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Best Donegal Slang

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    #62
    shogunpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭shogunpower


    oul dog for the hard road, and the pup for the foot path....


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    #63
    sweet girl
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭sweet girl


    Toul. As in "Now dont say ye werent toul" (sp??)


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    #64
    Aligator Farmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 104 ✭✭Aligator Farmer


    Here's one my Dad uses, which roughly translates as "He hasn't much common sense"

    "He's a spoon fed gulpin"


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    #65
    Carrickman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Carrickman


    It's cat since the dog died.


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    #66
    mamakevf
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭mamakevf


    Kwet footerin' wi yersel.:D


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    #67
    EAFC_rdfl
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭EAFC_rdfl


    'clouster' is a good wan. i mind lads from killybegs not even knowin what it meant.
    its wile handy as can cover a lot of situations, mainly for somebody thats awkward or messy.
    for flukes sake is another one. abeen the road = above the road


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    #68
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,820 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    St. Johnston/Porthall people have some weird pronunciations. Its a half Scottish dialect. You would hear them say something like "Its aye raining" (its always raining) and things like boards and doors are pronounced bourds and dours or dowers! Instead of saying "you're wrong" they would say "yer wrang"

    Puts me in mind of a guy who went into a little bakery shop in St. Johnston and was looking at the selection of lovely things on display. He seen a couple of items that caught his eye and pointing at them he asked the girl who was working....."Is that a gateaux or a meringue" The girl looked at him and said "No, you're right"


    (think about it)


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    #69
    North_West_Art
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭North_West_Art


    whats the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney?

    A: Bing sings, but Walt Disney


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    #70
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,703 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    I lived up there for a year in mid 90s, a popular one i remember for driving fast was " stagin" .


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    #71
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users Posts: 7,547 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Jaysus, the half of these I didn't even realise they were only said in Donegal :D It's no wonder I got rare looks the last day! :p

    The only one I pulled up about was when I said ''Awk it's grand'' to someone from England.


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    #72
    muckish
    Registered Users Posts: 610 ✭✭✭muckish


    Driving directions fray Manor heading tay Newton


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    #73
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    I suppose it's as good a place as any

    A Ballybofey man is on mastermind and it's his turn for his special subject. Magnus Magnusson welcomes Mr Doherty to the hot seat;

    "So Mr Doherty you have chosen Jazz as your special subject, are you ready"
    "Sure am sir"
    First question "What was the name of Miles Davis' first album?"
    "Don't know sir"
    Second question "What was the name of the famous Jazz Club in New York that gave it's name to one of that citys nick names?"
    "I couldn't tell you sir"
    Doherty keeps getting bombared with really difficult questions on jazz and gets none right.

    The buzzer goes and Magnus Magnsusson announces that Mr Doherty scored zero points.

    The camera stops rolling and Magnus Mgnusson says "excuse me Mr Doherty but I fond it unusual you didn't get any of your specialist questions right, do you know anything about Jazz?"

    Mr Doherty says "aye jazz sir, that film with the big shark sure I seen it about a hundred times"


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    #74
    eskimocat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭eskimocat


    sup_dude wrote: »
    Jaysus, the half of these I didn't even realise they were only said in Donegal :D It's no wonder I got rare looks the last day! :p

    The only one I pulled up about was when I said ''Awk it's grand'' to someone from England.

    I thought that for years!! still get caught out with people asking what am i saying!! then add in a smattering of irish into the mix and you get some really funny looks...

    Thought on another one, Donegal got a right pasting... during the storm :)


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    #75
    Rds1989
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Rds1989


    Wow i havent checked on this thread in a few days, great response guys. We sure do have some weird words and phrases. Does anyone know if it any of them come from ulster scots or donegal irish


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    #76
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,820 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Howl yer whisht (be quiet)


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    #77
    Durnish
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭Durnish


    aren't the ones like didny canny, wasny etc all Ulster-Scatty, from the Laggan area, good farmland round the Finn, Foyle and so on? Some of the western stuff is from Glasgae dialect, like fiddle music it's all interlinked, say vray? (UlsterFrench) . Then there's Irish sentence construction and stopping, like like, but, hi.


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    shogunpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭shogunpower


    where ye fray,
    porthaall,
    hows yer purdies?
    big or smaall?
    how de ye eat them?
    skins n aaall.
    where ye fray?
    porthaall


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    #79
    slimboyfat
    Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭slimboyfat


    Sure its a grand soft day.


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    #80
    sweet girl
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭sweet girl


    Im not sure if this one has been posted before,"sure im only taking a hand at ya"


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    #81
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,820 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    shogunpower wrote: »
    where ye fray,
    porthaall,
    hows yer purdies?
    big or smaall?
    how de ye eat them?
    skins n aaall.
    where ye fray?
    porthaall
    Long time since I heard that :)


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    Penfailed
    Registered Users Posts: 7,474 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    shogunpower wrote: »
    porthaall

    'cuse my ignorance. Where's Portaall? :confused:

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Public Service Broadcasting, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



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    #83
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,820 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Penfailed wrote: »
    'cuse my ignorance. Where's Portaall? :confused:
    Porthall is the proper title but gemerally called Poorthaall by the locals.

    Its about 3 miles from Lifford on the St. Johnston road - google link


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    The Mary Clarke
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭The Mary Clarke


    sweet girl wrote: »
    Im not sure if this one has been posted before,"sure im only taking a hand at ya"
    Yeah I would definitely consider that "Donegal". I am a blow in for the past eleven years and only heard this used by Donegal people.
    One that really got me was "Starved".
    I worked in a fish factory when I first came here. One evening we had to work late and one of the guys said to me "I'm starved"...I told him not to worry that I had loads of extra sandwiches and that he was more than welcome to them:o:o...He just meant that he was cold!
    Some of the sayings I have seen posted on here I have heard in other parts of Ireland so I would not say that they are just Donegal Slang but others...damn I almost needed a translator when I moved here first :o
    Great County and Great people though:):)


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    #85
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,000 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    yer some uasceain
    wrote aff
    Inta the tide withem!


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    #86
    Dr. Fell
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Dr. Fell


    byte wrote: »
    "the Gap"

    Pronounced "The Geap"


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    #87
    Delber
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Delber


    What about "Young Cutty" for a girl or a "wheen" for a few or just plain old "SIR"


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    #88
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Twas tight goin' sir

    Aye that cuttys wile door

    No harm to you but.....(said when theres bad news on the way)

    Put you that there pint down hai


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    #89
    odonnellcarey
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭odonnellcarey


    unknownlegend wrote: »
    Also very confusing to people in Dublin in my experience is denoting your shopping as "messages", eg "got a few bags of messages in dunnes earlier". It's like speaking in tongues when ya speak fast on a phone to a local I'm told :pac:

    Have to disagree with that. Messages is a common term for groceries in Dublin.


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    #90
    North_West_Art
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭North_West_Art


    just thought Id mention, in case anyone didn't know, that 'messages' refers to actual written messages that people would have left for each other in the local shop years ago in days before the telephone..


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    Madam
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    quare

    As in 'how's the quare one the day?'(does that mean 'odd' or something else, never could understand that one?) or how about 'It's a quare day the day'.


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