What are some vernacular phrases common in Ireland?

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deburca98

vernacular???? , ask me hole
ask me hole can be the answer to any question you couldn't be bothered answering.

You’re as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit……..
He thinks manual labour is a Spanish musician……….
As funny as a burning orphanage………
He's so camp, he shites tent pegs…………
I'm as sick as a plane to Lourdes……….
She had a face on her that would drive rats from a barn……..
Sweatin' like a pedophile in a Barney suit……….
I'd crawl a million miles across broken glass to kiss the exhaust of the van that took her dirty knickers to the laundry. ?????
A mickey the size of a double-value can of Right Guard……….
Jaysus, she could breastfeed a crèche…………
Mother Teresa wouldn’t kiss her………..
A sniper wouldn't take her out………..
Jaysus, ya wouldn't ride her into battle……..
If I'd a bag of bruised willies I wouldn't give her one………
She has a face on her like a bulldog that's just licked piss off a nettle…….
She wouldn't get a kick in a stampede………
If I'd a garden full of Mickey’s I wouldn't let her look over the wall…….

Priscilla Duck

Would you look at the cut of yer wan with the kicked in head on her = Oh my, look at that lady. She is quite unattractive.

I'm as sick as a small hospital = I may have had too much to drink last night

You're such a minger/scanger = you disgust me

She ate the head off him = She told him off/scolded him (nothing to do with oral sex)

ask me bollix/ I will in me hole = No
(a refusal to do something ie 'Will you finish that report before you go?' 'Ask me bollix / I will in me hole'.)

He broke his shyte laughin' = He found it very amusing

How's she cuttin'/ How's it hangin'/How's the form? = How are you?

The grandest / tearing away like a knackers shirt / flying it = I'm quite well, thank you.

She's bet down with a shovel - she's very unattractive

He'd get up on a stiff breeze = he's quite promiscuous

He's great gas = he is very funny

I'm only coddin'/messin' = I'm just kidding

He's as thick as a double ditch/not the sharpest tool in the shed/a few cans short of a six-pack = He's rather unintelligent/a bit simple

He's a total head-the-ball = He's a bit crazy
He's not the full shilling = he's mentally challenged
He's a pure mentaller = He is completely insane

Orla C

'Mad as a bag of cats' - a comment on someone's general sanity
'Cross as a bag of weasels' - a comment on someone's mood
'like a cut cat' - frequently used to describe someone suffering from severe PSM
'He had no mass on him' - a literal translation from Irish meaning he had no respect for him (meas ar einne)
'Pissed' means drunk, not angry.
Other words that mean drunk are stocious, palletic, bladdered, barrelled, pickled, off your tree.
'Young one' means 'girl' in the south-east of the country.
'Young fella' means 'boy' in the same area.
'Come here, I want to tell ya a question' is commonly heard in Limerick.
Calling someone a bastard is more a reflection on why type of person you think they are, and has nothing to do with their parentage.
Calling someone a ***** is, believe it or not, a term of affection, only don't do it unless you know someone VERY well!
'Feck off' is often used instead of that other Anglo-Saxonism.
We say 'There'll be great craic at that party', and for us, 'craic' means innocent fun, and has nothing to do with cocaine or any other narcotic. However, I said that sentence one day in New York, and had all kinds of weird people all wanting to be my friend and go with me to the party ....

And when you say 'I wouldn't mind getting the leg over', you mean you would like to have sex with that person.

And one to describe when you're hungry: 'I could eat a scabby child through the bars of a cage.'

Soul Jacker

The biggest one is grand as in 'Oh that's grand' meaning OK, not to bad, etc.

Feck and shite which I don't really need to explain.

Gobshite, as in 'ya gobshite' someone who speaks (gob =mouth) rubbish (shite)

Brutal, something that's terrible.

'There you go,' said when giving someone something

Go to this site http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_nobnation.xml
and have a listen to anything labelled 'Linguaphone' and it give you a few more colloquialisms.

Monaghan Lingo
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=dzbJrnoghIo

Waterford
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=1_gp72Z__Gs

kipstofer

'Langers' - drunk
'You couldn't beat it with a stick' - can't get better than that

"I could eat a horses a r s e through a hole ion the hedge" - I'm really hungry

There are loads for drunk-

pissed
twisted
hammered
mashed
scuttered...

"a bit god help us" - someone who is slow

"sufferin with his/her nerves" - someone with any type of mental illness

"a bit you know yourself" - that can mean so many thing like the person is weird or crazy or stupid or perverted or just reffering to anyone you dont like

"face like a well-slapped a r s e" - ugly

"face like a melted Dunnes bag" - ugly

Podge and Rodge Tribute Band

Take your mickey out of your hole!

In Ballydung we say it to contortionists who get very lonely of a winter's night.....

Due baby no.3 on the 4th of June

I wouldn't ride her into battle/ I wouldn't ride her if she had pedals (that woman is quite ugly)

I'm sweatin like a whore in church ( Its very hot in here)

As rough as a badgers tadger (common folk)

she has a face like a melted welly!! (very ugly woman!)

a fine set of delft (nice teeth)

david d

"She has a face like a bulldog licking p**s off a nettle" - I don't find her attractive

cavaliergirl

Buck eejit - idiot
Thick as champ - stupid
Head's crawling - someone with lice
hammered - drunk
2 sandwiches short of a picnic - someone who is a bit slow

benny

'she's got a tongue that would clip a hedge'

'knee high to a sod of turf'

' it'll be alright in the morning'

' i wouldn't start from here'

' thats what she said last night'

' that fella's thick'

'she's a set of teeth on her like a bag of chisel's'

'her teeth are that bad she could eat an apple through a letter box'

janus

See that Fella over there ,He is a Real Go by the Wall and Tiddle the Bricks, Meaning a Real Sneaky Person someone who tells Tales about you.

He is a Real Slieveen, Pronounced Sleeveen, Meaning a Sneaky Person.

She's had Her Chips, Meaning She has been to Bed with Someone.

He has had his Bag of Coal or He has got his Hole, meaning He has had Sex with someone.

She is up the Pole, meaning she is Pregnant, or She is in the Pudding Club.

She or He has a Face on them like a Knife that cuts through Butter,meaning that they have a Bony Skinny Face.

mark h

you wouldnt kick her outa the bed for eating hobnobs (she's hot)

TwoBigOneGrowing

http://members.aol.com/KateRourke/slang.html if this does not give you enough Irish expressions then try
http://www.slang.ie/index.php

Thats enough Oirish even for the Irish

uscrodeu

"That'll Do" like the farmer says in Babe, "That'll Do Pig"

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