Best Irish turn of phrase (1 Viewer)

[snakybus]

Guys I went to school with used to just use the word "Mastitis" as an expletive.

A fella would go by in a tractor, toot some smoke out the top exhaust, and everyone would shout "Mastitis!"

Culchies are a bit mental, with the boredom and all I guess.

 

[therealjohnny]

As far as I know you get gout as a result of deposits of uric acid in your extremities, usually as a result of a rich diet and lots of brandy, red wine and other tannin-rich beverages. I think. So basically yeah, yer foot is full of piss, and possibly vinegar.

Putting "een" at the end of things.

"I was in the tractoreen, I turned onto the roadeen and who was there but Pateen and Gerreen"

ew..disgust-een

 

[Thayl]

Shank's mare.

 

[RayRay]

A bit crude but "Get them off ye"

 

[snakybus]

Tuam slang in general

"Gomey" being a favourite

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Fuck off.

As in "You'd want to see the spread. Fuck-off steaks, rakes of spuds and a fuck-off thing of wine on the table that they kept filling"

 

[washingcattle]

Shite craic.

Lock in.

whoo'er

as in 'he was an absolute whoo'er for the pints, that lad'

 

[dqk]

"I was in the tractoreen, I turned onto the roadeen and who was there but Pateen and Gerreen"[/quote]

My dad once called some pebbles "shtoneens"

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Deadly ambulance crash caught on video

A video of the ambulance crash that killed a 58-year-old woman in Milford shows a Mercedes running a stop sign and clipping the ambulance.

 

[pete]

good man yourself

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It's juvenile but I can't help it.

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Everyone's got something, right?

 

[washingcattle]

Codding codology etc.

Savage as an adjective.

i.e "Savage arse"

 

[CinnamonBoy]

*patronising/sarcastic tone*: aren't ye great

 

[Jim Daniels]

It's lashin' out

 

[pete]

holy divine mother of lamp lighting jaysus

 

[pete]

they should be taken out and shot with balls of their own shite

 

[pete]

he had a face made for digging

 

[dqk]

Christ almighty tonight

 

[ann post]

FYI - Lurker journalists who turn this thread into a buzzfeed or 10 ten journal.ie article, i want royalties.

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[Scientician 0.8]

I'd eat a yard of her shite just to wank in her shadow.

Why do you like riding hippos?

ya handicap

ya christy

ya spa

gunch

stirk

dander

whale oil beef hooked

thanks a mill!

Listen, thanks!

Ah stop!

Listen, go on.