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If i've spent a lot of time in Ireland it's very 'Fermanaghish' for want of a better word.
Examples below;
Cyat/Cyar etc – cat/car: ‘feed that cyat wud ye!’
Paturl – ‘put some paturl in that cyar’
Aeeigh (said while breathing in) – Usually said to affirm a statement or simply to break an awkward silence
Next nor near it – close to something: ‘I couldn’t get parked next nor near it’
Red up – Tidy up
Kyip – A messy place: ‘Red up that kyip!’
Stall the bailer – stop
Bail on – keep going (both these phrases are used most frequently when teaching someone to drive in Fermanagh)
Through other – Disorganised
Tara – Terribly: ‘Those boys are tara through other’. It can also strangely be used to describe dislike for something: ‘That bacon’s not tara’
Curtin' - going out/dating
Stepping out together – see curtin'
Graze a stipe – Type of bird used to describe marshy or bad farmland: ‘Sure ye cudn’t graze a stipe there!’
Docket – Any type of paperwork whether it be a receipt for a cow or a cinema ticket
Han – Hand
Fut – Foot
Me – My: ‘A hurt me fut takin that cyat to Tempo’
Santee – Santa Clause
Put her broadside – making a car skid sideways
That be’s good – Gibberish grammar used to describe an enjoyable event in the past tense
The mara – Tomorrow
Soople – Flexible/Fit
Not a hate – nothing, usually used in response to the question ‘any money on ye?’
Bate that inta ye – Eat up
Lep – jump
Lept – jumped: ‘I lept into that shuck’
State a ye/ Some state – Messy or emaciated appearance: ‘you’re in some state now’
Ice crame – Ice cream
Mineral – any fizzy drink
Howl that – Hold that
Uvan – Oven
Mur – Mirror
Luk – Look: ‘Luk in the mur to see the state a ye’
Cubs/Cutties - boys/girls
Hows she cuttin? - How's it goin?
Full a the blade! - the inevitable answer
Quern - Very: 'its quern hot boy'
While hanlin - A difficult situation
Snat azy - its not easy (usually when complaining about work)
Yonder - over there
Fierce - good in the extreme
Hardy weather - freezing outside
Hoke - look for something
Mighty - see fierce
Not a pile - not doing anything: 'up to much the night?' 'ah, not a pile'
Well - simultaneously says hello and how are you
Parful - see fierce
Quare - very
Quit - stop
Rare bein - a strange individual
Rightly - see well
Skitter - annoying child
Deadly feed - a large meal
Brutal - harsh
Butther - butter
Cawdin - messing about
Clatty - clumsy
Hunk - catching yourself on something: 'Oh, i'm hunk'
Childer - offspring
C'Mere - come here I would like to tell you something
Filum - film
Foundered - very cold
Good man yerself - thank you very much
Hallion - a disruptive teenager, i.e Get away ye hallion ya!
Above was lifted from a page i found, but it is all dead on lol
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If i've spent a lot of time in Ireland it's very 'Fermanaghish' for want of a better word.
Examples below;
Cyat/Cyar etc – cat/car: ‘feed that cyat wud ye!’
Paturl – ‘put some paturl in that cyar’
Aeeigh (said while breathing in) – Usually said to affirm a statement or simply to break an awkward silence
Next nor near it – close to something: ‘I couldn’t get parked next nor near it’
Red up – Tidy up
Kyip – A messy place: ‘Red up that kyip!’
Stall the bailer – stop
Bail on – keep going (both these phrases are used most frequently when teaching someone to drive in Fermanagh)
Through other – Disorganised
Tara – Terribly: ‘Those boys are tara through other’. It can also strangely be used to describe dislike for something: ‘That bacon’s not tara’
Curtin' - going out/dating
Stepping out together – see curtin'
Graze a stipe – Type of bird used to describe marshy or bad farmland: ‘Sure ye cudn’t graze a stipe there!’
Docket – Any type of paperwork whether it be a receipt for a cow or a cinema ticket
Han – Hand
Fut – Foot
Me – My: ‘A hurt me fut takin that cyat to Tempo’
Santee – Santa Clause
Put her broadside – making a car skid sideways
That be’s good – Gibberish grammar used to describe an enjoyable event in the past tense
The mara – Tomorrow
Soople – Flexible/Fit
Not a hate – nothing, usually used in response to the question ‘any money on ye?’
Bate that inta ye – Eat up
Lep – jump
Lept – jumped: ‘I lept into that shuck’
State a ye/ Some state – Messy or emaciated appearance: ‘you’re in some state now’
Ice crame – Ice cream
Mineral – any fizzy drink
Howl that – Hold that
Uvan – Oven
Mur – Mirror
Luk – Look: ‘Luk in the mur to see the state a ye’
Cubs/Cutties - boys/girls
Hows she cuttin? - How's it goin?
Full a the blade! - the inevitable answer
Quern - Very: 'its quern hot boy'
While hanlin - A difficult situation
Snat azy - its not easy (usually when complaining about work)
Yonder - over there
Fierce - good in the extreme
Hardy weather - freezing outside
Hoke - look for something
Mighty - see fierce
Not a pile - not doing anything: 'up to much the night?' 'ah, not a pile'
Well - simultaneously says hello and how are you
Parful - see fierce
Quare - very
Quit - stop
Rare bein - a strange individual
Rightly - see well
Skitter - annoying child
Deadly feed - a large meal
Brutal - harsh
Butther - butter
Cawdin - messing about
Clatty - clumsy
Hunk - catching yourself on something: 'Oh, i'm hunk'
Childer - offspring
C'Mere - come here I would like to tell you something
Filum - film
Foundered - very cold
Good man yerself - thank you very much
Hallion - a disruptive teenager, i.e Get away ye hallion ya!
Above was lifted from a page i found, but it is all dead on lol
Post away!
Last edited by FatherTed (2009-03-01 18:56:41)
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