Words only the Irish use.

[heganboy]

Whisht- as in hould your whisht - keep quiet

and then whisht itself became used for "quiet" but more usually- hang on a minute.

became quickly used to get group members to be quiet in order to draw attention to an attractive lady- and then devolved to being the lady herself. Therefore she's a quare bit of whisht becomes that is a very attractive lady...

[johnneycool]

i don't know if its only the Irish use it but an uncle of mine was regaling a story of a girl and she hadn't a 'runion' on her.

I'd never heard the term runion before but it turns out she was bollock naked.

Is runion in common use?

[An Fear Rua]

our boy or our blade - brother/sister

Skittering gets- noisy boisterous children

Clatter - as in large number of people

quare boy - can be both derrogatory and complimentary , my grandfather used an alternative Keogh boy- "hes some keogh boy"

put spake on him- to question a mans reasoning

Baltic- to be cold

mucksavage

[Aerlik]

My father was great for the auld words.  Among the many he taught us were:
Gipe/gulpin/galloot - fool
gopin - two hands cupped together to lift something
grape - a four-pronged pitchfork
to wale - to pick potatoes (probably from the German waehlen meaning to choose - but he couldn't speak German...must be an East Derry thing
thole - to put up with something
thran - stubborn
clipe - to tell on someone/someone who tells on others
clashbag - someone who tells on others to the teacher
doughal - a midden/shiteheap

My mam, a Dungiven woman, still talks about a burn being a stream.

[Gold]

Another one is "Doofer" (Dont know how to spell it, but this is what it sounds like)

As in something like a small insignificant part of a machine, has anyone else even heard this before?

Some of the relations would use doofer as the word the remote for the tv!

so do mine

[nifan]

Is shitehawk used further afield than here?
Or wab

[Tony Baloney]

My father was great for the auld words.  Among the many he taught us were:
Gipe/gulpin/galloot - fool
gopin - two hands cupped together to lift something
grape - a four-pronged pitchfork
to wale - to pick potatoes (probably from the German waehlen meaning to choose - but he couldn't speak German...must be an East Derry thing
thole - to put up with something
thran - stubborn
clipe - to tell on someone/someone who tells on others
clashbag - someone who tells on others to the teacher
doughal - a midden/shiteheap

My mam, a Dungiven woman, still talks about a burn being a stream.

I've heard thole said in Scotland so it must be an Ulster-Scots/Scots-Irish/Irish-Scots word. It is commonly used round our way in the Glens. As is thran. As a youngster I remember when I had a big thorn in my thumb which was getting infected my granny told me to put a "powltice" on a hot as I could thole.

[SidelineKick]

Pahal - a big clumsy eejit i think.

Liked gipe / gulpin there as well.

[heganboy]

surely its glipe?

[An Fear Rua]

houl your whistche- be quiet

[Tony Baloney]

Clabber - as in covered in clabber(muck).

[SidelineKick]

surely its glipe?

Nope, gipe used round our way!

[Billys Boots]

grape - a four-pronged pitchfork

It's a graip in Longford.

[Franko]

A couple of other derry specials (I think)

buck leppin - generally acting the eejit
**** hooks - describes someone as a **** only worse

[SidelineKick]

buck leppin - generally acting the eejit

brilliant! Haven't heard that in ages!