Sayings.....Rural/Regional even Funny!

Muckit

"Thanks Noddy" should have been the reply!

Bullocks

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Took me a while to find this thread again!
Yesterday I was pulling our empty milk tanker out of the field to attach it to the quad and Dad pipes up from the road ''If you had bigger ears, you'd be as good as a donkey''

:pac:

Or "if you had a stump of a tail you'd be a horse of a man" (or woman)!

keepalive213

a head like a busted wellington

a dose of the horn

as mean as dog ****

"mighty" is a well used word around here, for praising someone/something

Bluck mór - someone big headed

heldel00

Trawhook - as in an old flirty woman that is desperate for a man.
"She's a real trawhook."

Anyone ever hear of it before?

The Rabbi

He would be a horse of a man if he could sh1t walking.

feartuath

Fine weather recently reminded me of a saying my late father said when thirsty.

I am as dry as a salt box.

another one around here if there was a large crowd in the pub.

You couldn't draw your leg in the place.


as in you couldn't cross your legs.

Lambman

The aul mans saying here is "I'm that unlucky if Dolly Parton had triplets I'd be the **** on the bottle".

Dakota Dan

feartuath wrote: »

Fine weather recently reminded me of a saying my late father said when thirsty.

I am as dry as a salt box.

another one around here if there was a large crowd in the pub.

You couldn't draw your leg in the place.


as in you couldn't cross your legs.

Or there isn't room to fart in here.

Dakota Dan

would you look at the head on yourman and the price of turnips, I think it means that he's an ugly b@stard.

ChippingSodbury

Ugly: A face like a sunburned sh1t
Thirsty: My mouth is like the inside of an Arab's tacky (tacky=runner, for those not from Limerick!)

ganmo

i've missed this thread

FFred

Used here in South Kilkenny to describe an offspring who has inherited undesirable traits from their parents :

Scuttery cow ... scuttery calf

Snowfire

If he’d two brains, he’d be twice as thick.

mfceiling

There was that big a crowd in the pub that you couldn't have turned a sweet in your mouth.

severeoversteer

''i'll put an ass's head on ya''


''I was within an ass's roar of him''




when someone is mean (tight) ie. cavan folk:

''they'd eat their dinner in a drawer''

Lambman

At a pedigree sale years ago the auctioneer was doing his best till sell a well bred ram saying stuff like your guaranteed good lambs off this fella etc.... When an aul farmer shouts up many a good man had a **** off a son.

sandydan

severeoversteer wrote: »

''i'll put an ass's head on ya''


''I was within an ass's roar of him''




when someone is mean (tight) ie. cavan folk:

''they'd eat their dinner in a drawer''

down our way if ya didnt like some one you say
you woulnt go within an asses roar of him / her

studdlymurphy

Lambman wrote:

The aul mans saying here is "I'm that unlucky if Dolly Parton had triplets I'd be the **** on the bottle".

Or if i fell into a bucket of nipples id still come out sucking my thumb

keepalive213

He'd drink it out of a wellington ie. mad for liquor

KatyMac

OH accused me of being really 'Irish' the other day - I described a place as 'round the bend up the road'. He said I was the one round the bend:)

Ted_YNWA

KatyMac wrote: »

OH accused me of being really 'Irish' the other day - I described a place as 'round the bend up the road'. He said I was the one round the bend:)

If you get to the fork in the road, you have gone too far.

patsy_mccabe

Heard someone today refer to their false teeth as the 32 counties.

jimmy G M

A couple of locals here talking about the drought, silage yields etc, most lads short of fodder etc.

One guy say he has the same amount of grass as he had last year............ just a lot shorter.

jimini0

Don't know if it was mentioned but
"The tide wouldn't even take her/him out"
Meaning undateable

Buford T. Justice XIX

Just saw a good one today on Twitter.

I'm so busy I don't know if I found a rope or lost a horse.

Who2

I heard a lad describing someone recently and he said” she’s had more passengers than cie “

Dickie10

"serious" is a saying for being very good in areas in western Meath not to be confused with westmeath. ie "hes a serious footballer"

Dickie10

"horrid" =horrid meaning very good again mostly found in Meath espicaly north and western Meath

Dickie10

"a stones of a young lad " meaning an egit off a young lad. mostly westmeath, north offaly and south western meath region. could be all over the rest of the midlands though

charolais0153

Dickie10 wrote: »

"serious" is a saying for being very good in areas in western Meath not to be confused with westmeath. ie "hes a serious footballer"

Thought thatd be fairly common