Phrases and the likes you never hear outside Ireland

Goes back a long way, according to Wikipedia. The origin is in Latin, as with many English words.

A pan loaf is a style of bread loaf baked in a loaf pan or tin. It is the most common style available in the United Kingdom, though the term itself is predominantly Scottish and Northern Irish so as to differentiate it from the plain loaf. The pan loaf has a soft pale brown crust all round the bread, in contrast to a plain loaf's darker crust only at the top and bottom.

A pan loaf was once more expensive than the then more common plain loaf. Therefore, in Scots and Scottish English, to speak with a pan loafy voice is to speak in a posh or affected manner, e.g. the distinctive accents of Kelvinside, Glasgow and Morningside, Edinburgh.

In most of the world, a ditch is exclusively a trench in the ground, usually filled with water. In Ireland the term is often used for a raised boundary, like a hedgerow.

So you’ll hear of Irish farmers “knocking” or “building” a ditch, whereas their foreign counterparts would be filling or digging them. (although obviously the trench definition is known here too).

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Wile - think its a donegal/ulster thing, used as an adjective it means 'bad', but can also be used as and adverb along with bad, to conversely makes it less bad

"It was wile, hi"

"It was wile bad, hi"

Fortnight is not especially Irish; it's standard/common in all varieties of English except US English. It's US English that's the outlier on this one, not Hiberno-English.

Of course, even Shakespeare used it!! Dunno what I was thinking posting that!

Maybe I was thinking of our habit of saying "Friday week " meaning the Friday after next...

I remember people using pegged for throwing alright, used for a different meaning these days of course that hopefully wouldnt involve students and teachers.

Reefed - for grabbing something off someone

Get outta here.

There a couple of dozen meanings for Peg. Peg meaning to throw is probably rare enough for some people to think it might be Irish.

v. pegged, peg·ging, pegs

v.tr.

1. To fasten or plug with a peg or pegs.

2. To designate or mark by means of a peg or pegs.

3. To fix (a price) at a certain level or within a certain range.

4. Informal To classify; categorize: I pegged her as an opportunist. Why do you have me pegged as the rowdy one?

5. Informal

a. To hit, especially with a thrown object or fired projectile: She pegged him on the head with a snowball.

b. To throw or fire (an object or projectile): "How did you learn to peg a ball as straight as this?" (Zane Grey).

If someone is fond of the grub,

"He would eat the hands of the clock, that fella."

Getting the 'shift' . Or coourt.

"Warrior" came into English from French with the Normans, so there is no reason why "gurrier" couldn't have. In fact English has lots of words that came in with the Normans and, so far as I know, none that came in with the Huguenots, who were a much smaller group and had much less social and cultural influence.

Depending on where you are, to "Peg" someone also means to bum them with a strap on 😄

Other old sayings which I've heard in Limerick would be "He would ate the eyes out of your head and come back for the eyelids" and "He would ate the cross off an ass", basically describing a glutton.

Sebstian, I think the joke was on the priest there.

He was being told it was none of his fúcking business, in the nicest way possible.