Phrases and the likes you never hear outside Ireland

Knackered is a common English word, I think it's spelt codding, she's codding you.coding means programming Knacker, itinerant,, bleeding, I was bleedin banjaxed, what's the story, Dublin slang,youse all, Dublin version of you all, bowsie,

Deadly dub slang , good, Jo maxi, taxi

Jaysus🙄

It is much politer, and is unrelated in origin. "To feck" means to "to steal surreptitiously" (as opposed to, e.g, robbery by threats or force). It has died out in most English dialects but survives (and indeed thrives) in Hiberno-English. You can use it as an interjection (Oh feck! Feck off! We're rightly fecked now!) but you can't use it to refer to actual fücking.

I thought about this one more, in between acting the Gurrier. Could the word ‘Gurrier’ have come from the Huguenots that fled to Ireland from France? Would make more sense than the Normans more recent!

A similar story; an Indian telling his Irish work colleague an incredible anecdote.

"Ah go away!"

Indian looks shocked at being dismissed in such a fashion.

Also known as a 'legger'.

I am not even sure it used anymore.

But keeping watch/ lookout for others was known as 'keeping sketch'.

Example -

A - Keep sketch lads will youse?

B+C - Sketch - here comes yer man, put the brick down he will hear us!

'Pegged her as an opportunist' reminds me of another one.

'Twigged'

Meaning - understood or realised.

There is some theories that it came from the Irish - tuig - understand/realised.

Galore, yes.

Smashing, no.

When I moved here 20 years ago, quite a few things were a first;

"Are you OK?" when entering a shop

How Are you? "Not too Bad"

"Thanks a million"

"so" at the end of sentences (e.g. See you tomorrow so). The so at the end of sentences always made me wait as I thought something more was coming. I do no longer but still find it strange.

And of course "What's the craic"

This might be a West of Ireland type one.

Calling someone a 'scut'

Scut, get out!

Sort of get out you lazy/lowlife type of idea. Had an aunt that used to say it when getting the cats out of the kitchen with a brush

I never really thought much of it until I heard there was a word 'scutage'.

The dictionary definition of scutage is -

'A tax paid in lieu of military service in feudal times.'

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Apparently scutage was frown upon as a way of avoiding military service. It surely can't be beyond the bounds of possibility that Scuttage was gradually shortened to 'scut'?

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The cambridge dictionary has 'Scut' as

Irish-English informal-

'a person who you think is bad, stupid, or unpleasant:

Go away, you little scut!'

Saying "sugar" as a substitute for ****. As in "well sugar, I forgot to get milk from the shop!" Not sure how common this was, my grandmother used to say it. Havent heard it in years.

"He wouldn't give you the itch" was apparently a saying describing someone who was mean. The itch being scabies. I remember a teacher in primary school telling us that in the 80s that it was a saying when he was young (circa 1940s).