Irishisms

Boom_Bap · 29-03-2015 01:09PM

yiz/yous

hairyprincess · 29-03-2015 01:20PM

Just on the giving out thing. Scottish people say "I'll give you a row". Oddist thing ever.
Saying to someone who had just come back from holidays "are you back?" .
"Is it yourself that's in it"
In reply to being asked how you are, "Pulling the divil by the tail"

LordSutch · 29-03-2015 04:39PM

I slept it out . . .

Being late for work on day when working in England in the late 80s and I said the above^ which was greeted by quizzical faces, "So what did you sleep out" to which I explained that it was an Irishism meaning that I had overslept.

Haven't said 'slept it out' since.

Ted_YNWA · 29-03-2015 04:40PM

Listening to the deaths on the (local) radio.

PLL · 29-03-2015 04:51PM

He's the head off ya!

Shtate of ur wan!

Fecking gobshíte!

Would ya ever go féck off for yourself.

Story horse?

Scéal?

Well?

Even my 3 yr old has picked up 'Good woman' we've said it so much to her.

PLL · 29-03-2015 04:59PM

LDN_Irish wrote: »

...., do you know that kind of a way?

My granny says this at the end of every second sentence.

Would be interesting to know what part of Ireland these Irishisms are from.

New Home · 29-03-2015 05:05PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Man 1: Howiya? (How are ya?)

Man 2: Howiya.

How can it be the question and the answer?!

Leogirl wrote: »

I had a foreign student staying & this totally confused her. She asked me why so many total strangers kept asking her how she was & how to reply - should she say shes tired/happy/sad etc. I was tempted to tell her to just answer honestly - Irish people wouldnt know what to do with it!! I was nice though & told her to just say howrya/hi back.

I suppose it can be considered like the informal, Irish version of 'How do you do', the answer to which should also be 'How do you do'.

And if you don't believe me, watch 'My Fair Lady' again. :pac:

New Home · 29-03-2015 05:07PM

emersyn wrote: »

I learned recently that Irish people are the only ones who use the phrase 'giving out'? Like when you're angry at someone and you complain at them, you're giving out to them.
How do British/American etc people say that? The only proper substitute I can think of is to tell someone off, but I have a feeling that's only in England.

Scolding/Reprimanding someone?

csallmighty · 29-03-2015 05:36PM

"Wild" has a few different uses

"You're a wild man"
"Wild amount of people"
"That's wild"

Beffs · 29-03-2015 11:56PM

Jiggerypokery.

Frito · 30-03-2015 01:48AM

New Home wrote: »

Scolding/Reprimanding someone?

We'd also say tore strips off him/laid into him in UK.

When I had my Uk friends come to visit me in Dublin, they were surprised at my OH's term 'lie-on'. It really puzzled them. Divs, it's self-explanatory.

Mint Aero · 30-03-2015 02:02AM

My interpretation of Howr'ya

Man#1: Howr'ya (I'm acknowledging your presence/existence, don't you dare bore me with your life story)

Man#2: Howr'ya (as if i'm going to tell you how I are and therefore what i'm thinking ya c*ntbag. I'll ask you the same question back and see how you like it)

Mountainsandh · 30-03-2015 02:11AM

emersyn wrote: »

I learned recently that Irish people are the only ones who use the phrase 'giving out'? Like when you're angry at someone and you complain at them, you're giving out to them.
How do British/American etc people say that? The only proper substitute I can think of is to tell someone off, but I have a feeling that's only in England.

Only reading the thread now, but that reminds me of a lecturer back in France (French here, studied English back there) who simply couldn't accept that "cross" could mean upset or angry. After au pairing repeatedly in Ireland I hadn't realized it was an Irishism, or is it ? I'm not sure. We were pretty mad at each other since I wouldn't row back on a word I knew to be valid, while she couldn't admit she might be wrong.

I know a woman whose conversation is 50% "to be sure, to be sure", 50% content

I like a big, explosive : "Bollox !" Response in an Irish conversation.

I like "scallywag" too. One that annoys me is when people say to kids : "look at you, you're gorgeous wha' are you ?"

Corvo · 30-03-2015 02:45AM

That money was only resting in my account

BOHtox · 30-03-2015 02:56AM

Saaaaaaaaaaaaay naaaaaaaaaaaaaatin

THall04 · 30-03-2015 03:21AM

Bold....as in a bold or naughty /misbehaving child...a little tipper/scrote etc..
most definitions don't really match how we use this in Ireland

Bold
adjective, bolder, boldest.
1.
not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring:
a bold hero.
2.
not hesitating to break the rules of propriety; forward; impudent:
He apologized for being so bold as to speak to the emperor.
3.
necessitating courage and daring; challenging:
a bold adventure.
4.
beyond the usual limits of conventional thought or action; imaginative:
Einstein was a bold mathematician. a difficult problem needing a bold answer.
5.
striking or conspicuous to the eye; flashy; showy:
a bold pattern.
6.
steep; abrupt:
a bold promontory.
7.
Nautical. deep enough to be navigable close to the shore:
bold waters.

Irish Guitarist · 30-03-2015 06:02AM

Saying something horrible about someone followed by 'God forgive me'. "He's some bastard, God forgive me".

Stinjy · 30-03-2015 06:24AM

On the "Press" talk .. I said to a friend of mine here 'I'll just get the glasses out of the press" I was then asked what a press was and anyone here I've asked since have all had similar responses thinking it must be a form of dishwasher...

Anyways

do ya know who's dead?

Craic

Story (story boss)

Boot (of a car)

Novella · 30-03-2015 06:28AM

I will yeah.

Ghost Buster · 30-03-2015 08:45AM

Our dexterity with swearing is fantastic. I once followed a friend into a dark room. When he flipped the switch the bulb blew. He informed me -
"Ah fcuk it!. The fcuking fcuker is fcuking fcuked!.
I knew exactly what he meant,

Gyalist · 30-03-2015 09:13AM

Garda: "Do you have any drink taken?"

Me: "No, I'm a teetotaller."

Garda: "Wha?"

Me: "No Guard, I'm a Pioneer."

JCX BXC · 31-03-2015 12:13PM

One I hear around my parts is "mental"

"Jaysus that's mental"
"God Its mental windy out" (it bloody is)
"That's a mental hard question to answer"

And one I remember using all the time in school,

Me: "Aw Mrs/Sir that homework was mental hard!

Teacher: "Do you have It done???"

Me: "No"

Badly Drunk Boy · 31-03-2015 12:21PM

LordSutch wrote: »

I slept it out . . .

Being late for work on day when working in England in the late 80s and I said the above^ which was greeted by quizzical faces, "So what did you sleep out" to which I explained that it was an Irishism meaning that I had overslept.

Haven't said 'slept it out' since.

Good!! Tardiness should not be acceptable in this day and age.

Dyr · 31-03-2015 12:36PM

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Well, horse?

Only correct answer: Well?

Dyr · 31-03-2015 12:38PM

Referring to an annoying female as "woman"

"Jaysus christ woman, would ye SHTOP?"

ratmouse · 31-03-2015 12:56PM

bless you (in response to a sneeze).

bodhrandude · 31-03-2015 12:59PM

We should create a thread called Trishisms for people called Patricia. :pac:

Alun · 31-03-2015 05:21PM

ratmouse wrote: »

bless you (in response to a sneeze).

That's not uniquely Irish.

diomed · 31-03-2015 05:52PM

Are you alright, or what?

Mountainsandh · 01-04-2015 11:37PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Saying something horrible about someone followed by 'God forgive me'. "He's some bastard, God forgive me".

This has to be the best Irishism ! It's not even the phrase, it's the whole context that's so completely and utterly Irish Mammyesque, or middle-aged-farmer-outside-the-church-esque. I even know a young farmer I could completely see saying something like that. (only reason for farming reference is I'm in a mostly farming community).
God I love it.

How about "flippin' " and "bloody" ?

My MIL is always using them so as not to swear, you know yourself.

"the flippin' kettle broke on me".

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