Regional Slang

Killer Wench · 20-05-2011 11:20PM #1

In another thread, I wrote, "Gee, I'm tired of my penis" or something along those lines and I saw a few comments about the term "gee". I had no idea that it has a different connotation in Ireland than in the US. In the US, it generally equates to someone who's pondering something as in "gee, I don't know."

I guess that's why I got a few funny looks from my co-workers a few days back. :pac:

thehairyelbow · 20-05-2011 11:21PM

Yippppeee............. this is gonna be fun...

El Weirdo · 20-05-2011 11:22PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

In another thread, I wrote, "Gee, I'm tired of my penis" or something along those lines and I saw a few comments about the term "gee". I had no idea that it has a different connotation in Ireland than in the US. In the US, it generally equates to someone who's pondering something as in "gee, I don't know."

I guess that's why I got a few funny looks from my co-workers a few days back. :pac:

Pronounced differently. One is a hard "g" the other soft.

Latchy · 20-05-2011 11:22PM

Just like fanny in USA has different meaning in Ireland / UK

SadieSue · 20-05-2011 11:23PM

Gee with a hard G (lol) is slang for the lady parts. I saw that post and had a giggle.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 20-05-2011 11:23PM

Just wait until you say "yeah I rode yer ma up the gicker"

cml387 · 20-05-2011 11:25PM

benwavner wrote: »

Just wait until you say "yeah I rode yer ma up the gicker"

or "gowl"

themadchef · 20-05-2011 11:28PM

Why are you tired of your Mickey?

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 20-05-2011 11:30PM

In Castlebar people tend to say "That's bertie!" if something is a bit "mad"
No one else get's it, they look around for the weasel ahern

Latchy · 20-05-2011 11:33PM

There's a famous 60's band called Hermans Hermits but in some parts of north west/north east England they are refered to as '' Ermins Ermits '' ...

cracks me up whenever I hear it

cml387 · 20-05-2011 11:33PM

themadchef wrote: »

Why are you tired of your Mickey?

She has "issues".It's best not to ask.

Rds1989 · 20-05-2011 11:36PM

in donegal a nice car is called a quare yock, your mother is your oul doll and theres a load more

theboss80 · 20-05-2011 11:43PM

Rds1989 wrote: »

in donegal a nice car is called a quare yock, your mother is your oul doll and theres a load more

Wain = child

Wile = very ie ITs wile cold hi

Brae = hill

Hill = Bog

kfallon · 20-05-2011 11:54PM

"Ya geebag"

Best. Phrase. Ever.

ImpossibleDuck · 21-05-2011 01:49AM

theboss80 wrote: »

Wain = child

Wile = very ie ITs wile cold hi

Brae = hill

Hill = Bog

This.

Jaysus I love Donegal slang like a completely different language up here.

To an American "Aye sure wasn't it a wile hanlin"

Cue absolute bemusement :P

And another one this is used up here in inishowen and in the north too i think; One word: Arn'tenya? = Are you not?

Arn'tenya going the pub th'mara? :P

Oranage2 · 21-05-2011 01:54AM

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

thebman · 21-05-2011 03:15AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

I'd expect nothing less from an Orange Man. Someone beat you to the number one spot eh?

No wonder when you come out with crap like that :pac:

IrishEyes19 · 21-05-2011 03:39AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

Your spelling of country is wrong, might want to cross education/reading/writing of the list there :cool:

catweasel10 · 21-05-2011 03:46AM

In Belfast a poke = ice-cream with a flake in it. It means something entirely different where I'm from.

fontanalis · 21-05-2011 03:50AM

theboss80 wrote: »

Wain = child

Wile = very ie ITs wile cold hi

Brae = hill

Hill = Bog

In order of size
fair bit
good bit
brave bit

Paddy Cow · 21-05-2011 04:30AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

A few words in dublin we say that the coumtry folk dont under stand

Dub - Country folk

car = Horse and cart
Education/reading/writing = Learning to herd livestock
Foreign holiday = Achill island

As a person from Achill, here's how I understand those words:

Dub - Person from Dublin. Usually of sound disposition but the odd one in an attempt to be clever and funny will show themselves up as semi-literate and inarticulate
Car - Mechanical vehicle to travel from place to place
Education/reading/writing - Learning the skills to comminicate your thoughts to other people in a clear and concise manner
Foreign holiday - Holiday outside of Ireland and the UK

Your post had potential to be funny but the execution was poor :P

mr biazzi · 21-05-2011 07:13AM

Has Tuam Been mentioned?

jclally · 21-05-2011 07:50AM

Growing up in clare, everyone called runners "tackies". Never heard it anywhere else.

I met a friend of my dads from mayo on all ireland day a few years back, and ur told me him and my dad "were like ****e on a blanket".... I was worried til someone told me it meant inseperable.

Bring your own blankets if youre ever in belmullet....

sollar · 21-05-2011 08:59AM

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

To an American "Aye sure wasn't it a wile hanlin"

Wile is a word that seems to have many meanings.

If someone says - wasn't it terrible about what happened to aul francie

The response in donegal could be.... aye wile sir! meaning yeah it was terrible.

or

I heard francie hit paddy last night - Aye, he hit him a wile slap.

or

wile cold, wile far, its a wile distance, wile carry on last night.

WindSock · 21-05-2011 09:11AM

What happened that rapper named gee bag? Seems to have gone from the net.

Zebra3 · 21-05-2011 09:15AM

A meat tea is some sort of meal boggers apparently feast on during days out up to the big Shmoke for whatever happens in Croker.

deisedevil · 21-05-2011 09:20AM

In Waterford the use of the word wicked.

It's wicked bad. It's wicked good. It's a wicked shame. Your wicked thick.

I think a lot of counties do something similar. Like in Wexford and some other counties they use Quer instead of wicked and in Donegal as said above they use Wile.

TaraFoxglove · 21-05-2011 10:47AM

Is 'scan' a nationwide thing? Pronounced sshkan.

Is used in Connaught a lot.

WesternZulu · 21-05-2011 11:13AM

TaraFoxglove wrote: »

Is 'scan' a nationwide thing? Pronounced sshkan.

Is used in Connaught a lot.

It's just a West of Ireland thing.

As is "Howya now sskkan"

fuerte1976 · 21-05-2011 11:19AM

Down here I call homosexuals 'crafty butchers'.
They like to take their meat in around the back...

(not homophobic btw)

I've plenty more too

brummytom · 21-05-2011 11:56AM

'So you found us then?' 'Eventually, I've been all round the Rekin!'

Gambole = a forward roll
Outdoor = Off-licence
Island = Roundabout

Apparently 'Mardy's a Brum word too, but that seems quite a well-known word now.
And apparently 'cob' is unique to Birmingham (as in a bread roll).

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