Best Donegal Slang

CSU · 06-06-2011 5:52pm

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 7:47pm

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 7:48pm

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 7:19pm

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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 2:05am

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 1:12pm

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!

muffler · 11-06-2011 1:20pm

Ronan Keating wrote: »

Donegal people realise they're lower class!

Give people like you an inch and you take a yard.

You have trolled once to often on this forum so bye bye.

muffler · 11-06-2011 1:32pm

Madam wrote: »

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

I'd say it has more to do with Dublin being the capital city of Ireland.

In relation to Sligo I have no idea yet I have even used the phrase myself on numerous occasions

Madam · 11-06-2011 2:52pm

Is it a country thing do you think? - I was going to put culchie but did'nt want to offend;)

Madam · 11-06-2011 2:58pm

Has anyone mention thole or thoal? Aas in - 'she has a great thole' - meaning, she can hold her water;)

yuloni · 11-06-2011 3:38pm

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Rds1989 · 12-06-2011 7:47pm

A few more here from the laggan area.

Doon-down
wusnae-was not
whist-be quiet
redd-tidy
hame-home
brae-a slope
coddin-joking
crabbit-angry
purdies-potatoes
a wee cuttie-young girl
blabber-talk

implausible · 12-06-2011 10:22pm

Noreen1 wrote: »

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 wrote: »

I've no idea where people have heard those.

Ye need to spend more time around 15 year olds, especially the lads!

And speaking of 'ye', the same young lads go into convulsions every time I say it - it's more grammatically correct than 'yous'!

Noreen1 · 13-06-2011 7:05am

deemark wrote: »

Ye need to spend more time around 15 year olds, especially the lads!

And speaking of 'ye', the same young lads go into convulsions every time I say it - it's more grammatically correct than 'yous'!

Do 16 and 17 year old lads count?
My kids don't use those word - neither do their "mates". I've honestly never heard those words before, and I sometimes feel like I get far too much teenage company.:P:D:D

"Ye", on the other hand, gets used a lot around this house.....:D:D

Hootanany · 13-06-2011 7:11am

redd-tidy

Still cannot get my head around this one can anyone explain it

Noreen1 · 13-06-2011 7:16am

Hootanany wrote: »

redd-tidy

Still cannot get my head around this one can anyone explain it

redd = get rid (of clutter) = tidy (up).

Hootanany · 13-06-2011 7:26am

Noreen1 wrote: »

redd = get rid (of clutter) = tidy (up).

Thanks

Madam · 13-06-2011 1:22pm

Are most of those slang words we use not just Ulster/Scots words or derived from Irish? Like the word 'clabber' it that an Irish word for mud?

muffler · 13-06-2011 1:41pm

Drooked.........= got wet/drenched

Noreen1 · 13-06-2011 4:50pm

Madam wrote: »

Are most of those slang words we use not just Ulster/Scots words or derived from Irish? Like the word 'clabber' it that an Irish word for mud?

Clabber (spelled differently) is indeed the Irish word for mud.
I've been wondering about the Ulster/Scots connection myself, though I think it's mostly just localised dialects. Some of the slang used definitely has a Scots or Ulster connection, though.

lovebud · 14-06-2011 12:23am

ya big hallion ye

Dr. Bad Touch · 15-06-2011 4:38pm

RMDrive wrote: »

Staish the shape of the juck with the yock

Super 8 kids yo :cool:

Billy Bunting · 16-06-2011 12:06am

Done 6 pages an can do no more :P

How's she cuttin!!! culchies :eek:

mk2 · 30-06-2011 1:35pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wSTVMRkIk

muffler · 30-06-2011 1:50pm

It was going so well until wee Danieeeellllll appeared

Dr. Fell · 30-06-2011 5:07pm

Madam wrote: »

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

From Glencolmcille, you would go up to Dublin, down to Sligo, over to Strabane, out to Port, down to Killybegs but out to Kilcar.

Duddy · 01-07-2011 6:35am

I love around 5.08 on that video "A HAM SHURELAY!"

mac_iomhair · 01-07-2011 11:29am

I have only ever heard donegal people say the word "schlipe" or "slipe" ( id imagine thats hows it spelt) meaning to drag something along the ground. Maybe its Ulster Scots?
or porthaaaal

fontanalis · 01-07-2011 1:54pm

muffler wrote: »

It was going so well until wee Danieeeellllll appeared

His mullet wasn't that wee!

muffler · 01-07-2011 7:08pm

fontanalis wrote: »

His mullet wasn't that wee!

:eek:

Penfailed · 02-07-2011 2:05am

mac_iomhair wrote: »

I have only ever heard donegal people say the word "schlipe" or "slipe" ( id imagine thats hows it spelt) meaning to drag something along the ground. Maybe its Ulster Scots?
or porthaaaal

I've heard it in Derry too

Joannie · 02-07-2011 11:56am

One I haven't seen mentioned is "Skitter". A skitter is a brat or bauld wean but you can also have "the skitter" which is diarrhoea and you could even be served "skittery tay" - very weak tea.

deman · 03-07-2011 9:07am

mk2 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wSTVMRkIk

No Laggan accent??

Madam · 04-07-2011 2:18pm

deman wrote: »

No Laggan accent??

*Ahem* Is L'Kenny not in the laggan? - My parents used to have this row now and then, with my mum saying it is and my dad (from the Finn Valley)saying no it's not;)

stephendevlin · 04-07-2011 3:54pm

everything is NAAW SO BUAD

deman · 04-07-2011 9:02pm

Madam wrote: »

*Ahem* Is L'Kenny not in the laggan? - My parents used to have this row now and then, with my mum saying it is and my dad (from the Finn Valley)saying no it's not;)

Absolutely not. The Laggan accent ends around Manor and then continues up around Ramelton a bit.

Best Donegal Slang

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