Regional word for knackers/scumbags.

orangerooster · 25-02-2004 09:55PM #1

Hmm im just after noticing that the word knacker/scumbag does not apply to Anto,Steo etc throughout the country in particular that they are called Scwahs in Navan,Langers in Cork etc.So do you have any regional slang for knacks from the flats and their various incarnations across the country?

Pacifico · 25-02-2004 09:59PM

Skobs and scumbags here in Limk

Stark · 25-02-2004 10:08PM

I assumed langer was just another word for asshole down in Cork. I find that in Cork anything goes, I often borrow the word scobe.

passive · 25-02-2004 11:50PM

it's always been skanger around here (Dublin) but i've been hearing scobe a lot recently...its a pretty good word too.

commuterised · 26-02-2004 12:11PM

skobos outside my house

Stark · 26-02-2004 12:15PM

Sucks was one that we used down in Cork

parasite · 26-02-2004 12:21PM

in cork: wackers or waaaas , with extra a's for degrees of skobiness :rolleyes:

Skud · 26-02-2004 12:26PM

fyi langer originally means food hall...
in cork it mainly scumbags knackers etc i know some ppl use pikey but that's the english influence. Pavys and scobes are two more

Gearoid · 26-02-2004 12:32PM

Sham

AL][EN · 26-02-2004 12:42PM

Originally posted by Gearoid
Sham

yea likewise its sham here in waterford.

ErinGoBrath · 26-02-2004 12:47PM

Skobes from my Dundalk days and Sham now I'm in the big smoke...

uberwolf · 26-02-2004 12:48PM

Originally posted by parasite
in cork: wackers or waaaas , with extra a's for degrees of skobiness :rolleyes:

the word schwaaaaah is one I've heard on my travels, similar emphais on a's

Big Chief · 26-02-2004 12:56PM

neds

rymus · 26-02-2004 12:57PM

"waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa's", I just love that word! Haven't used it in ages. I must use it before the week is out.

I've only ever really used
Wackers
Scobes/Skobies
Shams
Norrys (technically offensive to the rest of the northside I know)
Feens

and about ten others that I cant quite put my finger on now.

cournioni · 26-02-2004 12:59PM

I think they call them larriers in Dundalk.

AL][EN · 26-02-2004 12:59PM

Actually schwaaaaah (which i find impossible to pronounce for some reason) is a word ive herd some of my friends in dublin use recently for knacks i have no idea where it comes from tho!!

spongebob · 26-02-2004 01:11PM

Dubs

kopijack · 26-02-2004 01:13PM

Stokes in Derry..

Spides in Belfast-

cournioni · 26-02-2004 01:14PM

We just call them scummers in Cavan...

Mossy Monk · 26-02-2004 02:35PM

knackers, scumbags and shams

Senor_Fudge · 26-02-2004 02:42PM

shams here in galway sure amnt i living beside the sham capital - Tuam

BoB_BoT · 26-02-2004 02:47PM

couple of us call em Comanches in Athlone.

Seraphina · 26-02-2004 03:08PM

schwaaaaaaaa comes from the annoying accents

LoneGunM@n · 26-02-2004 04:59PM

I've just read a book by Ross O'Carroll Kelly [parody] that uses AJHs .... or in other words Ah Jaysus Howya

quank · 26-02-2004 05:10PM

skangers
schwaah
scumbags
wanna-be skangers
skanks
et cetera

Catsmokinpot · 26-02-2004 05:19PM

bla's - waterford scumbags
skangers
scumbags - sometimes followed by schwaaaaah!!!
scum

drunken student scum are also called hicks! and they all go out in hicktown - oxygen, rubys area of waterford

irlirishkev · 26-02-2004 05:43PM

1) nacks - short for nackars
2) creamers - short for cream crackers (nackars)
3) scum

Those are the ones i'd use mostly..

Kevin.

Kold · 26-02-2004 05:58PM

Scobes, knackers, scumbags, travvys, pikeys and gyppos... That's just my group... Cork

BigEejit · 26-02-2004 06:43PM

Originally posted by Catsmokinpot
bla's - waterford scumbags

I thought a blaa was a type of bread in Waaatorfurd

In fact it is

byte · 26-02-2004 07:20PM

Knackbags (cross between knacker and scumbag)
Scumbags
Tramp
Scummers

simu · 27-02-2004 02:29AM

In Cork:

knacker, whacker, scobe, fien, stella (for the females ones), scumbags, norrie, waaaah etc

Langer just means an *rsehole.

It's funny how a similar scumbag culture has developed not just in Irish towns and cities but all over Europe (well, France and England anyway, in my experience) despite the fact that these people are not generally very well-travelled or given access to the media.

Regional word for knackers/scumbags.

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