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Galway sayings

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  • 23-09-2011 12:26am
    #1
    scholar007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭


    Howya Luveens - Whos next?


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    #2
    GalwayGaillimh
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭GalwayGaillimh


    Like you know Like!

    Si Deus Nobiscum Qui Contra Nos



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    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,173 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Argh ah Jaysus like

    "I do be" in stitches laughing at him


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    #4
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Ya mong.

    Ya gomey.

    Some feen.

    Subla.

    You're sh*tehawkin' now!


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    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,163 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    You're PURE wrong, hes a PURE mong etc etc.


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


    Dya know now who she is...

    Ah sure..

    I do be..


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    Placebo Effect
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭Placebo Effect


    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    Ya mong.

    Ya gomey.

    Some feen.

    Subla     .

    You're sh*tehawkin' now!


    Born & reared in Galway City & never heard any of them??


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    siltirocker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭siltirocker


    You serious??? :eek::confused:

    From the hills of Glenina to the valley of Shantalla that stuff is used.


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    Placebo Effect
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    siltirocker wrote: »
    You serious??? :eek::confused:

    From the hills of Glenina to the valley of Shantalla that stuff is used.


    YEP..


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


    Placebo Effect wrote: »
    Born & reared in Galway City & never heard any of them??

    Go way from around meeeeeee, ya handicaped! You're some gomey never havin' heard of those words.

    Are you one of those soft feens from Taylors Hill or whaaa?

    Subla!


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    beardybrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭beardybrewer


    fo shizzle my nizzle, bitches!

    a galway classic


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    barone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭barone


    look at the cut of yer wan..

    suss lads!!!

    sham, its cowld


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    #13
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Oh, God blessus and saveus!

    Would ya go away outta that.


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


    Never heard of 'subla'!

    Feens and bures...

    Will ya shift yer man?


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


    Will you shift my friend?


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    #16
    beeintheknow
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭beeintheknow


    subla sounds to me like a corruption/derivation of soubelline.

    There was a thread like this on here a while back and that was utter rubbish too.


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


    "The head on yooo" beeintheknow..


    Here's the old thread from last year, FYI.


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    Placebo Effect
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭Placebo Effect


    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    Go way from around meeeeeee, ya handicaped! You're some gomey never havin' heard of those words.

    Are you one of those soft feens from Taylors Hill or whaaa?

    Subla!

    I think it may be an age thing...I'm late 30's and 'gomey' or 'subla' or 'feens' I've never heard..in the last few years I've heard 'feeks' , is that the same as 'feens'?

    Seems to be younger generation slang...not old Galway,


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


    Placebo Effect wrote: »
    I think it may be an age thing...I'm late 30's and 'gomey' or 'subla' or 'feens' I've never heard..in the last few years I've heard 'feeks' , is that the same as 'feens'?

    Seems to be younger generation slang...not old Galway,

    Feek!! Forgot that one!
    Gomey head on ya was pretty common when I was a kid..
    Ya haaaandicap (terrible) reminds me of Lurgan Park ... that's where I first heard kids using it! Also 'mowldy'.. (as in mouldy)


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    barone
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    feen and bure is traveller 'caint' or 'cant' talk, feen is man, beaur is woman


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    #21
    [Deleted User]
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    Jaysis yer wan is some feek!

    Ah that's just cat-malodean, you're talking packets!


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    barone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭barone


    Placebo Effect wrote: »
    I think it may be an age thing...I'm late 30's and 'gomey' or 'subla' or 'feens' I've never heard..in the last few years I've heard 'feeks' , is that the same as 'feens'?

    Seems to be younger generation slang...not old Galway,


    im 37, heard all these growing up in galway,very common, guess its where u went to school / lived etc


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    #23
    barone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭barone


    beag , thats another one.. to rob something


    lorc.. a car..


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    #24
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Ha ha, forgot about feek and mouldy.

    If you were beaging someting you would also be macin' it. You could also be macin' a feen;

    Come'ere youngflaa...do I owe you a batin'? What size runners are ya? Gis a go of your mobile?


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    #25
    hiscan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    "Are ya wide Sham?"


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    #26
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    He's a good ladeen


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    #27
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users Posts: 10,210 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Would ya go way from round me ya gowl bag


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    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    "Somebody maced my drink"

    Some good ones on:
    http://slang.ie/


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    #29
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Here...are ya goin lushin?


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    #30
    BESman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 563 ✭✭✭BESman


    These seem more like general slang you'd hear in most parts of the country, or at least the west, amongst younger folk. Surprised scan hasn't been mentioned. Or shape.

    As in "Howya scan, you pullin a lushin shape tonight?"

    I've also been told in other parts of the country that they don't understand "anymore". Other counties say "from now on" instead of "anymore". Weird...

    Anyway, I think Galway is a bit unique in that the accent is kind of flat and not very distinctive and there isn't a huge amount of indigenous phrases or words. Try living in Dublin, Limerick or Cork. Extremely thick accents and a language of their own to go with it. Galway doesn't really have that.


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    whineflu
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭whineflu


    barone wrote: »
    im 37, heard all these growing up in galway,very common, guess its where u went to school / lived etc

    Yeah I went to Marys in the late 80s. Only the boarders from Tuam used to say sham, feen and feek but they gradually spread to everyone over the years. Possibly Travellers who got housed spread that too.
    Also words like "gomey" and "crush" are all new slang. The nacks came up with them and the Jez boys start using them to sound "street". My ould lad never even heard of a lot of them and he is old school.


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