The Culchie to English Dictionary

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The Culchie to English Dictionary.

The following is a list of words and phrases that can often be heard :

A fierce pile of bog: A sizable quantity of bog

Go'wan ta fúck autt a dat: Please go away

A Thundering Fúck: An unreliable person

A shlap in the face of a brick: To be struck square in the face with a brick

A soft day: Miserable ****ing weather

Hardy Man: Someone who can survive waking up buck naked in filth ditch water on January 1st after a year long drinking session

Machine: General purpose term used to refer to any man made implement more advanced than a pitch fork

Hang sangwedge: Salty ham surrounded by two slices of stale bread. A buffer of cheap margerine, preferably Blue-Brand (half an inch thick), must separate the ham from the bread.

A paka ha tayho: A bag of crisps

A Scalping with an Ash Plant: The direct translation of this has been lost to the winds of the Kingdom (of Kerry that is) but a rough approximation is: to be suddenly introduced in a violent fashion to a large stick. Usually being wielded by a native farmer who by the look of him has missed a few steps on the evolutionary ladder.

Girleen: Any girl that an older man would like to get his leg over.

Boyeen:See above

Boreen: A pile of rocks that denote the path a culchie takes from the road to the farmhouse.

Land Rover: Usually a ford escort van that has seen better days.

Mighty!: Indicative of something being very good

Craic: Fun, as in Mighty Craic! or The Craic was Mighty!

Grand altogether: Same boring state of affairs.

Locked: Very drunk.

After a few shcoops: Reasonably drunk.

Bollox: Multiple uses, generally derogatory

Fúck of a ting: Something very difficult to do or use.

Jaysus: An expression of surprise.

Be Jaysus: An expression of sheer surprise.

Fukdat: An expression of mild displeasure

Yoke: Just about anything whose proper description doesn't spring to mind.

Fierce: It is, yes.

Eegit: Somebody less intelligent than oneself, i.e a complete fool altogether.

A cute Hoor: Somebody more intelligent than oneself, i.e. not a complete fool altogether. In some situations this may refer to a person's ability to weasel out of buying their round of drinks, particularly in Co Cork, as in "Ye cute Cork Hoor".

A tight Kunt: Similar to " A cute Hoor " and again has very little to do with the fairer sex except in perhaps her inability to fork out for her share of booze.

Gobshíte: Someone very high in the "Eegit" stakes but will generally be a tourist or perhaps from Dublin.

An onmerciful fe-ad: A very large Sunday dinner partaken after several pints of Guinness.

Pugsley

rofl, some great ones there, especially 'yoke'

Mr_Roger_Bongos

Just to correct the dictionary

"Cute cork Hoor" was actually not invented in crok, but in cavan.

And so

"YURE A CUTE CAVANNN HOOR! BUYO !"

often used when making reference to someones shiftiness or the ability to remove oneself from undesirable situations.