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Words the older generation use.

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  • #32
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Not off the top of my head, I'm from Waterford.

    Meas is a fairly common word in West Waterford.


  • #33
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Fuist (pron: whisht) Be Quiet!

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  • #34
    muineachan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭muineachan


    Older people in my family say Crater a lot from Creatúr meaning 'poor' like an ill person 'ah the creatúr, hope she gets better'

    I also hear Luder a lot from luderachán (spelling?) meaning idiot much like amadán.

    To be honest with you I would use the above but I never hear them up in Dublin, and they seem to be more common in the older people.


  • #35
    Enkidu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Enkidu


    uch wrote: »
    Fuist (pron: whisht) Be Quiet!
    No way! That's shocking! There really is more Irish in our English than you'd think.


  • #36
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    uch wrote: »
    Fuist (pron: whisht) Be Quiet!

    My grandparents and uncles/aunts always use whisht. Never knew it derived from Irish, but figured it must have!


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  • #37
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Enkidu wrote: »
    ... There really is more Irish in our English than you'd think.

    As I am sure you recognise, the use of Irish syntax in Hiberno-English is more significant.


  • #38
    whatthefeck
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭whatthefeck


    Spailpín = Migrant worker

    When we went to visit our relatives during the summer as a child I can remember my uncle saying, Oh the Spailpíns have landed.


  • #39
    LimeFruitGum
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    Oinseach is a word my father would use for a female eejit, but other than that, he wouldn't know any Irish at all.

    A lot of the words mentioned already like Cratur, cipíns and boreens, were in common use when I was growing up. One example that comes to mind is "bould banbh", which was what my nan would call a cheeky/naughty child (or indeed animal :))
    Anyway, a piglet was always called a banbh and would never be called by its English name.


  • #40
    SisterAnn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭SisterAnn


    I've heard talk among older folks of 'the gatch of him', meaning his carry-on or antics. Derived from 'geaitsí' no?


  • #41
    ardri12345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭ardri12345


    my mother would have used words like saying someone was full of taspie (meaning in high spirits,)when visiting people she would say she was scroitking,if some thing broke it was in pure bruis,she would have no mass (respect) on me if i did not give the cattle a "tisk kaan" of nuts.(ps.i have wrote the words as they sounded to my ear)


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  • #42
    Jelly2
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭Jelly2


    Gaeilge72 wrote: »
    Meas (respect) is another word commonly heard; "I wouldn't have any meas in him". Heard a lot around Cork / Waterford anyway. Anyone else heard this much?

    I'm from Wexford (south-west), and we use this regularly. But we say 'meas on' as in 'She had no meas on it.' Lovely colloquialism I think.


  • #43
    Gaeilge72
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Gaeilge72


    Jelly2 wrote: »
    I'm from Wexford (south-west), and we use this regularly. But we say 'meas on' as in 'She had no meas on it.' Lovely colloquialism I think.

    I agree, it's quite nice.


  • #44
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,811 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    My mother would often say this, as in...'you have no means on anything'. She would also refer to some people (not the nice kind) as a 'bacach'. Bacach means lame so I can only presume that people who were born with a disability were seen as being somehow cursed or bad luck in times long ago. Farmers would often call a calf's hoofs when a cow is calving 'crúbíns'. 'Banbh' would also be used to describe a piglet. I hear many of these. 'Bóithrín' would also be often used. I think you generally find sayings like these in rural Ireland, often amongst people who wouldn't be speaking with many others in their working lives.


  • #45
    Jelly2
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭Jelly2


    Tigerandahalf wrote: »
    My mother would often say this, as in...'you have no means on anything'. She would also refer to some people (not the nice kind) as a 'bacach'. Bacach means lame so I can only presume that people who were born with a disability were seen as being somehow cursed or bad luck in times long ago. Farmers would often call a calf's hoofs when a cow is calving 'crúbíns'. 'Banbh' would also be used to describe a piglet. I hear many of these. 'Bóithrín' would also be often used. I think you generally find sayings like these in rural Ireland, often amongst people who wouldn't be speaking with many others in their working lives.

    Actually, I think that 'bacach' was used to refer to wandering poor, who used to beg at houses mostly, and were not of the nice kind (ie the deserving poor), but were thought to be a bit rogueish because of thievery etc. It was sometimes anglicised as 'bocough'. This would make sense, if your mother was using it pejoratively (no offence!).


  • #46
    An gal gréine
    Registered Users Posts: 941 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    I dont think the lame were regarded unkindly. The Ó Dónaill dictionary has beggar as it's second meaning for bacach and it's third meaning is " mean person, sponger" and finally "dispicable person".


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