard in ireland


  • #228
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Gowl.

    What a word.


  • #229
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Creel: The cripple some fella with a shoulder in a GAA match.i.e he absolutely creeled him.


  • #230
    banoffe2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 421 ✭✭banoffe2


    She/he has a mouth like Galway Bay!

    a loud mouth or someone you wouldn't be confiding in!


  • #231
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    "Arseways"

    Heard in some parts of the country more than others. (Usually the stupider parts)


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  • #232
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    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".
    When i was young we had an elderly neighbour who used to say "Abrant" meaning "in another country.
    ie. "Young Hogan is abrant in America."

    I think it was a cross between abroad and beyond.


  • #233
    ablelocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    sligojoek wrote: »
    When i was young we had an elderly neighbour who used to say "Abrant" meaning "in another country.
    ie. "Young Hogan is abrant in America."

    I think it was a cross between abroad and beyond.

    never heard of abrant, but beyant is the way i've heard beyond pronounced, so you're probably right...


  • #234
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    ablelocks wrote: »
    never heard of abrant, but beyant is the way i've heard beyond pronounced, so you're probably right...
    I've only ever heard her using the word. It might have been a concoction of her own.


  • #235
    deise toffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭deise toffee


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Gowl.

    What a word.
    Gowling- messing around or joking.


  • #236
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Bate (bating): As In "I gave that fella a right batin' outside the pub the other night"


  • #237
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    "I never met the bate of it"


  • #238
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Mainly around rural Sligo Leitrim and west Cavan.

    Divil a hayte = Nothing or nobody

    Was there anybody in the pub last night?
    Divil a hayte only me and John.

    Is there any turf left in the shed?
    Divil a hayte only dust.

    Allso Grape/Graipe = garden fork.


  • #239
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    My granny used to call me a lazy "cairn", I assume it comes from the word cairn as in standing stone. I have never heard it used outide of a small region of northern ireland though.


  • #240
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,807 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Rashers

    oink oink

    To thine own self be true



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  • #241
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭Stigura


    heldel00 wrote: »
    What does woejus mean? Same as "ojus"? As in "it's an ojus day"? Ie:great weather


    This is bloody fascinating! I think it was in " In Gypsy Tents " where Francis Hindes Groome was talking to a Romani girl. Anyway, he asked her how he should say " A lovely girl ". And she used the word " Odjus " for the lovely bit.

    Now, I found that strange. Because that's not a word I've ever heard ~ before or since ~ in that context. The Romani word is quite different.

    However, I've heard Pavi words used by British Gypsys too. I don't know Pav. But, I've found the odd word to be theirs. And, is theirs not said to include a lot of 'Old Irish'?

    What I'm now thinking is; Did that girl use a Pavi word, in with her Romani? Could " Odjus " be an Irish word, taken by Pavi's and passed to an english Gypsy??? Anyone? Please?


    Okay. It's late.

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