Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

English words and expressions used in Ireland only

1356789

Comments

  • #62
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I'll be there now in a minute

    :pac:


  • #63
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    When you find something hard to believe "ah, would you f.uck off" Americans in particular seem to take this literally:) In fact americans hate being told to f.uck off, or f.uck you or any variation of same. Paddys love the word f.uck, and mostly use it almost as a term of endearment, you'd really have to be annoyed to tell someone you don't like to f.uck off but you wouldn't think twice about saying it to your mother! In fact this i sthe point that the PC brigade miss completely - THE TRUE MEANING COMES FROM THE SPEAKER, NOT FROM THE WORD!!!


  • #64
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Would you ever....
    buns...
    runners...
    knackers...
    Deleted User wrote: »
    These are commonly used in England as well. :P

    They probably are, I hadn't heard anyone use them in RL until I moved here, though. :p


  • #65
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    "Tell me this and tell me no more"


    Although maybe that's just my parents...


  • #66
    changes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭changes


    People in donegal who put the word wild into any sentance at all.

    Wild hard, wild fast, i'm wild sick etc

    Some of my scottish friends found it strange when i would end a phone call with - 'right good luck' meaning goodbye.


  • Advertisement
  • #67
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    If someone's a 'cod': they're a messer / spoofer.
    Not a type of fish ;)


  • #68
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Just in case you missed it the first time:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055431870&highlight=hiberno


  • #69
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    Howard the Duck wrote: »
    Micky Flanagan? Not really only used in Ireland as he's an English comedian.
    He certainly has an English name anyway :D


  • #70
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    A mate of mine who made a trip to Kerry with his then girlfriend, he walked into her local and the barman said, ''it is yourself that's in it?'' he was stumped, he didn't know who else it could be if it wasn't himself that walked in.


  • #71
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    "Stick" - "I cant stick listening to yerman" or "The priest bored the hole off me in mass, couldnt stick it"...............er..........you know what i mean! ;)


    Once used "stick" to an american. Like i was talkin swahili. Even moreso than usual.


  • Advertisement
  • #72
    yeahimhere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭yeahimhere


    phasers wrote: »
    "Tell me this and tell me no more"


    Although maybe that's just my parents...

    hehe nope, mine too. My mother's quite fond of that one and "fancy that and the price of butter..."


  • #73
    annieoburns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭annieoburns


    Being sent to "do the messages" as a child in England and getting a blank look when asked for "sliced pan" (pre supermarket = that dates me :))

    We use bold as in 'you bold child' when English people would say 'naughty' and they would understand bold as 'brave' instead


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    If someone's a 'cod': they're a messer / spoofer.
    Not a type of fish ;)

    or thats "codology" when someone makes a statement you don't agree with/is stupid.

    I use that one quite often.


  • #75
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    a friend of mine from kerry always uses the expression ' a b c'

    she would be saying something and always ends the sentence with it. something like - 'she went to get shopping and the place was packed, ye know, a b c'


  • #76
    window_licker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭window_licker


    Tomebagel wrote: »
    christ on a bike

    With no helmet, or like my twelve year old cousin likes to say, christ on a dyke with no Johnny :O
    dub02 wrote: »
    I live with alot of Jamaicans and Trinidadians here in New York and they to use a broken form of English too (alot worse than ours btw) called patois or creole.

    Like ours, its funny but very interesting, I've come to the conclusion that like my Caribbean friends...I'm from a small island too thats being influenced by a larger country so in order to create some differences or identity we've developed small changes in the most basic of things....the language, food, mannerisms

    On a side note...they absolutely love it when i say "whats the story" or call them "horse" or "boss". Also, how can I put this mildly... sometimes you can hear a country twang off the Trinidadians:eek: i do be in tears especially when they say "hey boy" I read somewhere before that centuries ago Irish farmers from the west immigrated to the Caribbean so who knows.

    Irish surnames are also very common throughout the Caribbean islands...i have friends with Prendergast, McDonagh, Brown etc...:)

    ;)



    Snappin'! There's one.
    Putting "pure" in front of everything, I was Pure Locked
    Theres a nother one! Locked!


  • #77
    Bolag_the_2nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Bolag_the_2nd


    or i was "skuttered" last night, often leaves people speachless


  • #78
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    ''Sure I wuz only doin i' for da crack''

    ''Thats bleedin deadly''

    ''Ya ge' a rappa'' buzz off da''

    ''I hovered the house this morning'' no one outside Ireland knows what you did to the house.


  • #79
    miralize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    tackies (runners) - Limerick owns that bitches


  • #80
    Velvet shank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Velvet shank


    OH (from Sligo) when asking if something was good, often says 'was it any addition?'


  • #81
    miralize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    Velvet shank wrote: »
    OH (from Sligo) when asking if something was good, often says 'was it any addition?'
    they speak odd alright


  • Advertisement
  • #82
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Did ye lay pipe ?

    Savage....savage wavin....


    Ill let ye figure that one out ye'reselves....:D

    also

    does be or do be.
    I does be washing the dishes. I do be at the cinema.

    All above are probably regional to NorthEast area I reckon
    I know what that one means but I remember there was a poster in a thread not so long back saying his understanding of "Did ye lay pipe" translated into "did you take a shíte". At least that's what it was in his locality :confused:


  • #83
    BluesBerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    Are ya going for a Jar? (drink)


  • #84
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    a couple of obvious ones

    Ma (were like the only country to do it...others say mum or mom)
    Savage (as in awesome, everyone else thinks like savage dog)
    film (for some reason everyone in ireland prenounces it wrong)


  • #85
    kierank01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kierank01


    Mousey- wrote: »
    film (for some reason everyone in ireland prenounces it correctly)

    Fixed that for you :D


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    kierank01 wrote: »
    Fixed that for you :D

    filum: respelt it for yer! ;)


  • #87
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    My GF is English so had fun at times!

    press (cupboard)
    face cloth (flannel - cracked me hole when she asked for a flannel one day....hadn't a clue what she was on about!)
    craic (her father used to think I was on about crack (he admitted to be worried when I said one time we great craic at the wkend!)
    runners (trainers)
    tracksuit bottoms/legs (jogging trousers)
    ya tool/spanner (idiot)

    lots more I can't remember now....


  • #88
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    dub02 wrote: »
    I live with alot of Jamaicans and Trinidadians here in New York and they to use a broken form of English too (alot worse than ours btw) called patois or creole.

    The syntax of Jamaican English (patois) is actually closely related to West African languages. Trinidad has more French and Spanish influences.
    Like ours, its funny but very interesting, I've come to the conclusion that like my Caribbean friends...I'm from a small island too thats being influenced by a larger country so in order to create some differences or identity we've developed small changes in the most basic of things....the language, food, mannerisms

    On a side note...they absolutely love it when i say "whats the story" or call them "horse" or "boss". Also, how can I put this mildly... sometimes you can hear a country twang off the Trinidadians:eek: i do be in tears especially when they say "hey boy" I read somewhere before that centuries ago Irish farmers from the west immigrated to the Caribbean so who knows.

    Some Trinidadian men do call one another "horse". Trinidadians and Guyanese call one another "boy" but it is generally hated by Jamaicans and African-Americans as it's a throw-back to slavery when even grown men were called boy.

    There were lots of Irish transported by the British to the Caribbean. Even though the British saw them as second-class (and in some cases as sub-human) they were higher up the pecking order than the slaves and were thus given positions of authority such as foremen, etc. If you ever Montserrat you would be amazed at how Irish it is. Lots of Irish surnames and placenames, and they celebrate St. Patrick's Day too!
    Irish surnames are also very common throughout the Caribbean islands...i have friends with Prendergast, McDonagh, Brown etc...:)

    Prendergast is particulary common in Jamaica. It's not unusual to hear other Irish surnames in the other islands. I actually know a woman named Siobhan O'Brien!


  • #89
    Duddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭Duddy


    People in Gweedore, Co.Donegal -have relations there- say

    "Big Wow" as in "Aw he thought he was a big wow" or "She was a big wow altogether"

    Usually derisive/sarcastic, something thats meant to be great, but clearly isn't.


    Also, in Skanger Donegal: "G'Laaaaaaaaack"

    G'laaaack = Good luck = Goodbye


  • #90
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Gyalist wrote: »
    Prendergast is particulary common in Jamaica. It's not unusual to hear other Irish surnames in the other islands. I actually know a woman named Siobhan O'Brien!
    Burke is another one. This ties in with the Haiti thread on Irish slave-owners. :)


  • Advertisement
  • #91
    Saint Ruth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Saint Ruth


    Mmm....Sambo...?

    Apparently it's a racial slur in more barbarious parts of the world.


Advertisement
Advertisement