Best Donegal Slang

sesswhat · 02-06-2011 12:21PM

Madam wrote: »

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'.

'Tis a quare day alright'. Quare would usually just mean 'great' if you are talking about weather, pirties, or various body parts

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The 'quare one' or 'quare fella' on the other hand is just a version of queer, or as you say, odd. This would be common enough through the country.

Madam · 02-06-2011 02:35PM

The 'quare one' or 'quare fella' on the other hand is just a version of queer, or as you say, odd. This would be common enough through the country.[/QUOTE]

Oh I see, time to get the cousins back for asking that of my brothers(meaning me - I was very quiet as a teenager);)

shogunpower · 03-06-2011 08:21PM

the qwuer one doesnt have anything to so with queer, its like saying, yer mans a qwuer buck, which means that yer man is sum buck..

Penfailed · 04-06-2011 12:18AM

Great thread. Most of the slang isn't exclusive to Donegal though. Very few IMHO. 'yock' instead of car is definitely in there though

Cee-Jay-Cee · 05-06-2011 01:04PM

Theres a wile droot on me - I'm very thirsty
Pishin wi rain - Pouring rain
Pure scundered/scunnerd - Really pee'd off.

When i was at school there was a lot of slang used, dont know if it was a letterkenny thing or county wide, some that i remember

Makes - money
Yaks/Nyaks - cigarettes
Staish - look
Minx - travellers
Strides - trousers
Shades - guards
Chats - Breasts/Boobs (as in staish the chats on yer doll!)
Sketch - Run (usually when you were found doing something wrong)

mamakevf · 05-06-2011 03:43PM

Wer 'r ye fray?(Where are you from?)
Up abeen Corky (I'm from Corky)
Aye, deed sowl sur. (Ah yes, I know where you are from now):D

mikedone · 06-06-2011 01:33AM

Bastes: Cattle as in "Hae ye ony bastes?" "Damn a wan an' Ah got rid o' the animals as well" the animals were sheep
Miggy: Hat particularly the "beany"
Stabs: Fence posts. This caused an English colleague of mine a lot of confusion when he was putting up a fence at his home and the delivery man told him he had "the load o' stabs ye ordered"
Thonner: There as in "It's ower thonner agin the stab"
Thole: Suffer or endure
Gimp: Demeanor particularly if one is suspicious as in "Ah don't trust the gimp on thon boy"
Footy: Can mean small or frail depending on context "Thon's a wile footy wain" "Poor auld Paddy he's got wile footy the last wheen o' days

And last but not least a wonderful expression I have never heard anywhere else regarding a deceased person "I hope (s)he is happy"

Porter986 · 06-06-2011 09:30AM

Naw ta tall - (not at all)

CSU · 06-06-2011 09:37AM

was in Bunbeg for a weekend ( kicking town):D

Pub sign read - "NO RUMMERS ALLOWED"

mamakevf · 06-06-2011 05:41PM

^^^^ Probably meant 'No Runners allowed' ie.trainers/sneakers.
At first I thought there might have been something wrong with the 'R'.:D

CSU · 06-06-2011 05:52PM

mamakevf wrote: »

^^^^ Probably meant 'No Runners allowed' ie.trainers/sneakers.
At first I thought there might have been something wrong with the 'R'.:D

...could have meant a few things / me thinks...

"NO DRUMMERS ALLOWED"
(PEOPLE WHOM DRINK RUM NOT ALLOWED)
(could have literally meant "RUMMERS" (A large and tall glass, or drinking cup.)
"NO GUMMERS ALLOWED" (A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.)

...anyway's, I thought twas DOnegal slang for trainers:D

irish1967 · 06-06-2011 07:47PM

Big new sign outside Central Hotel, Donegal Town.

STOUT €3.80
LARGER €3.90

Seems sign writers need to concentrate more.

Ronan Keating · 06-06-2011 07:48PM

Take a photo.

annascott · 07-06-2011 12:07AM

I have heard older people say "weemen" for women and "kittling" instead of kitten.

implausible · 07-06-2011 12:43AM

CJC999 wrote: »

When i was at school there was a lot of slang used, dont know if it was a letterkenny thing or county wide, some that i remember

Makes - money
Yaks/Nyaks - cigarettes
Staish - look
Minx - travellers
Strides - trousers
Shades - guards
Chats - Breasts/Boobs (as in staish the chats on yer doll!)
Sketch - Run (usually when you were found doing something wrong)

I first heard these phrases from a Tuam friend of mine, he also called runners 'skates'. Couldn't believe it when I heard the young fellas at school using them and calling each other 'sham', must be a 'townie' thing!

Cee-Jay-Cee · 07-06-2011 11:22AM

annascott wrote: »

I have heard older people say "weemen" for women and "kittling" instead of kitten.

I think weemin/weemen is more to do with pronounciation rather than being a slang word, its just that people have now taken to spelling it as its pronounced....and its not just old people that say/use it.

yuloni · 10-06-2011 07:19PM

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mikedone · 10-06-2011 10:35PM

Condi wrote: »

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EVERY sentence?!? That's news ta me hi sir LOL

Ronan Keating · 10-06-2011 11:13PM

Another saying: "ah scutch ya hay ya dirty rotten soldier".

MsQuinn · 10-06-2011 11:33PM

CJC999 wrote: »

When i was at school there was a lot of slang used, dont know if it was a letterkenny thing or county wide, some that i remember

Makes - money
Yaks/Nyaks - cigarettes
Staish - look
Minx - travellers
Strides - trousers
Shades - guards
Chats - Breasts/Boobs (as in staish the chats on yer doll!)
Sketch - Run (usually when you were found doing something wrong)

I remember those too. Were they not part of the travellers language rather than Donegal speak. There was sham (guy) and biour (girl) also thrown in there.

Might be wrong.

Noreen1 · 10-06-2011 11:38PM

CJC999 wrote: »

Theres a wile droot on me - I'm very thirsty
Pishin wi rain - Pouring rain
Pure scundered/scunnerd - Really pee'd off.

When i was at school there was a lot of slang used, dont know if it was a letterkenny thing or county wide, some that i remember

Makes - money
Yaks/Nyaks - cigarettes
Staish - look
Minx - travellers
Strides - trousers
Shades - guards
Chats - Breasts/Boobs (as in staish the chats on yer doll!)
Sketch - Run (usually when you were found doing something wrong)

I don't spend enough time around Letterkenny, it seems.:D
I've never heard any of the bolded text - and I've lived in Donegal for most of my life.....

muffler · 10-06-2011 11:42PM

Noreen1 wrote: »

I've never heard any of the bolded text - and I've lived in Donegal for most of my life.....

Ditto.

I've no idea where people have heard those.

homer simpson · 10-06-2011 11:49PM

muffler wrote: »

Ditto.

I've no idea where people have heard those.

You's are just getting too old to have heard them

:pac:

Ronan Keating · 10-06-2011 11:57PM

muffler wrote: »

Ditto.

I've no idea where people have heard those.

I would have thought staish and sketch were comon enough.

Noreen1 · 11-06-2011 12:37AM

homer_simpson wrote: »

You's are just getting too old to have heard them :pac:

He's in good company, so!:p:D:D

MsQuinn · 11-06-2011 02:05AM

homer_simpson wrote: »

You's are just getting too old to have heard them :pac:

Was "yous" (yooooss) done yet. Aparantely it's proper english

More southerly folk frown at me when I say it.

And what about "that there". Have been slagged about that for years. The usuual response is "what where".

Madam · 11-06-2011 11:39AM

Strides - trousers

It's more Australian slang than Donegaleese;)

Madam · 11-06-2011 11:42AM

I've often wondered why folk(maybe the older ones)in Donegal say their going 'up' to Dublin(Sligo or wherever)

muffler · 11-06-2011 12:50PM

homer_simpson wrote: »

You's are just getting too old to have heard them :pac:

Listen here garson

Ronan Keating · 11-06-2011 01:12PM

Madam wrote: »

I've often wondered why folk(maybe the older ones)in Donegal say their going 'up' to Dublin(Sligo or wherever)

Donegal people realise they're lower class!

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