An Australian I know had to ask me the meaning of this "Irish" word:
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An Australian I know had to ask me the meaning of this "Irish" word:
Bould(sp?)-Bold
Magicme, "so I did" isn't just a Monaghan thing, it extends up to Belfast and all so it does.
It took me a long while after moving down here to get used to the idea that bacon is something people eat with cabbage whereas rashers are what they fry with sausages and eggs.
Considering most people who wear them can't actually do so, calling those items of footwear runners is just daft. Trainers at least preserves the fiction that you're only building up to a full-blown actual run.
A cupboard is still a cupboard though, airing or otherwise.
"See you?" as a threatening remark is one that simply has no southern equivalent. The only way to explain it is that it's normally followed by "You're dead."
Belfast(and Northeners in general) also say "See" as in "See what I was on about there" even though you can't see anything:D. Also say "wee" a lot, "theirs a good wee man" "hold on a wee minute".Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
Bacon is something you have with cabbage and something you fry with sausages & eggs but the cut of bacon that you fry is called a rasher. Nothing to get your knickers in a knot over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
Your right wee Sligoman, us nordies do use wee alot you see.
I another thing that bugs me is particularly prevelent with my lil sis and my sons...."You know Dylan, he did...." course I feckin know Dylan, didnt I squeeze him outta me??? AGGGH.
Also another thing that doesnt really make sense is starting sentences with "Well" as in "Well missus, you going out tonite?"
That's even worse then! I never knew friend was a purely Irish word, ya truly do learn something new every day. ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
That's a good one though Stu, even without the 'having' part. I'm only after me tea is a very common expression down this way.
There's a dictionary of Waterford slang out just recently down here, has a few choice words and phrases in it, most I suspect are common to most of the country, but some examples:
Shellackybooky - Snail
Lacksy Daisy - Lackadaisical
Blaa - Soul food :)
Yer go - A good hiding
Ya cuncha - You not very likeable person, you
and so on...
Actually, now that you say it, I think you're right, not me. "Me mate" is the Irish-ism, but in England they use "mate" a lot too, just in a different way ("Ai maite!" Or is that Australia?). I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
omg- wrecks my head
:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I go playing football of a Sunday.
There used to be a saying when I was a young buckQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
"does be and do be is a sign of a boobie" :D
Also, don't know if it's just a Midlands/West dialect,
saying "pounding" for "pain/hurts"
saying "me" for "my"
as in ... me head is pounding - my head hurts
Well tbh it's quite often "ya know like" here in Galway!Quote:
Originally Posted by First
Sorry!:D
Nah Remember lister in Red Dwarf using it in classic one liner about him drinking a yard of curry sauce to impress a bird and when rimmer asks him if he got off with her he says the only thing i got off was the Jacks about 3 hours later. Classic toilet humour literarlyQuote:
Originally Posted by stann
then again Liverpool is the 33rd county of Ireland so maybee it was passed down by the immigrants
there's another one; or, 'in all fairness'Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
and another i just heard; 'Weary' meaning 'wary'