A short Dictionarie of the Language of Irelande, as spoken by Her People. Volume I.
- That’s grand!
- That’s great!
- Brilliant!
- Great!
- Is that all right?
- Okay?
- How are ya gettin’ on?
- How are ya doin’?
- rubbish
- refuse, junk food, or something not real (depending on the context)
- Eoin
- Owen
- Eoghan
- See Eoin
December 7th, 2009 at 1:00 am
You should probably know that pants means underwear (say trousers to refer to what you wear on your legs) and bin always refers to a trash can. I was very entertained by my Irish friend Kay’s discussions of “wheelie bins”–by which she meant household dumpsters like you put out the trash in.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Speaking of dumpsters, they call them “skips” here!
December 7th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
“Your man” apparently can refer to any person (presumably male) associated with you. As when I was traveling there in 2003: “So what do you think of your man Bush?”
And don’t go around saying “fanny”, over there it’s a less harmless term for a less innocuous body part.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
skips are bigger–like the dumpster outside an institution. A bin can be the trash can in a room or any size of trash can, really–wheelie bin is like what we have in Ann Arbor to put out on trash collection day. But a bin is never not a trash can. Bin can also be a verb–”you can bin that” means you can throw it away.