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Great Galway sayings

  • 01-10-2010 07:33PM
    #1
    Dr McManus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭


    Does anyone know any great Galway sayings?
    I'm hanging on like a loose button, is one of my favourites,


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  • #2
    jkforde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭jkforde


    I for one am getting tired of you constantly looking for information from users of this forum. Fact.


  • #3
    bat boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭bat boy


    jkforde wrote: »
    I for one am getting tired of you constantly looking for information from users of this forum. Fact.

    Ah, leave him alone. It's a perfectly valid thread to start.


  • #4
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,083 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    How do you distinguish a Galway saying from a general west-of-Ireland one, so?


  • #5
    doubleglaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭doubleglaze


    A Chuint!


  • #6
    SlipperyPeople
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    pure and tome

    pure tome


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  • #7
    ?Cee?view
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,981 ✭✭✭?Cee?view


    brmccfc wrote: »
    pure and tome

    pure tome

    Would that not be more of a Tuam saying?


  • #8
    Col200sx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭Col200sx


    Howya loveen..... or

    How's your-sel

    Claddagh and Shantalla there :D


  • #9
    Starie1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    Col200sx wrote: »
    Howya loveen..... or

    How's your-sel

    Claddagh and Shantalla there :D


    +1


  • #10
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    head off. g'way from around me, the head on ya:p


  • #11
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    churchview wrote: »
    Would that not be more of a Tuam saying?

    Nope thats Galway City thru n thru, we were using that at age 15 onwards but instead of tome we now use "Aw Class":D


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  • #12
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Dr McManus wrote: »
    I'm hanging on like a loose button, is one of my favourites,

    I have never ever ever ever heard of that and im a Galwegian Born n' bred.

    Ya melt...:D <---One of my mates came up with that one.


  • #13
    Col200sx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭Col200sx


    Steyr wrote: »
    I have never ever ever ever heard of that and im a Galwegian Born n' bred.

    Me too. Never heard of that, and around a looooooong time ;)

    Also, don't forget:

    How's a goin 'oul stock


  • #14
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Col200sx wrote: »

    How's a goin 'oul stock

    How ya keeping? were ya out!


  • #15
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Never heard it either.

    Is "Now for ya" , as in "now for ya...what do you think of that?" ,a Galway thing or is it countrywide? I've only heard Galway people saying it.


  • #16
    inisboffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    Definitely 'class' heard in Wexford years ago, and the head on ya is for sure Dub as well as Galway. So many phrases migrate though, it'd be hard to tell.
    +1 on loveen tho!


  • #17
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Feek, Handicap, Feen, Beure, Mace, Tome, Bagel, Mong, Truth.

    Howya loveen. Did that feen feek ya last night down behind the centre, you were makin' some queer noises - sham.


  • #18
    TristanPeter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 717 ✭✭✭TristanPeter


    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    Feek, Handicap, Feen, Beure, Mace, Tome, Bagel, Mong, Truth.

    Howya loveen. Did that feen feek ya last night down behind the centre, you were makin' some queer noises - sham.

    That's pure gomie talk!


  • #19
    Dr McManus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Dr McManus


    JustMary wrote: »
    How do you distinguish a Galway saying from a general west-of-Ireland one, so?

    Something which is commonly said in Galway.
    I am also interested in hearing any West of Ireland sayings though.


  • #20
    Dr McManus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Dr McManus


    jkforde wrote: »
    I for one am getting tired of you constantly looking for information from users of this forum. Fact.

    Thank you for your contribution.
    Please can you make an effort to stay on topic.
    If you have nothing good to say, then don't say anything.
    If you are tired of my threads, then don't read them.


  • #21
    Dr McManus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Dr McManus


    Thanks a million.


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  • #22
    inisboffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    The etymology of a some of those unusual ones (many heard Tuamside) are actually :D from Gammon, Cant and Latin! Now for ya!


  • #23
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    TristanPeter wrote: »
    That's pure gomie talk!

    Go away from around meee youngflaa before I bate ya. I'll put your teeth in your belly.


  • #24
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqkpIb9Mk3s

    "She wore the cock off me"

    Plenty to choose from in that little gem..


  • #25
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Definitely anything with a 'een' stuck onto the end of a word-eg loveen, dogeen, girleen etc etc. Never heard the like before i moved to Galway.

    Suppose they would be more phrases than sayings,but ya get my drift! :D


  • #26
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Relevant: Local Bargains


  • #27
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    majiktripp wrote: »
    "She wore the cock off me"

    Plenty to choose from in that little gem..
    "My jaw was up around my ears"

    "Beors" [b-yoers]

    "...most were k*****r affiliated though"

    "Pulled an absolute brute"

    "C'mon, let's go into the rock and roll and collect our free money"


  • #28
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭ErnieBert


    "Are you going out out?" when enquiring if someone is going to a night club.

    "Talk to ya" is a classic Galway way of saying bye.

    "Poke" mans to make love to.

    "Lip" implies thirst for alcohol.


  • #29
    fish fingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭fish fingers


    "Crushing". Meaning your going somewhere.


  • #30
    LadyMayBelle
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    Look at the head on yer man, or "the head on ya", which is a term of endearment towards a friend who got 'mouldy' last night


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  • #31
    Tomebagel
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    Wats the shtory trout?

    Ya goin for a jive tonight/Had a serious jive lasnight/ya jiver/stop your jivin.

    Are ya wide sham?

    Go for the buzz mongface


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