Irish Slang and sayings

galwayrush

Doc Ruby wrote: »

We beeged the gaff then shkinned out cos da shades war leggin and I'd ta feek me beaure too.

With compliments, from deepest darkest Galway.

Tuam ?

stupidusername

Hahah love this:
I'd bleedin' lash her outta it - Shows one's eagerness to have sexual relations with a young upstanding female.

and as for well? it's definitely not as formal/meaningful as: Hello, pleasure to met you.

ballsymchugh

i thought jaffa was norn iron slang for a protestant, not a 'red haired person with an attitude'

Doc Ruby

galwayrush wrote: »

Tuam ?

They've yet to evolve beyond monosyllabic proto-languages out that way, never mind slang.

I keed, anyone from Tuam, I keed because I love!

later12

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Your goolies are your balls ya muppeh'!

I think my parents didn't get that memo. We grew up having a goolies as in singular? i don't know what we called 'nuts', I think by the time they dropped we were probably too old to call them anything but 'nuts'.

John Doe1

I use this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_Ulster_English and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_dialects

Hogzy

recyclebin wrote: »

quare used instead of very. pronounced "kware"
eg 1 that was quare funny
eg 2 that exam was quare hard

Are you talking about people from Tipperary using the word "Fair".

eg 1 that was quare fair funny
eg 2 that exam was quare fair hard

Its an abbreviation of the world fairly. A stupid abbreviation IMO. But i cant say much. Im from Cork.

cocoshovel

Whoever wrote the term for hippy in the belfast section is clearly insulted by it.

saywhatyousee

Doc Ruby wrote: »

We beeged the gaff then shkinned out cos da shades war leggin and I'd ta feek me beaure too.

With compliments, from deepest darkest Galway.

I think that translates as "We robbed the house and legged it out of there because the guards were coming and i had to have sex with my girlfriend.

Big Nasty

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i thought jaffa was norn iron slang for a protestant, not a 'red haired person with an attitude'

Jaffa can also be used for an infertile gentleman.

Doc Ruby

saywhatyousee wrote: »

I think that translates as "We robbed the house and legged it out of there because the guards were coming and i had to have sex with my girlfriend.

Correct, easy knowing you're from Sligo!

No, no, I love Sligo too. Some very beautiful women out there.

stupidusername

I say fair meaning very etc. sounds normal to me.

and quare is what others say. though quare is also what some country folk (maybe just Tippers) say for odd - that lad is awful quare. though I don't know if that version would actually be 'queer' and it's taken on the 'odd' meaning.

later12

Hogzy wrote: »

Are you talking about people from Tipperary using the word "Fair".

Actually I come from Tipperary, and I usually hear 'quare' and 'fair' being used interchangeably to mean 'very', 'quite'.

'Right' is also used in that context, as in I was right drunk, I'm right tired, etc. But that may not be just an Irish thing?

Often you would put by (is it boy?) at the end as well.

'It's quare cold out now, by'

saywhatyousee

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Correct, easy knowing you're from Sligo!

No, no, I love Sligo too. Some very beautiful women out there.

Its traveler speak that i used to live close enough to a halting site
Beeggeee iss chazz=Rob his phone in traveler kant language

Hogzy

later10 wrote: »

Actually I come from Tipperary, and I usually hear 'quare' and 'fair' being used interchangeably to mean 'very', 'quite'.

'Right' is also used in that context, as in I was right drunk, I'm right tired, etc. But that may not be just an Irish thing?

Often you would put by (is it boy?) at the end as well.

'It's quare cold out now, by'

I have a cousin from Tip that answers the phone by saying "Well". That f*ckin grind my gears!!!!

stupidusername

Hogzy wrote: »

I have a cousin from Tip that answers the phone by saying "Well". That f*ckin grind my gears!!!!

we pass people in the street, one says well, the other goes well.

Doc Ruby

saywhatyousee wrote: »

Its traveler speak that i used to live close enough to a halting site
Beeggeee iss chazz=Rob his phone in traveler kant language

Where do you think the travellers learned it?

Jesus Wept

hunter164 wrote: »

Or snatch or growler

Pretty certain they are english slang.

Goothar.

dxhound2005

McChubbin wrote: »

It wasn't widely used in my family-we tend to say 'fanny', 'tuppence' or "cookie" for some bizarre reason.
Back on topic, my grandmother's quite fond of saying "Ye whore's mouth!", though she prounces 'Whore' as "Hoo-err".

Good times!

That could be a mishearing of Whore's melt.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoores%20melt

A few from my days growing up on the Cavan Fermanagh border.

You're only a clem, a clem being a wooden peg which was clamped above the testicles of a calf after the scrotum had been cut open allowing to testicles to wither away. This is how castration was done in the old days.

You're only a knuck, knuck being derived from eunuch I suppose.

Both of those meant contemptible person. It's a holy parable meaning an unusual story or happening. And the word claven explained here.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FERMANAGH-GOLD/2011-05/1305069841

susita06

Ate'n tackie = limerick slang for I was running very quickly in my runners .

Hogzy

Hogzy wrote: »

I have a cousin from Tip that answers the phone by saying "Well". That f*ckin grind my gears!!!!

I know a few people in Kerry who do that.

Johro

baz2009 wrote: »

I love the word gee.:)

I hate it. The word I mean.

GASMANN

badger glue.


in a sentance : " she got badger glue all over me last night "

seXmym0nkey

It's brilliant when you see the 'Glee' ads on telly where it just says 'G ee' and then a finger gets shoved into the gee to make an L!

Tope

later10 wrote: »

Actually I come from Tipperary, and I usually hear 'quare' and 'fair' being used interchangeably to mean 'very', 'quite'.

'Right' is also used in that context, as in I was right drunk, I'm right tired, etc. But that may not be just an Irish thing?

Often you would put by (is it boy?) at the end as well.

'It's quare cold out now, by'

My mum's from Co. Down and also uses “quare” in a similar way, usually in the phrase “We had a quare laugh” when telling of an amusing incident.

On the subject of the word 'gee', when I was very young I read the word 'vagina' in a book before I'd ever heard it, and thought it was pronounced 'va-geena' for ages. So when a few years later I heard the word 'gee' I immediately knew what it meant!
I wonder if this has anything to do with the origin of the word 'gee'? Maybe it was mispronounced by Irish people originally, thus leading to 'gee' being short for 'va-geena'?

stupidusername

i was recently informed that it's not pronounced gee as in 'g' but gee as in you would say gay ...but eee

Tope

Tope wrote: »

On the subject of the word 'gee', when I was very young I read the word 'vagina' in a book before I'd ever heard it, and thought it was pronounced 'va-geena' for ages. So when a few years later I heard the word 'gee' I immediately knew what it meant!
I wonder if this has anything to do with the origin of the word 'gee'? Maybe it was mispronounced by Irish people originally, thus leading to 'gee' being short for 'va-geena'?

Could be. I thought the same when I saw the word 'vagina' in the Tree of Knowledge encyclopaedia as a child.

stupidusername

stupidusername wrote: »

i was recently informed that it's not pronounced gee as in 'g' but gee as in you would say gay ...but eee

Yep. Hard G rather than soft.

stupidusername

but that just sounds retarded

Tope

Oh yes, hard 'g' all the way. Otherwise it'd be like the gee in "Gee whizz!". Which would of course be ridiculous.