i was haunted!

smackbunnybaby

i was haunted! - "i was very lucky!"
is this a cork saying, no one else in the country i know seems to use it.
does anyone actually know where this phrase came from?

gimmick

I think in other parts of the country it means "I was unlucky".

Stupid outsiders

Tiriel

definitely means "I was lucky" as in I was haunted.. someone was looking over me / protecting me... that's what I always mean when I say it!!

JohnK

Its something I hear a good bit but now that you mention it, I don't think I’ve ever heard it outside of Cork.

CathalMc

Taking it somewhat literally, it could mean either, "I was haunted" could mean any sort of unusual occurrences were happening. Mind you, I think I've heard it used (in Cork) mostly in situations where despite all the person's attempts their goal was just out of reach. Like someone who misses 3 sitters in a row in soccer...

daveirl

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Femelade

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do they not?
i always say it but i guess i never think thet its not said in other places.

dudara

It has two meanings to me.

"I was haunted" - I was desperately unlucky, just missing out.

"I was haunted lucky" - Getting something by luck that you really shouldn't have, ie the last seat on a lifeboat from the titanic

deRanged

dudara wrote:

"I was haunted" - I was desperately unlucky, just missing out.

it'd be the opposite for me. haunted == lucky.

parsi

The guy at the next desk always uses haunted=lucky.

When I first came to Cork I people used give me strange looks when I talked about gawking as in "sure we'll go and have a gawk"

growler

haunted means lucky in cork vocab, don't know where it came from though ( like most cork words)

simu

Haunted? I never heard it tbh. Is it a city or country thing?

nesf

"He was haunted" - He was very lucky.

A common saying in the country at least. I don't think I've heard it in the city.

magpie

I don't think I've heard it in the city

Less of our vernacular is púca/banshee based

Gandhi

Right after 9/11, one of my room-mates told us all that his friend had moved offices out of the WTC three weeks beforehand, so everyone was commenting about how haunted he was.

My wife (American) had been telling people for years that he was brutally traumatised until I explained to her a few months ago what "haunted" meant.

reic

I'm, city, through and through.

I'm haunted = I'm lucky.

magpie

By "City" I meant Dublin.

LegacyUser

magpie wrote:

By "City" I meant Dublin.

AKA The Dump?


Poxed is another word for lucky.

LegacyUser

Is there a recent threads page, or do you have to navigate through the forums?

jank

Heard in the city too. Sometimes use it myself without actually knowing who used it.

nesf

magpie wrote:

By "City" I meant Dublin.

Um. But if you're posting on the Cork City board that doesn't make any sense mate tbh.

magpie

AKA The Dump?

Yes, exactly!

But if you're posting on the Cork City board that doesn't make any sense mate tbh.

Ah, I didn't look at which forum this was on. My apologies.

MidnightQueen

Cork_girl wrote:

definitely means "I was lucky" as in I was haunted.. someone was looking over me / protecting me... that's what I always mean when I say it!!

Such supersticious people!