Limerick Colloquialisms

cornbb

So I movel to limerick from cork about 5 years ago and started hearing freaky words I'd never heard before. Examples:

Tackies - runners
Ghoul (pronounced "gowl") - person of sub-par intelligence

Anyone got any more examples?

Photi

Limerick people say 'love' an awful lot.

1huge1

maybe im wrong but ppl in limerick city seem to say 'well bud' a lot

Downtime

"How you kid"
"How you shame"

Tinkers refereed to as "pavvies"

cornbb

...and saying "of a Friday" instead of "on Fridays"...

zippo22

"I'll stab ya."

Zapho

o'rite kid?
Na-ful smell of meee tackies!! yyyeaaaahhh!!!
Travellers are also often refered to as "Kn*ckers". (I'm trying to be PC!)

Baldie

zippo22 wrote:

"I'll stab ya."

Obviously not from Limerick then.... :mad:

"like..."

e.g. "Do ya know wa i mean like...

billy the squid

Downtime wrote:

"How you kid"
"How you shame"

Tinkers refereed to as "pavvies"

I will not have words like "Tinkers" or other derogetory words directed towards the travelling community used here. dont do it again.

as for limerick phrases, i find that limerick people to be quite dizzy, they always "turn around" before saying something

oh i turned around and said blah blah blah

and so on.

billy the squid

zippo22 wrote:

"I'll stab ya."

heres a better one

"i'll ban you "

Baldie

billy the squid wrote:

heres a better one

"i'll ban you "

Well said....

"C'meer I tell ya a question..."

"C'meer I want ya..."

moshpit77

fu<kin skobe

cornbb

Slightly off topic but...

...a friend of a friend described a sexual encounter he had with a local girl at the back of Supermacs. She used the line "lob it into me there boss"

Classic

limerick_man

Wow, so many terms i've never heard! Also some rascist ones ... thank you Downtime!

Wow this thread can do so much wrong! And still its here!!!

The Lopper

All of the above plus the following rarer terms:

Fresh - used to acknowledge a good joke

rapid - good, sound, great, etc

jammers - packed.

gregos

cornbb wrote:

So I movel to limerick from cork about 5 years ago and started hearing freaky words I'd never heard before. Examples:

Tackies - runners
Ghoul (pronounced "gowl") - person of sub-par intelligence

Anyone got any more examples?

No. It's not ghoul. It's actually the Irish word "gabhal", meaning fork or crotch. Draw your own conclusions! The word tackies is also used in Ennis and throughout South Africa.

gregos

billy the squid wrote:

I will not have words like "Tinkers" or other derogetory words directed towards the travelling community used here.

In what way is the word "tinker" derogatory? What does it mean?

billy the squid

such a rhetorical question

i dont like where this thread is going

oh and gregos, in the context it is being used in this thread, it is derogetory.

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