Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Deadly

Commonly used in everyday Dublin slang, ‘Deadly’ is Irish slang for ‘Good/great’.

For example, ‘The internet would be deadly if it wasn’t for those feckin' ads!’.

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BLACK FLY. The greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e. the parson who takes tithe of the harvest.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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CAUDGE-PAWED. Left-handed.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Eejit

One of the more famous Irish insults, an ‘Eejit’ is someone that’s foolish or someone that has done something foolish.

For example, ‘Yer man is some eejit – he stuck a load of petrol into the car and sure hasn’t it got a diesel engine!’.

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CIRCUMBENDIBUS. A roundabout way, or story. He took such a circumbendibus; he took such a circuit.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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FLASH MAN. A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Gobshite

Few Irish words have achieved widespread fondness like ‘Gobshite’, a bit of slang generally used to describe someone foolish.

For example, ‘I don’t believe it – that gobshite has put bleach on the carpet instead of water’.

But it seems this word was used in the USA first:

https://www.newstalk.com/news/susie-dent-gobshite-popularised-irish-used-us-first-1090791

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MAWKES. A vulgar slattern.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE. They cursed him with bell, book, and candle; an allusion to the popish form of excommunicating and anathematizing persons who had offended the church.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Culchie

A ‘Culchie’ is someone that’s from rural Ireland. It’s thought that this word comes from the Irish for ‘Back of the house’, which is ‘Cúl an tí’.

It was a popular custom in rural Ireland to enter a house via the back door, rather than the front, to avoid dragging dirt in through the more formal entrance.

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