Cork words you just don't hear anymore

D-Generate · 31-10-2011 04:18PM

Great thread.

I have moved to Dublin recently and can't get over the blank looks i get when I use some words that I assumed were common place. Main ones that get blank stares are;

Jointed
Bazzer
Gat/Gatting

I wouldn't expect them to know jagging and more cork specific ones but thought the above were universal Irish.

Do kids these days still shout "Up for the baa" when they throw their Premier League stickers in to the air? Thems were some great times!

Also, does anyone know the origins for how being stood up is a 50?

cjmcork · 31-10-2011 10:12PM

D-Generate wrote: »

Great thread.

Also, does anyone know the origins for how being stood up is a 50?

great question - I'd like to know that too..........the dubs just don't get it like - try to crow-bar 'haunted' into a sentence and watch the blank look on their faces, it's gas!

leahyl · 01-11-2011 09:59AM

cjmcork wrote: »

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

Montenotte isn't the only place on the Northside!;)

leahyl · 01-11-2011 10:01AM

D-Generate wrote: »

Great thread.

I have moved to Dublin recently and can't get over the blank looks i get when I use some words that I assumed were common place. Main ones that get blank stares are;

Jointed
Bazzer
Gat/Gatting

I wouldn't expect them to know jagging and more cork specific ones but thought the above were universal Irish.

Do kids these days still shout "Up for the baa" when they throw their Premier League stickers in to the air? Thems were some great times!

Also, does anyone know the origins for how being stood up is a 50?

I use jointed all the time! I wouldn't think it's a Cork phrase so I'm suprised they didn't know it in Dublin

dhoun · 01-11-2011 09:10PM

Keep it going lads. By the way, what would ye think is the most well known (most regularly used) Cork phrase?

dhoun · 01-11-2011 09:10PM

Keep it going lads. By the way, what would ye think is the most well known (most regularly used) Cork phrase?

seamusmcspud · 01-11-2011 09:21PM

another one from the scout days is ......

a dose of the 'scutters'! - diarrhoea

evilivor · 01-11-2011 10:03PM

D-Generate wrote: »

Also, does anyone know the origins for how being stood up is a 50?

50% of the people involved in the date didn't show up.

cjmcork · 01-11-2011 10:37PM

dhoun wrote: »

Keep it going lads. By the way, what would ye think is the most well known (most regularly used) Cork phrase?

stall the ball there feen! I reckon it's probably 'langer' since Radio Jay and Radio Roy unleashed it on the rest of the country

aujopimur · 01-11-2011 10:56PM

Steamer = queer, before they were called gay.
Ould doll = wife/girlfriend.
On the lang = mitching from school.
A drag of a fag = a puff on a ciggy.
Drop the hand = to get your hand between a girls legs.
To go all the way = to have a ride.
Washers = money.

cjmcork · 01-11-2011 11:04PM

I claim ya - I'll fight you!

Can I have the uks of that - can I have the last bit of your chocolate bar, etc....

I won't even start on 'flah' - which is a noun, verb and adjective (I think)!

seamusmcspud · 03-11-2011 06:06PM

we used to call it the 'undie grundie' now commonly know as the wedgie

johnayo · 03-11-2011 07:06PM

Before you leave the pub..................Hang on dere a minute boy, I must have a damper.:)

Namlub · 04-11-2011 02:56AM

johnayo wrote: »

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

That's not a Cork thing

PeefsPixie · 04-11-2011 10:23PM

Im not far off 21 and cork slang is definitely going strong!! Half the time Id say its used seriously and the other half its used mockingly to mock the people who use it seriously... LOL. Beoir, baii, like, feen, fla, gowl... Hear them everyday!

booboo88 · 06-11-2011 12:53PM

dhoun wrote: »

'whatchamacallit'

oh god thats my fav

mik_da_man wrote: »

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?

this thread is brilliant

trynabe · 06-11-2011 01:11PM

go way ya mog ,,,,,go away

the other fella ,,,,, anyone

the other place ,,,,,any place

get a bazzar ,,,,,haircut

ya plank ,,,who knows

me conjon box.... money box

done a legger ,,,ran away

ive yer one up the pole ,,,,ive someone pregnant

shes a fine half ,,,,shes good looking

thats dacent ,,thats good

id a jag last nite but yer 1 was a nawful yoke
hahaha i could do this all day ,,,me n my friends use all theese words ,,sometimes just for a laugh ,,the older 1s are class ,,,
ya spadgy

trynabe · 06-11-2011 04:24PM

just heard someone callin another a goul ,,or gowel ,,great cork word ,,,like gom ,,hes a gom ,,love em

aujopimur · 06-11-2011 04:32PM

Bazz = Pubic hair.

Mr Bloat · 08-11-2011 03:00PM

Gom or Gombeen isn't a Cork word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombeen_man

My Grandma used to call a snail a shelltihorn, I still use that today.
Some other words that I still use are:

Septic, meaning loving yourself. "Your man is septic"

Rake, meaning a lot of. "I have a rake a work to do"

Bulb off, meaning looking like someone else. "Yer wan is the bulb off her mam"

There's probably loads of other words that I use in general conversation that are Cork slang words that I don't know of, I just assume they are universal. As others have said, it's only when you go outside Cork and use them that it become apparent that nobody knows what you're on about!

trynabe · 08-11-2011 10:32PM

Mr Bloat wrote: »

Gom or Gombeen isn't a Cork word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombeen_man

in true cork slang

what are you " a know all "

now lamp this ya gimp :D:D

http://www.corkslang.com/gom.htm

MyStubbleItches · 08-11-2011 10:33PM

Gatch - gis a gatch of that = show that to me

ponny, its a word we use (macroom area) to describe a container that doesn't have a name of its own. I have a ponny for nails, a timber box I made out of scrap timber. Farming neighbour gives a ponny of milk to new calves. Kind of a generic name.

murphym7 · 09-11-2011 09:27AM

Anyone remember the word "FEEK" - used to describe a savage old doll?

Maybe its a Northside thing - I remember it well from younger years.

"See your Wan over there - what a Feek!"

number10a · 09-11-2011 02:14PM

Snedger - a pervert who gets his kicks from sniffing women's bicycle seats. :pac::pac:

Was it actually such a big problem one time that a word had to be coined for it?

ofcork · 09-11-2011 07:40PM

murphym7 wrote: »

Anyone remember the word "FEEK" - used to describe a savage old doll?

Maybe its a Northside thing - I remember it well from younger years.

"See your Wan over there - what a Feek!"

I remember that well it was like the other f word,could be used in different ways eg i feeked her,what a feek etc.

Gamb!t · 09-11-2011 08:12PM

Dunna's - Dunnes Stores

dhoun · 09-11-2011 08:44PM

Feek's a new one on me! Our one was 'lasher' (As in 'What a lasher!)

discostu1 · 10-11-2011 07:57PM

When your hungry but dont know what you want to eat

!I' craw sick today"

The_Banker · 11-11-2011 11:23PM

My mother had loads of um...

Yer wan there is a fierce "conny shurrer" = That woman is a terrible gossip
She's a doll in Cashs window = That child is very good looking
He's very cute = He is very intelligent
Yer wan there is a fierce "craw thumper" = That woman is always in the church

If a teenager was saucy he was called a caffler.
If someone burped or was rude he was called a "ca boge" (not sure of the spelling)
She called Danish pasties "snickles"

dhoun · 12-11-2011 12:44AM

Cabog (with a fada over the o)

Cork words you just don't hear anymore

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