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Sligo Slang

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  • 14-12-2007 1:41pm
    #1
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭


    Just so you can get a clear definition of what the average Sligonian is talking about:

    Sligo @ Slang.ie *

    * mature content within


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    red bellied
    Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭red bellied


    Minker must be the most famous Sligo slang word and its not even included. Buffs should be there as well. Steamboats is there that was always a good one. Just seen its under minker drinking, should really be on its own though!


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    brianthebard
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    Shytehawk is the best (non)word ever.


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    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,094 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Puts me in mind of this from Scotland:

    Two Pakistani men immigrate to Scotland, and agree to meet two years later to see who has become the most Scottish. Two years pass. They meet and the first one says "I have a Scotland football jersey, I drink Scotch whisky and eat haggis every week, I've joined a pipe band, I own a Scottie dog, I wear a kilt everywhere, I salmon fish and I play golf ......... That's how Scottish I am. How Scottish have you become?"

    The second one replies, "AWAY TAE FU*K YA PAKI B@STARD!"


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    Gillie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,640 ✭✭✭Gillie


    basquille wrote: »
    Just so you can get a clear definition of what the average Sligonian is talking about:

    Sligo @ Slang.ie *

    * mature content within


    Theres no such thing as an average Sligonian!;)


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    Drag00n79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭Drag00n79


    Ah, there's a fair bit of shyte on that too imo.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    Some of those I've never heard of such as quest.


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    #8
    Gillie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,640 ✭✭✭Gillie


    "Aw lads a bitta munch on a big4 ya"

    WTF?
    Sounds like Patrick Truman from eastenders!


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    fillefatale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    Hmmm, whoever compiled some of them needs to check their spelling first..
    For example:
    Raggin!
    n.

    Feeling annoied

    "Ahh raggin man!"


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    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    Brings back some memories though! My brother spent a good 3 years just going around calling everyone a "gomie", bless him! :D

    Not A Sniff
    exp.

    No chance

    "Will you be wit yer man over there?? Not a sniff!!!"

    I Will In Me Shytee
    n.

    I will not perform that action

    "Will you be going to Envy later?" "I will in me shytee , its a kip"

    Those two just made me laugh!! :D I noticed ghoul is in there though, I've never heard that used up here though. Used all the time down in Limerick but I've never heard it used up here? :confused:


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    SprostonGreen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭SprostonGreen


    Where is Rehab, Rank, Belized, Buff?


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    gustavo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    takola wrote: »
    I Will In Me Shytee
    n.

    I will not perform that action

    "Will you be going to Envy later?" "I will in me shytee , its a kip"

    Those two just made me laugh!! :D

    I submitted that one :D


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    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    red bellied wrote: »
    Buffs should be there as well.
    SprostonGreen wrote: »
    Where is Rehab, Rank, Belized, Buff?
    Don't know how ye missed it... it's under ummmmm.. 'B' funnily enough.

    PS - there's a few in there i'd never heard of but ran it past a few mates younger than me who have heard of it (such as 'Toffin'). Didn't realise i was so out-of-touch with the youth of Sligo..


    .. oh wait, yes I did!


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    AlmightyCushion
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    Toffin? What the fúck is toffin? It sounds like going to toffs. Stupid word all the same.


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    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    What the fúck is toffin? It sounds like going to toffs.
    You get a cookie! ;)


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    AlmightyCushion
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    basquille wrote: »
    You get a cookie! ;)

    Giving sweeties to strangers. I always knew there was something dodgy about you.

    How do we submit slang for this? I think we should make up our own one, for the laugh.


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    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    gustavo wrote: »
    I submitted that one :D

    Fair play! Still makes me laugh!! :D

    In all fairness now I can only imagine the look on any of my friends faces if I said "I'm going toffin tonight" to them!

    They don't actually use that do they? Surely they just made it up so they could laugh at it!! :eek:


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    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    I have heard people say they were going Toffin...


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    takola
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    Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »
    I have heard people say they were going Toffin...

    Course your friends would use it wouldn't they?? :p


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    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    There's very few slang terms exclusive to Sligo. "Minker" would be one. The rest are in common usage elsewhere. Sligo(nian?) is more about the accent than the wording. There's a whole world of youth slang that will never stick, due to it's utter crapness. "Toffin'"? That's muppet speak for "desparate to create new slang terms".:rolleyes:


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    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    takola wrote: »
    Course your friends would use it wouldn't they?? :p

    Thats right, all your mates are still going to Envy...


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    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »
    Thats right, all your mates are still going to Envy...

    I don't have any friends :(


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    il gatto
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    Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »
    Thats right, all your mates are still going to Envy...

    Like Toffs is much better:rolleyes:


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    #24
    Gillie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,640 ✭✭✭Gillie


    Stay on topic please.
    We've had enough $hite in the last two days here!

    Thank you.


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    #25
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Gillie wrote: »
    Stay on topic please.
    We've had enough $hite in the last two days here!

    Thank you.

    Sorry, you're right, I should have said Da Nox!


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    #26
    sligobhoy67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    mink or minker isnt just Sligo - ya bunch a gomie shams!

    waboi!
    exp.

    hello chap!


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    AlmightyCushion
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    The amount of text speak on that site is truly sickening.


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    #28
    fillefatale
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    il gatto wrote: »
    There's very few slang terms exclusive to Sligo. "Minker" would be one. The rest are in common usage elsewhere. Sligo(nian?) is more about the accent than the wording. There's a whole world of youth slang that will never stick, due to it's utter crapness. "Toffin'"? That's muppet speak for "desparate to create new slang terms".:rolleyes:

    win.


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    #29
    TheBeach
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭TheBeach


    I'll ask me Mudder and Fadder to see if they have any examples!:D Liked the Xanadu's one, but always had it as beginning with Z in my head.:confused:


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    redarmyblues
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    Slang for Xanadus used to be Xanabuffs pronounced eggzaaaaanbuffs due to the preponderance of rural types in the early days
    It was also known as the Appliance of Science.


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    elshambo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭elshambo


    Ye will be glad to know(?) the term "5 pinter" for a rough burd as seen in a 1000 emails and Viz was created by a Sligo man aka me!


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