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Great Galway sayings

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    #32
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Happy out and sound out:)


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    #33
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    fluffyorganic1 wrote: »
    Happy out and sound out:)

    The amount of slagging I used to get for saying 'happy out'..glad someone else knows it's a real saying!


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    #34
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Tomebagel wrote: »
    Wats the shtory trout?

    Ya goin for a jive tonight/Had a serious jive lasnight/ya jiver/stop your jivin.

    Are ya wide sham?

    Go for the buzz mongface

    Serious username. Truth.


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    #35
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    "As the man says"

    The saying that annoyed the **** out of me since I was a baby.


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Howya now?


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    #37
    Dr McManus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Dr McManus


    There was a smell of want about her.


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    #38
    Dr McManus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Dr McManus


    I'm going to head.


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    #39
    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    Lads, while there's a few gems in here, a lot of these are countrywide, some I would even associate more with Dublin.
    Forgot about happy out though, that's a
    great one! :)


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    #40
    Bazzo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭Bazzo


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    Never heard it either.

    Is "Now for ya" , as in "now for ya...what do you think of that?" ,a Galway thing or is it countrywide? I've only heard Galway people saying it.

    That's not specifically a Galway thing.

    Then again, I'm not from Galway and I'm familiar with the majority of these sayings, I'm fairly sure they're mostly just western sayings, not specifically Galway ones.


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    #41
    happyoutscan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Someone: 'Well scan, how are ya getting on?'
    Me: 'Happy out scan, happy out.'


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    #42
    Joe_row_sef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Joe_row_sef


    A phrase in Irish which is commonly used is "Cuireann tu soir me" which in English is you're driving/sending me east.(you're driving me mad basically)

    East, in this phrase, is a reference to Ballinasloe and the mental institution. So when someone says "cuireann tu soir me" what they are saying is "you're driving me to a mental home"
    "Now for ya'!"


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    #43
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    civis_liberalis wrote: »
    Relevant: Local Bargains
    Sorry lads, I thought the thread said "Savings".

    I'll get me coat...


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    #44
    loser2old4board
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭loser2old4board


    Ya know like!

    How's it goin like!

    Yer man.

    Yer wan.


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    #45
    mink_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    loser2old4board wrote: »
    Ya know like!

    How's it goin like!

    Yer man.

    Yer wan.

    love the username :P

    some sayings "well shcan, well shaft, well horsebox"


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    #46
    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
    Registered Users Posts: 7,778 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    Guy 1: "Where you from?"

    Guy 2: "Out wesht."

    Love it!


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    #47
    Steyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    "Crush, here come The Shades!"= Move along quickly An Garda Siochana are coming..:pac:


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    #48
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    I'm goosed.


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    #49
    magentas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭magentas


    OK it's not a saying or phrase but it is unique to Galwegians...

    There is a shop in shantalla called "O'Higgins" but EVERYONE I know from galway calls it "higginsis"!

    Same with Aldi...Aldis!:D


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    #50
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,967 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Steyr wrote: »
    "Crush, here come The Shades!"= Move along quickly An Garda Siochana are coming..:pac:

    Not Galway specific: in fact, I think it's American originally, where cops in some parts really do wear sunglasses.


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    #51
    ScumLord
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    Cuntish, meaning something is bad. I always thought it was used around Ireland but a good few people I've met had never heard of it before.


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    #52
    loser2old4board
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭loser2old4board


    Col200sx wrote: »
    Howya loveen..... or

    How's your-sel

    Claddagh and Shantalla there :D

    'loveen' definitely travelled out as far as old Mervue as well.


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    #53
    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    magentas wrote: »
    OK it's not a saying or phrase but it is unique to Galwegians...

    There is a shop in shantalla called "O'Higgins" but EVERYONE I know from galway calls it "higginsis"!

    Same with Aldi...Aldis!:D

    lol
    I had to direct a confused foreign student Ti 'Higginses' once. But it isn't unique to Galway you hear it done a lot to names in old Dublin, same with yer man and yer wan.


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    #54
    newmug
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    Havent read a single sayin that I havent heard all over the country. Where are you from OP?


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    #55
    Jamey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 389 ✭✭Jamey


    A lot of ones mentioned previous are saying's from Tuam that may have been picked up in Galway through traveller families that moved into the city, etc. I've used Tuam slang (I'm a native) in Galway City and been asked by city people if I was a traveller, and why I was talking like someone from 'westside'. :confused:

    Also, awful strange that 'sham' seems to be a derogatory word for a traveller or scumbag in Galway, where in Tuam it's a friendly term for a native of the town, or a friend.


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    #56
    civis_liberalis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Jamey wrote: »
    Also, awful strange that 'sham' seems to be a derogatory word for a traveller or scumbag in Galway.
    I've haven't heard it used in that context. Always thought, derogatory or not, that it referred to a Tuam native.

    Maybe it's just slang among the Galway scumbags.


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    #57
    goatboy1000
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭goatboy1000


    Mad as a bag of rats

    or

    Mad as a box of frogs

    I never heard either of those before I moved to Galway.


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    #58
    Dr McManus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Dr McManus


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Cuntish, meaning something is bad. I always thought it was used around Ireland but a good few people I've met had never heard of it before.

    Heard it years ago in England.


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    Starie1975
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    JustMary wrote: »
    Not Galway specific: in fact, I think it's American originally, where cops in some parts really do wear sunglasses.

    I thought Da Shades are call that because they wear two shades of blue.

    More slang on
    http://slang.ie/index.php?county=Galway


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    dafunk
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭dafunk


    newmug wrote: »
    Havent read a single sayin that I havent heard all over the country. Where are you from OP?

    +1

    Pretty much all of them I heard growing up in Dublin, with the exception of "loveen" and "happy out".

    I'm not sure if this is a Galway expression but the first time I heard "Good now" was when I moved here.

    "How are you?"

    "Good now"


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    #61
    dolphin city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    Dr McManus wrote: »
    Does anyone know any great Galway sayings?
    I'm hanging on like a loose button, is one of my favourites,

    that is definitely NOT a Galway saying. First time I ever heard it.


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