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Irishisms

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  • #32
    Paramite Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Guess what the translation of bread is in Spanish? Pan! Is there some sort of relationship here or it a terrible coincidence

    We got it from the Normans, who as you might have guessed spoke French. Wheat wasn't a common crop in Ireland until the Normans arrived, so it's not unsurprising that we borrowed their word for a loaf of bread.


  • #33
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    ratmouse wrote: »
    Are ya coddin me or what?

    That one is particularly dodgy!

    Comes from 'codpiece' which was the male of the wonder bra. It accentuated things shall we say.

    So, to 'cod' someone = to make out that something's more impressive than it is.


  • #34
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Lookit!


  • #35
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Thunderin' Jaysus and Splutterin' Gobsh1te

    We do the very best insults :D


  • #36
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Well holy god.


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  • #37
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Be the hokey.....


  • #38
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    "Will you do that for me?"

    "I will, yeaaaaaah..."

    Everyone else in the world would take that as acceptance, but we know they're just being sarcastic little shits.


  • #39
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Yerra/erra.


  • #40
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Another one of these, great.

    Another person who goes out of there way to go into a post they dont like just to complain,

    Dont go into posts you dont like!


  • #41
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Well holy god.

    .... Fidelma, is that yerself with the knickers down and the bold look in yer eye?


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  • #42
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    "ara go way out of it your only coddin me"

    "what sort of a feckin ejit"

    "Well the lawwrd jaysus!"


  • #43
    GottaGetGatt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭GottaGetGatt


    Oh suffering Calcutta!!


  • #44
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Please god.
    With the help of god.
    God forgive me.
    God rest him.

    Each one about ten times every time the in laws come to visit


  • #45
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    "This room looks like a bomb hit it".


  • #46
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Guess what the translation of bread is in Spanish? Pan! Is there some sort of relationship here or it a terrible coincidence

    Ultimately from Latin panis. A similar word for bread exists in just about every Romance language. I would suspect that the word entered English with the Normans ( French pain. )


  • #47
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    "Do that again and there'll be wigs on the green!!"


  • #48
    SeantheMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,912 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    It's completely banjaxed


  • #49
    CaliforniaDream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭CaliforniaDream


    S/he's dead now.


  • #50
    ratmouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    God bless the mark.


  • #51
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,504 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Come here and I'll hit ya!

    I do be saying..... they do be doing,,,,etc

    The cut of ya,

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • #52
    ratmouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    For the love a lamb a jaysus!


  • #53
    FueledbyCoffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭FueledbyCoffee


    gick-nah


  • #54
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Lifted from Facebook regarding 50 Shades
    CRITIC_1: wat on in the Omniplx


    CRITIC_2: Byore **** flick. Fifty shades

    Would have saved so much time to just put that on the posters.


  • #55
    starry_eyed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭starry_eyed


    Wait till your father gets home.


  • #56
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,933 ✭✭✭Rawr


    "Are ya lookin' at me, or are ya chewin' a brick?!"


  • #57
    riaganach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭riaganach


    He's gone over the road.


  • #58
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭degsie


    Arahkissdebackomebollyx


  • #59
    ratmouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    He/she is the spit of (insert name)


  • #60
    DublinCJM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭DublinCJM


    He's above in the town

    or maybe

    She's below in the field

    Irrespective of the elevation of either relative to the person speaking


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  • #61
    libelula
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    DublinCJM wrote: »
    He's above in the town

    or maybe

    She's below in the field

    Irrespective of the elevation of either relative to the person speaking

    He's abroad in the yard. :)


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