Cork words you just don't hear anymore

JaneHudson · 27-10-2011 10:54AM

Today FM has since ruined 'Gawk' for me. I can't hear it without thinking "...all over me walnut dash."

newbee22 · 27-10-2011 02:37PM

The one thing I miss about working in the northside is that us southsiders don't speak Corkonain the way they do! I do notice my teenage sister and her friends using daycent a lot but that is just about what I hear now!

gimmick · 27-10-2011 02:48PM

kub wrote: »

Cemer feen did ya ever have a gawk at d PROC boy?

Careful now.....

cornbb · 27-10-2011 03:03PM

Wah, beour, gowl and skobe were all used in Limerick too when I lived there. Not some of the other ones mentioned here though. Keep it up

trynabe · 27-10-2011 09:48PM

anyone remeber l.o.b ,,youd say it when the law was spotted if you were up to no good L,O,B L,O,B
or mebbs was a word to describe ur balls as in <<< i will in me mebbs //
sham alive was another
ive millions bein northside meself and me n me friends use em now 4 a laugh
gettin a 50 from an ol doll was getting stood up by her
mouldy drunk
kicked to death was another favourite

johnayo · 27-10-2011 09:57PM

My wan is gone shoppin. My wife is shopping.

He is a right Spadgie.

ShamFeen · 27-10-2011 10:07PM

I remember a chat on 96fm before about it, think it was Prendo or Mick Mul. Someone rang in, presenter: "What's your word caller?", Caller "Gowan". "Can you put that in a sentence?", "Gowan outta that ya gowl!" A little while later same caller unnoticed by presenter "Word is smee" Same question, "Smee again ya langer!" Cork humour, can't bate it!!!!

Dixie Chick · 27-10-2011 10:13PM

This thread is so funny, I use all those words all the time cos I just love Cork slang!!

So did ya meet your manno last night for your jag?
Nah girl he gave me a 50!

Scabby- mean
Langy- hang off the back of the bus or hop into a taxi and not pay
Mockeeah- fake
My cot- my bed
Tommy bolla- load of crap
A monkey- 500 euros

Then my dad has this whole phrase he usees and finishes himself..like if he got a bargain somewhere he would say "bate it?, you couldnt!"

Poppies- potatoes, it always surprises me no on knows this outside cork!

Gowl/mog/spa/mongo

Bogwash- wetting teh tip of a shared fag!

Gat- are you going gatting tonoght? Dont mind him he is full of gat!

cjmcork · 27-10-2011 10:28PM

Ludo wrote: »

I actually heard someone refer to a colleague as a gowl in the office yesterday...thought to myself that there's a word I hadn;t heard in a long time.

Jointed is another one I haven;t heard in ages.

there's a sign for the River Gowl just after the Cullahill bypass on the Cork / Dublin road.......some day I'm gonna take a pic of me standing next to it in a PRC t-shirt and post it on my f/b page!:p

discostu1 · 27-10-2011 11:47PM

Bazzer a hair cut

Rubber dollies an early version of sneakers,

dhoun · 28-10-2011 08:11PM

Feen and beoir sound like mockeyah words to me. Never heard them when I was growing up ...

cjmcork · 28-10-2011 08:15PM

feen and biore are as much Cork as the Lee.........I'm scarle' for ya!:D

harry21 · 28-10-2011 10:04PM

I worked with a fella years ago and he used to say 'pass me da fandangle' meaning pass me the 'insert random object'.

Still use it myself. Anyone?

dhoun · 28-10-2011 11:13PM

'That's me daza' (as in that's bril) is a real old one.

dhoun · 28-10-2011 11:14PM

'whatchamacallit'

johnayo · 28-10-2011 11:17PM

where's the fuji-baa

johnayo · 28-10-2011 11:18PM

I'm hitting the sack.(off to bed)

dhoun · 29-10-2011 12:40AM

johnayo wrote: »

where's the fuji-baa

That's a new one on me ....

mik_da_man · 29-10-2011 12:50AM

This may be one that people on here still use but I am totally confused by it...

"Your Haunted" - meaning your very lucky

I have never heard it in any other part of the country but seems to be used by a few people I work with.

Anyone know how that one came about?

29-10-2011 01:18AM

Always reckoned it was coined from having a little bit of good spirits on your side, sort of "someone" looking after you thing.

harry21 · 29-10-2011 11:30AM

dhoun wrote: »

'That's me daza' (as in that's bril) is a real old one.

Ya I use that one quite a bit too. Its a nice one!

ShamFeen · 29-10-2011 11:58AM

That's the/me berries! Meaning brilliant. Also used to work with an older gentleman who used to call everyone, "old stock".

dhoun · 29-10-2011 12:23PM

This is a bit crude I know ...

Nobber (gentleman who 'likes' the ladies)

ryanah · 29-10-2011 03:56PM

Monboy Willa .................... Come on boy

seamusmcspud · 29-10-2011 08:38PM

just a few more....

"your murder" or "tiz murder" - your a rather cheeky chap

"divil a bit" - not doing anything in particular ... (this is flexible too)

"lapsy pa" - smething you'd put on your hands??? ...

"haunted" - a lucky chap

"3 and 6" - not a bob

a 5-8- a poorly qualified tradesman

cjmcork · 29-10-2011 10:28PM

yeah, I still use 'haunted' and 'flahed out' (which I don't think has been mentioned yet!)

Lapsy pa - I use it all the time, but would struggle to define it!!

johnayo · 30-10-2011 12:45AM

Did she have a boy or a child.

Shes up the pole.(she is pregnant).

tenreds · 31-10-2011 01:02AM

love this thread,left cork nearly 20 years ago and I know most of these sayings ( I'm from northside)

cjmcork · 31-10-2011 11:53AM

tenreds wrote: »

love this thread,left cork nearly 20 years ago and I know most of these sayings ( I'm from northside)

I didn't think they used those phrases in Montenotte like!

dhoun · 31-10-2011 01:52PM

cjmcork wrote: »

I didn't think they used those phrases in Montenotte like!

That's what you think. We used them all!

Cork words you just don't hear anymore

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