Irishisms

podgemonster · 13-03-2013 10:13am

Have a habit of saying "Stop" when some one says something I absolutely agree with it. But if the speak is foreign then they think i telling them to shutup.

American: Ugh if this queue last any longer I'm going to wet myself
Me: Stop! I know!
American: Oh i'm sorry

ziggy23 · 13-03-2013 11:07am

He doesn't know if he wants a sh1te or a haircut (He doesn't know what he wants)

Naid23 · 13-03-2013 12:02pm

my mates in England think its real funny when I say 'Gas'.. as in thats Gas =funny!... For ages one of the girls didnt have a clue what I was talking bout!
Brilliant

TheLastMohican · 13-03-2013 12:15pm

podgemonster wrote: »

Have a habit of saying "Stop" when some one says something I absolutely agree with it. But if the speak is foreign then they think i telling them to shutup.

American: Ugh if this queue last any longer I'm going to wet myself
Me: Stop! I know!
American: Oh i'm sorry

I think an American dealt with someone that did this (wet themselves and him) at a bus stop outside Trinity last year. But I thought the pi$$ artist was really pi$$ed. Anyway, the whole tawdry scenario finished up in front of the beak.

Mr. Nice · 13-03-2013 12:19pm

Scruffles wrote: »

-danus [dangerous],he makes the word sound less serious than it shoud be.

Mr. Nice · 13-03-2013 12:21pm

trashcan wrote: »

Absolutely. It's always been a jumper to me. I've never heard any Irish person refer to it as a Sweater, never.

Geansai

El Inho · 13-03-2013 12:47pm

Don't understand how people when they pass each other on the street etc, and this is the conversation.

"Well howiya doing"
Ah well how are you"

and they keep walking with noone knowing an answer.

ShadowHearth · 13-03-2013 12:58pm

You heard about " your man " doing x and y.

It got very popular to say at work at one stage and it was very confusing to me. I don't even know that person!!!

Quid = money. Took me a while to get around that one. Now I am using it myself. When I say it to my friends from UK, they always go "wtf" on me.

cyril peter · 13-03-2013 1:21pm

who's the hoorsmelt that broke my window.

she has a face on her, like she got struck with a bag of chisels.

irish bride on honeymoon, says to well endowed husband "dont mind me crying make me take it".

Eurovisionmad · 13-03-2013 2:01pm

"They'd steal the ****e out of your arse so they would! The dirty Sasanaigh bastards!" = anyone giving out about any group of people in particular

"The shower up in ____!"

"Did ya hear about what's her face?"

"She's as mad as a bag of spiders!"

"Ah shure **** it anyway!"

Sensual Cucumber · 13-03-2013 2:06pm

That fella, hes as useless as a bull with tits!

LordSutch · 13-03-2013 2:08pm

I slept it out . . . . .

Said that in London once, and got a quizzical look, "what did you sleep out" mate?

Since then I would say "I overslept", which seems to be the more logical version.

kylith · 13-03-2013 2:19pm

El Spearo wrote: »

Don't understand how people when they pass each other on the street etc, and this is the conversation.

"Well howiya doing"
Ah well how are you"

and they keep walking with noone knowing an answer.

Ever been to Waterford? The usual greeting is "Well", to which the reply is "Well". So you have two people passing each other and all they say is "Well", "Well", and both keep walking.

P.Walnuts · 13-03-2013 2:34pm

He'd steal your stove and come back for the smoke.

frank reynolds · 13-03-2013 3:05pm

Ask me arse
...

go and sh!te

Eeeyore · 13-03-2013 3:10pm

He wouldn't give you the Steam off his Piss.

ziggy23 · 13-03-2013 7:14pm

He's a big long streak of piss/misery
Sh1t or get off the pot (make up your mind)
You're some can of piss
Sorry all piss/sh1t related:pac:

He doesn't know his arse from his elbow!

bnt · 13-03-2013 8:06pm

Just "yer man" - that's sufficiently confusing. I'm still amazed that any thinking human being can use that in a conversation, since you know it will be followed, immediately, by "who?"

IM0 · 13-03-2013 8:11pm

I wouldnt ride her into battle

seven_eleven · 13-03-2013 8:16pm

kylith wrote: »

Ever been to Waterford? The usual greeting is "Well", to which the reply is "Well". So you have two people passing each other and all they say is "Well", "Well", and both keep walking.

well boy!

Wibbs · 13-03-2013 9:53pm

The shore's blocked. Shore meaning drains. More a Dublin one I think and comes from around the Tudor era apparently, so Shakespeare would understand it, but his descendants are "WTF". Clearly his descendants are less erudite.

I seem to recall Press for cupboard is also from that time as is "mitch(from school)". Though cupboard is an odd name given it's originally a table set aside for well cups and plates and the like. "Press" is actually more in keeping with the original purpose. We tend to say gotten more than got too. Though the British and us will say China for plates and such, we say Delph more(both from the origins of ceramics, China from well... and Delph from Delft in Holland). We use bring instead of take. From the Irish IIRC EG "make sure you bring your keys with you". Take is the more usual one for other english speakers. One that really gets head scratching is if you say someone is being "bold". Makes no sense to non hiberno english speakers.

johnolocher · 13-03-2013 9:57pm

Yeah 'bold' is a strange one, it means Brave in the UK an America I.e. that's a bold move

fehenry · 13-03-2013 11:17pm

brandon_flowers wrote: »

However the French say "en forme?" all the time so it's not the worst one.

Northern people saying "I'll lift ya at your house".

Kerry people saying "yerra ya" meaning no.

Cork people saying "I will, boyyy" meaning no.

Ludramán would be a common replacement for amadán in Gaeltacht areas.

AKA Laitcheko in some areas of the country.

Mr. Nice · 13-03-2013 11:47pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Quid = money. Took me a while to get around that one. Now I am using it myself. When I say it to my friends from UK, they always go "wtf" on me.

Quid is widely used in Britain, maybe your UK friends are just a bit slow.

Dewey collins · 13-03-2013 11:50pm

answering "I will ya" if u asked to do something u don't like and answering "how bad" when u are asked to do something u like to foreigner this will make no since whats so ever

SEANoftheDEAD · 14-03-2013 12:56am

Stall it down to me gaff man... bring a few skins... ja know what I mean

Mr_Spaceman · 15-03-2013 10:22pm

"Giving out" used to confuse me as people in Norn Iron tend to say "giving off" instead.

Dwork · 15-03-2013 10:35pm

It's the Leprechaun thread. I feel like an extra in "The Quiet Man", begorrah, so I do, good man. dediddleyayedadiddlyayeayediddly. Fcuk off. The only place I hear most of these is on re-runs of Glenroe.

Need A User Name · 15-03-2013 10:37pm

You know yourself I wouldn't give her one with yours!

Sensual Cucumber · 16-03-2013 6:08pm

Banjaxed...you get right funny looks from non Irish people when you say that;)

summerskin · 19-03-2013 11:44am

ShadowHearth wrote: »

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Quid = money. Took me a while to get around that one. Now I am using it myself. When I say it to my friends from UK, they always go "wtf" on me.

utter rubbish. Almost everyone in the UK uses "quid" to refer to Sterling. I've never heard anyone say "That costs 20 pounds" always "twenty quid".

Ruu · 19-03-2013 11:49am

blinding wrote: »

or a rake of this

Does anyone know how muck a rake of is

A bit more than a 'lock'. I bought a lock of dem sweets the other day!

fishy fishy · 19-03-2013 1:01pm

P.Walnuts wrote: »

I was often called a "Ludramon" in my youth, not sure how common that one is.

ludramon was a common word for where we lived, also, Sleemadoir, silemolly, amadan.

kylith · 19-03-2013 1:42pm

seven_eleven wrote: »

well boy!

Well, boy! I tell ya, I've a hankering for some red lead blaas!

Wibbs wrote: »

The shore's blocked. Shore meaning drains. More a Dublin one

Definitely in use in Waterford too.

Wibbs wrote:

One that really gets head scratching is if you say someone is being "bold". Makes no sense to non hiberno english speakers.

IIRC 'dána' means both 'brave' and 'naughty', so it's another example of a direct translation from Irish which doesn't quite make sense in English

COYVB · 19-03-2013 1:56pm

fcuk it it'll do

kingtiger · 19-03-2013 1:57pm

MCMLXXV wrote: »

People were saying jumper loooooong before that song came out.

aye, Jumpers for goal posts anyone?

hers a few I remember from years ago

That's cat (catmalogen) \ really bad

Shes hot in her leather \ Woman scantily clad

Merciful hour look at the state of him \ hes in bad shape

Look at Lady muck \ Stuck up woman

The lad has a gammy leg \ his leg is injured

M5 · 19-03-2013 2:12pm

A friend got a few strange looks when in a dive bar in Phoenix. He stood up and proclaimed he was going outside to "smoke a fag"

COYVB · 19-03-2013 2:14pm

M5 wrote: »

A friend got a few strange looks when in a dive bar in Phoenix. He stood up and proclaimed he was going outside to "smoke a fag"

My boss has been over in Canada a few times and asked to bum a fag. That's always amusing

Shenshen · 19-03-2013 2:20pm

M5 wrote: »

A friend got a few strange looks when in a dive bar in Phoenix. He stood up and proclaimed he was going outside to "smoke a fag"

I was once told by an English teacher about the time during an internship she did in New York where she walked into the teacher's lounge and asked if anyone had a rubber she could borrow.

She said she never understood the looks of utter confusion and embarrassment until a colleague later told her that they call them "erasers". Rubbers would be rubber johnies...

fishy fishy · 19-03-2013 2:22pm

the 'fags" and the 'rubbers" stories are so out-dated they are boring. I think everyone that has left Ireland has had this experience. Just ain't funny any more.

just saying.....:P

Lawrence1895 · 19-03-2013 2:52pm

Larianne wrote: »

The Australians always got confused when I said "yer man".
"which man? Who? Huh?"

And one poor German lad never understood when someone was talking about a 'fillim'. When I explained, it solved the mystery of quite a few conversations where he got lost.

I find 'going to the pictures' much more confusing

civis_liberalis · 19-03-2013 7:09pm

fishy fishy wrote: »

ludramon was a common word for where we lived, also, Sleemadoir, silemolly, amadan.

All Irish words except silemolly possibly.

They can have different meanings in different parts of the country but...

Liúdramán = Lazy fool.

Sliamadór (sp) = Dishonest, untrustworthy person.

silmolly... no idea

Amadán = eejit. (not that I needed to explain that one)

ruaille buaille · 19-03-2013 7:25pm

Sconce. As in to have a look at something
"Ah sure I'll go in and have a sconce around."

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