Words only the Irish use.

[theticklemister]

Im starving-------- usually it means im hungry or cold; at 2.40am in the morn it could mean both.

[Main Street]

Some older Monaghan expressions.

Alternating  'shockin' & 'tarror'  (terrible)

'It's shockin' weather today'
reply  'it's a tarror'
or
A  - 'It's a tarror today'
B  -  'shockin'
That would have been the older generation up to the mid 1960's. As kids we use to play this one on our elders and hit the floor laughing,
Use 'shockin' in one statement get the reply 'tarror',  use 'tarror'  in the next statement and we'd get the reply 'shockin'
maybe we were easily amused but that sent us into stitches of laughter.

Then we have  'ach I know'  which doesn't mean, 'Yes, I know'
not even 'ach I know that',  means 'Yes  I know'
'ach I know' is said with lightening speed, like Monaghan becomes Monnan , 'ach I know' becomes  'ackiknow'

'Ackiknow'  is just an automatic reflex to indicate that you've listened to what the other person has said and agree with the gist of what has been said or just a polite expression to indicate that part of the conversation is over.
When meeting my (know it all) Kerry relatives, they would think I was trying to be a know it all, when I could barely understand what was coming out of their mouths. When I moved to Dublin, in school 'ackiknow' became my nickname so I learned fast to drop it from my vocabulary.

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Did the meaning starving not originally relate to cold? And then was later applied to hunger. Thats what I always thought. My dad uses it to described cold. He also uses 'scarred' instead of scared and 'afeared' instead of afraid.

Aye feared or afeared still very common in these parts

[ApresMatch]

wee - as in small

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

wee - as in small

Wee seems to be an Ulster-Very North Leinster thing as far as I can see (& Scotland), small or little (pronounced likkel) seems to be used by the most of the rest of us. Don't really like the word myself.

Another Ulster specific word I come across among the Irish over here is "dose", another stupid word.

I do like the Connacht word, Cuntish, esp. with the very Connacht Pure before it, "thats pure cuntish". Mighty is another word used alot in Connacht. Also strangely "Guy" seems to be common in Mayo and parts of bordering Sligo, Roscommon and Galway.

[Farrandeelin]

Don't know mghu, I usually use the suffix 'een' to describe something small.

Anyone else use the word shitehawk?

[stew]

Shitehawk was big in Armagh.

ket: as in thon number 14 is pure ket=  that number 14  is Shite altogether!

Use un's.............. grange speak for you lot or you people.

Spake...........speak.

Bake = mouth.

[BennyCake]

Shitehawk was big in Armagh.

ket: as in thon number 14 is pure ket=  that number 14  is Shite altogether!

Use un's.............. grange speak for you lot or you people.

Spake...........speak.

Bake = mouth.

I'm not sure if it's spelt 'ket' or 'cat', but the meaning (or at least the one I'm aware of) comes from turf cutting. When turf was dug by hand, if there was a gathering of stringy/fibre-y material (probably rotted tree/plants), that prevented a good clean cut of the sod. That stuff was called 'ket' or 'cat', hence the saying such as 'hes cat' or 'that's cat'.

[ballela-angel]

"One more clean shirt will do him" - Meaning "He'll be dead within the week"

"Touching cloth" - Meaning - "A toilet visit is urgently needed"

[Mayo4Sam]

I think it's a mayo thing but using **** not just as a noun but a verb and adjective
Cuntish & cuntyhooks

I said to someone the other day when ur done drawing food in here will u close that door, she looked at me like I was speaking French

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Don't know mghu, I usually use the suffix 'een' to describe something small.

Anyone else use the word shitehawk?

Actually I do use "een" also, I presume it comes from Irish.

Yip use shitehawk.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Shitehawk was big in Armagh.

ket: as in thon number 14 is pure ket=  that number 14  is Shite altogether!

Use un's.............. grange speak for you lot or you people.

Spake...........speak.

Bake = mouth.

I know a few Belfast folk who use the word bake.

"Melt" seems to be another one used in the more northerly reaches of the island.

Your man and Your woman, oul-lad, oul-wan are other Irish ones.

Connacht, Munster and Traveller speak seems to throw up Beure/Bure and Feen in various place including Castlebar.

Bold/Bould (for naughty)

Cute Hoar

Dirty Article

Bad b**tard

Cheeky c**t

Smartarse

Stall the Digger

Hows Your mother for sugar

Neeps (for sweets)

Horse it in ta ya

Horsebox

Smell a shite a ya

[BennyCake]

Is this a nationwide one?...

Look at the 'cut' o' that!... As in, look at the state of him/her/it.

[GAA_Talk]

What about saying 'so I did' and 'so I am' at the end of sentences. As in "I was down at the pub all day so I was" or about other people. "he played well so he did."

Always have a wee laugh when I hear that so I do.

[theticklemister]

Bake comes from the Ulster Scotch language............ Ahem dialect.