Cork words you just don't hear anymore

JaneHudson

Today FM has since ruined 'Gawk' for me. I can't hear it without thinking "...all over me walnut dash."

newbee22

The one thing I miss about working in the northside is that us southsiders don't speak Corkonain the way they do! I do notice my teenage sister and her friends using daycent a lot but that is just about what I hear now!

gimmick

kub wrote: »

Cemer feen did ya ever have a gawk at d PROC boy?

Careful now.....

cornbb

Wah, beour, gowl and skobe were all used in Limerick too when I lived there. Not some of the other ones mentioned here though. Keep it up

trynabe

anyone remeber l.o.b ,,youd say it when the law was spotted if you were up to no good L,O,B L,O,B
or mebbs was a word to describe ur balls as in <<< i will in me mebbs //
sham alive was another
ive millions bein northside meself and me n me friends use em now 4 a laugh
gettin a 50 from an ol doll was getting stood up by her
mouldy drunk
kicked to death was another favourite

johnayo

My wan is gone shoppin. My wife is shopping.

He is a right Spadgie.

ShamFeen

I remember a chat on 96fm before about it, think it was Prendo or Mick Mul. Someone rang in, presenter: "What's your word caller?", Caller "Gowan". "Can you put that in a sentence?", "Gowan outta that ya gowl!" A little while later same caller unnoticed by presenter "Word is smee" Same question, "Smee again ya langer!" Cork humour, can't bate it!!!!

Dixie Chick

This thread is so funny, I use all those words all the time cos I just love Cork slang!!

So did ya meet your manno last night for your jag?
Nah girl he gave me a 50!

Scabby- mean
Langy- hang off the back of the bus or hop into a taxi and not pay
Mockeeah- fake
My cot- my bed
Tommy bolla- load of crap
A monkey- 500 euros


Then my dad has this whole phrase he usees and finishes himself..like if he got a bargain somewhere he would say "bate it?, you couldnt!"

Poppies- potatoes, it always surprises me no on knows this outside cork!

Gowl/mog/spa/mongo

Bogwash- wetting teh tip of a shared fag!

Gat- are you going gatting tonoght? Dont mind him he is full of gat!

cjmcork

Ludo wrote: »

I actually heard someone refer to a colleague as a gowl in the office yesterday...thought to myself that there's a word I hadn;t heard in a long time.

Jointed is another one I haven;t heard in ages.

there's a sign for the River Gowl just after the Cullahill bypass on the Cork / Dublin road.......some day I'm gonna take a pic of me standing next to it in a PRC t-shirt and post it on my f/b page!:p

discostu1

Bazzer a hair cut

Rubber dollies an early version of sneakers,

dhoun

Feen and beoir sound like mockeyah words to me. Never heard them when I was growing up ...

cjmcork

feen and biore are as much Cork as the Lee.........I'm scarle' for ya!:D

harry21

I worked with a fella years ago and he used to say 'pass me da fandangle' meaning pass me the 'insert random object'.

Still use it myself. Anyone?

dhoun

'That's me daza' (as in that's bril) is a real old one.

dhoun

'whatchamacallit'

johnayo

where's the fuji-baa

johnayo

I'm hitting the sack.(off to bed)

dhoun

johnayo wrote: »

where's the fuji-baa

That's a new one on me ....

mik_da_man

This may be one that people on here still use but I am totally confused by it...

"Your Haunted" - meaning your very lucky
I have never heard it in any other part of the country but seems to be used by a few people I work with.

Anyone know how that one came about?

Always reckoned it was coined from having a little bit of good spirits on your side, sort of "someone" looking after you thing.

harry21

dhoun wrote: »

'That's me daza' (as in that's bril) is a real old one.

Ya I use that one quite a bit too. Its a nice one!

ShamFeen

That's the/me berries! Meaning brilliant. Also used to work with an older gentleman who used to call everyone, "old stock".

dhoun

This is a bit crude I know ...

Nobber (gentleman who 'likes' the ladies)

ryanah

Monboy Willa .................... Come on boy

seamusmcspud

just a few more....

"your murder" or "tiz murder" - your a rather cheeky chap

"divil a bit" - not doing anything in particular ... (this is flexible too)

"lapsy pa" - smething you'd put on your hands??? ...

"haunted" - a lucky chap

"3 and 6" - not a bob

a 5-8- a poorly qualified tradesman

cjmcork

yeah, I still use 'haunted' and 'flahed out' (which I don't think has been mentioned yet!)

Lapsy pa - I use it all the time, but would struggle to define it!!

johnayo

Did she have a boy or a child.

Shes up the pole.(she is pregnant).

tenreds

love this thread,left cork nearly 20 years ago and I know most of these sayings ( I'm from northside)

cjmcork

tenreds wrote: »

love this thread,left cork nearly 20 years ago and I know most of these sayings ( I'm from northside)

I didn't think they used those phrases in Montenotte like!

dhoun

cjmcork wrote: »

I didn't think they used those phrases in Montenotte like!

That's what you think. We used them all!