Galway sayings

scholar007 · 23-09-2011 12:26AM #1

Howya Luveens - Whos next?

GalwayGaillimh · 23-09-2011 12:38AM

Like you know Like!

Wompa1 · 23-09-2011 01:27AM

Argh ah Jaysus like

"I do be" in stitches laughing at him

ronnie3585 · 23-09-2011 01:39AM

Ya mong.

Ya gomey.

Some feen.

Subla.

You're sh*tehawkin' now!

ben.schlomo · 23-09-2011 07:47AM

You're PURE wrong, hes a PURE mong etc etc.

LadyMayBelle · 23-09-2011 08:12AM

Dya know now who she is...

Ah sure..

I do be..

Placebo Effect · 23-09-2011 08:55AM

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Ya mong.

Ya gomey.

Some feen.

Subla .

You're sh*tehawkin' now!

Born & reared in Galway City & never heard any of them??

siltirocker · 23-09-2011 09:06AM

You serious??? :eek:

From the hills of Glenina to the valley of Shantalla that stuff is used.

Placebo Effect · 23-09-2011 09:07AM

siltirocker wrote: »

You serious??? :eek:

From the hills of Glenina to the valley of Shantalla that stuff is used.

YEP..

ronnie3585 · 23-09-2011 09:43AM

Placebo Effect wrote: »

Born & reared in Galway City & never heard any of them??

Go way from around meeeeeee, ya handicaped! You're some gomey never havin' heard of those words.

Are you one of those soft feens from Taylors Hill or whaaa?

Subla!

beardybrewer · 23-09-2011 09:45AM

fo shizzle my nizzle, bitches!

a galway classic

barone · 23-09-2011 09:47AM

look at the cut of yer wan..

suss lads!!!

sham, its cowld

ronnie3585 · 23-09-2011 09:51AM

Oh, God blessus and saveus!

Would ya go away outta that.

LadyMayBelle · 23-09-2011 10:17AM

Never heard of 'subla'!

Feens and bures...

Will ya shift yer man?

ronnie3585 · 23-09-2011 10:18AM

Will you shift my friend?

beeintheknow · 23-09-2011 10:35AM

subla sounds to me like a corruption/derivation of soubelline.

There was a thread like this on here a while back and that was utter rubbish too.

LadyMayBelle · 23-09-2011 11:04AM

"The head on yooo" beeintheknow..

Here's the old thread from last year, FYI.

Placebo Effect · 23-09-2011 11:07AM

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Go way from around meeeeeee, ya handicaped! You're some gomey never havin' heard of those words.

Are you one of those soft feens from Taylors Hill or whaaa?

Subla!

I think it may be an age thing...I'm late 30's and 'gomey' or 'subla' or 'feens' I've never heard..in the last few years I've heard 'feeks' , is that the same as 'feens'?

Seems to be younger generation slang...not old Galway,

LadyMayBelle · 23-09-2011 11:13AM

Placebo Effect wrote: »

I think it may be an age thing...I'm late 30's and 'gomey' or 'subla' or 'feens' I've never heard..in the last few years I've heard 'feeks' , is that the same as 'feens'?

Seems to be younger generation slang...not old Galway,

Feek!! Forgot that one!
Gomey head on ya was pretty common when I was a kid..
Ya haaaandicap (terrible) reminds me of Lurgan Park ... that's where I first heard kids using it! Also 'mowldy'.. (as in mouldy)

barone · 23-09-2011 11:14AM

feen and bure is traveller 'caint' or 'cant' talk, feen is man, beaur is woman

23-09-2011 11:27AM

Jaysis yer wan is some feek!

Ah that's just cat-malodean, you're talking packets!

barone · 23-09-2011 12:09PM

Placebo Effect wrote: »

I think it may be an age thing...I'm late 30's and 'gomey' or 'subla' or 'feens' I've never heard..in the last few years I've heard 'feeks' , is that the same as 'feens'?

Seems to be younger generation slang...not old Galway,

im 37, heard all these growing up in galway,very common, guess its where u went to school / lived etc

barone · 23-09-2011 12:14PM

beag , thats another one.. to rob something

lorc.. a car..

ronnie3585 · 23-09-2011 12:16PM

Ha ha, forgot about feek and mouldy.

If you were beaging someting you would also be macin' it. You could also be macin' a feen;

Come'ere youngflaa...do I owe you a batin'? What size runners are ya? Gis a go of your mobile?

hiscan · 23-09-2011 12:18PM

"Are ya wide Sham?"

Diabhal Beag · 23-09-2011 12:40PM

He's a good ladeen

JohnCleary · 23-09-2011 02:34PM

Would ya go way from round me ya gowl bag

TheCosmicFrog · 23-09-2011 04:34PM

"Somebody maced my drink"

Some good ones on:
http://slang.ie/

ronnie3585 · 23-09-2011 04:36PM

Here...are ya goin lushin?

BESman · 23-09-2011 05:20PM

These seem more like general slang you'd hear in most parts of the country, or at least the west, amongst younger folk. Surprised scan hasn't been mentioned. Or shape.

As in "Howya scan, you pullin a lushin shape tonight?"

I've also been told in other parts of the country that they don't understand "anymore". Other counties say "from now on" instead of "anymore". Weird...

Anyway, I think Galway is a bit unique in that the accent is kind of flat and not very distinctive and there isn't a huge amount of indigenous phrases or words. Try living in Dublin, Limerick or Cork. Extremely thick accents and a language of their own to go with it. Galway doesn't really have that.

whineflu · 23-09-2011 05:27PM

barone wrote: »

im 37, heard all these growing up in galway,very common, guess its where u went to school / lived etc

Yeah I went to Marys in the late 80s. Only the boarders from Tuam used to say sham, feen and feek but they gradually spread to everyone over the years. Possibly Travellers who got housed spread that too.
Also words like "gomey" and "crush" are all new slang. The nacks came up with them and the Jez boys start using them to sound "street". My ould lad never even heard of a lot of them and he is old school.

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