Irish English.
 

I just found a very interestinglist of words/phrases that many people use in Ireland, their meanings and why we use them. Fascinating!

From this wikipedia article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English#Lexicon

Dead on :thumbs:

Fecking
good word ,
a sneak Swear word.




Life In The City.

arista ya fecking eejit!

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Dont Argue :)

Iceman
DeadOn Da Feen.





Life In The Fast Lane.

We Ain't
Hon.

Lol. I didnt even know most of them were Irish or even slang!

neither did i.. funny though

its great being irish
were expected to be drunk

Did anybody learn a new word ? :D

Nope already knew everyone of them words!:hugesmile:

A few Jessica, but some of the meanings didn't add up either to how they are used today!

Like what?

a pound special

I use banjacked so much! And everyone is like 'What the hell does that mean?' I day FECK all the time! And grand obviously. I never knew bold was a Irish thing. Lol,I'm only at the top of the list *keeps reading*

Class and craic,yes. I say uni a lot because if I say college on here,everyone just get all confused with me.

Deadly's Irish????? Never knew that.
Fair play is Irish?
You guys don't say footpath????
Gas,yes. Give out,everyone uses!Gobshite,yes haha.
Grinds,yes! I told someone online I was getting grinds and they thought I was being dirty!
Grandddd,it's our fine!
Handy,yes.
Hot press is Irish?
Jar,yes lol!
LMAO at Jaysus
Kip,well everyone says that
Knacker! Yes,people think I'm saying tired when I say that online,it's our chav
Malarky,brilliant word!
Meet,soooo old,we say score now.
Pack of crisps,I didn't know that was us either,lol
Runners,yeah,the posh people told me to say trainers,lol!
Savage,yeah for parties!
Yoke,yeah

Lol,that was fun! Made me feel very Irish though.

In Limerick
people say meet.
We say tayto's for every crisps.
We say tackies instead of runners.

Where abouts in Ireland do you live?

Theres alot more of them in Belfast, I`ve never heard of 'Knacker' being the Irish Version of Chav, our version of chav in Belfast is called A 'Milly'
:joker:

I live in Wicklow but like Dublin Wicklow,lol. So really Dublin I suppose,I went to school there,go to uni there,all my friends live there.

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We say tayto's for every crisps.
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This lol!

And yes, Knacker is our chav.
Knackered is being tired tho.

In Derry they say Scally.
I found that weird.
:shocked:

Never heard of it

Ugh!

Its boring on here at 4 in the morning, where do you all go?

:P

I better Head on to bed or i`ll be ****ing wrecked like, im knackered now lol Know wha` I mean mate, lol :D See what I did there? I used Irish Talk to... ah never mind

Bye TiBB until a few hours :P


Oh how lucky is the OPoster to have me use this thread as my last post for today :D