[Fwd: Fw: culchie phrases]

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

Had to pass this along.  OK, it's not American - but some are irresistible.
Rima

>
>Now here are some I bet none of you have heard of...from my friend James in
>Dublin.
>
>James wrote:
>
>> > 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
>> >
>> > A shlap in the face of a brick : To be struck square in the face with a
>> > brick
>> >
>> > A soft day : Miserable fucking weather
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > After a few shcoops : reasonably drunk.
>> >
>> > Flahed : a state of extreme exhaution, usually brought on by
>> > consecutive locked nights.
>> >
>> > Fine piece of shtuff : used to describe a person considered attractive.
>> >
>> > Bollox : multiple uses, generally derogatory
>> >
>> > Kunt of a ting : Something very difficult to do or use.
>> >
>> > Jaysus : An expression of surprise.
>> >
>> > Be Jaysus : An expression of sheer surprise.
>> >
>> > Beda 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.
>> >
>> > Eeejit : 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.
>> >
>> > Gobshite : Someone very high in the "Eeegit" stakes but will generally
>> > be a tourist or perhaps from Dublin.
>> >
>> > An onmercifull fee-ad : A very large Sunday dinner partaken after
>> > several pints of Guinness
>> >
>> >
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