The Culchie Dictionary
The culchie dictionary. It is believed this was originated in the south of Ireland ( Particularly Cork and Limerick ). The following is a list of words and phrases that can oft be heard in culchiedom ; It has been observed by the authors that County Kerry is not part of Culchiedom.
A fierce pile of bog : A sizable quantity of bog G'wan ta fuck autt a dat : Please go away A Thundering fuck : An unreliable person Well : Hello ( prominent in Waterford ) A shlap in the face of a brick : To be struck
square in the face with a brick A soft day: Miserable fucking weather Givvus a Blah : Please give me a bread roll Hardy man : Someone who can survive waking up buck naked in filthy ditch water on January the first after a year long drinking session Machine: General purpose term used to refer to any man made implement more advanced than a pitch fork Hang sangwige: Salty ham surrounded by two slices stale bread. A buffer of cheap margarine,preferably Blue-Band ( half inch thick ) must separate the ham from the bread. A top class hang sangwige will of course contain a sprinkling of sand. A paka ha tayho: A bag of crisps. Finches, ave'u the: Have you the Finches orange soda.
A Scalping with an Ash Plant: The direct translation of this has been lost to the winds of the Kingdom (
of Kerry that is ) but a rough approximation is : to be suddenly introduced in a violent fashion to a large stick Usually being wielded by a native farmer Who by the looks of him has missed a few steps on the evolutionary ladder.
Girleen: Any girl an older gentlemen would like to get his leg over.
Boyeen: see above Boreen: A pile of rocks that denote the path a culchie takes from the road to the farmhouse. Land Rover: usually a ford escort van that has seen better days. Mighty: indicative of something being very good. Craic: fun, as in Mighty Craic] or The Craic was Mighty] Grand altogether: same boring state of affairs. Locked: very drunk. After a few shcoops : reasonably drunk. Flahed: a state of extreme exhaution, usually brought on by consecutive locked nights. Fien: man whose name is unknown, or unremembered at the present time. Fine piece of shtuff: used to describe a person considered attractive. Bollox: multiple uses, generally derogatory Cunt of a ting: Something very difficult to do
or use. Jaysus: An expression of surprise. Be Jaysus: An expression of shear surprise. Beta hokey: A pretend expression of surprise or
can mean that the person hasn't a clue what you are talking about. Fukdat: An expression of mild displeasure Yoke: Just about anything whose proper description doesn't spring to mind Fierce: It is, yes. Eeegit: Somebody less intelligent than oneself. i.e. a complete fool altogether. A cute Hoor: Somebody more intelligent than oneself. i.e. not a complete fool altogether. In some situations this may refer to a person's ability to weasal out of buying their round of drinks, part-icularlary in Co Cork, as in "Ye Cute Cork Hoor".
A tight Kunt: Similar to "A cute Hoor" and again has very little to do with the fairer sex
except in perhaps her inability to fork out for her share of the booze.
Gobsheite: Someone very high in the "Eeegit" stakes but will generally be a tourist or
perhaps from Dublin. Yoka-me-bob: Any form of motorised transport
can also reference any piece of technology or hardware. An onmercifull fe-ad : A very large Sunday dinner partaken after several pints of Guinness
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