Hello everybody,
and welcome to another episode of
"how to speak in a Dublin accent"
with me Mrs Gibney.
Now, today I''m going to talk
about all the different kinds of names
we call each other here in Dublin
and in Ireland in general,
so I''m going to start off with a nice easy one
and the first word is EEJIT,
EEJIT.
Now that means "idiot"
but we just shorten it.
You know, you have that word in most of your countries -
"idiot" it's a dopey person.
It's a person who does stupid things,
a person who doesn't have a lot going on upstairs you know,
you know them type of people,
a few sandwiches short of a picnic,
a few rashers short of a fry.
You know them types.
So that's what we call an EEJIT,
someone that does something stupid.
That's it, so then I'm going to move on
to a more derogatory word
and the word is POXY,
POXY, alright
P-O-X-Y, POXY.
Now that word can be used to describe a person
or em, an object, or a feeling,
so for example em,
you would use variations on the word.
Now as you've probably figured out
POXY comes from the pox
which of course is disease ridden
and things like you know,
smallpox or whatever.
Think of those types of diseases
that was in medieval times and all that.
Think about the feeling that surrounds that.
That's POXY right.
So if you're discussing a particular individual for example
and you don't like them
you might say "he's a POX-BOTTLE he is".
"He's a POX-BOTTLE."
That's the type of way you'd use that word
if you're talking about a person.
Now, if somebody said
"What's it like outside?"
as in "What is the weather like?"
and if it's raining, if it's lashing out of the heavens,
you might say "it's POXY",
"it's poxy I'm not going out there",
it's POXY, all right.
So then also, you would use it in everyday life,
say for example, if you're trying to open a jar of jam
or something like that right,
and you can't get the jar open,
you might be trying to get it open and you say
"I can't get this poxy jar open" you know.
So that's the word POXY,
and there's lots of ways to use that, you know.
So then, moving on to YOKE, YOKE.
We use the word YOKE in many variations.
Now you might know a yolk as in the yolk of an egg,
you know the little yellow part in the egg in the middle,
the yellow bit that is the yolk,
and em, we kind of think that anything could be a YOKE, you know.
You might say to somebody:
"here, pass, pass us over that yoke".
That means pass that "thing" over to me,
because you can't think of the word of what it is.
You might be asking somebody
"give me the screwdriver"
but you can't think of the word screwdriver so you say
"give me the yoke",
THE YOKE, all right.
Now you'd also use it with people,
and if you're talking about a person
and they're a bit crazy you might say
"he's a MAD YOKE".
He's a MAD YOKE,
so you know what mad is,
a bit LOOLA, a bit MENTAL,
so you just put the two words together MAD YOKE.
He's a MAD YOKE, all right.
Then of course we use,
uh the word BALL quite a bit.
You might call somebody a HEAD THE BALL.
You just kind of call anybody a HEAD THE BALL really:
"Where is your friend?"
"Where's HEAD THE BALL?".
So you use it any way you like really:
HEAD THE BALL.
Now you might also say,
if somebody did something wrong,
if they didn't do a good job at something,
you might say
"He made a BALLS OF THAT"
"He made a BALLS of that"
the plural for ball: BALLS all right.
And that kind of means, you know,
"he made the HAMES of it"
"He didn't do a good job" alright.
So that's all I think I have around the BALL.
Em, now moving on, em SHITE, right eh, GOBSHITE .
GOB. This is your GOB.
Very GOBBY.
A person who's very MOUTHY.
They're very GOBBY.
If they're a GOBSHITE they're stupid,
STUPID, very dopey.
GOB-SHITE.
Now SHITE
is the equivalent of SHIT:
S-H-I-T.
We say SHITE.
So imagine shit coming out of your mouth.
Stupid people do that.
So that is a GOBSHITE.
Somebody that says or does stupid things, all right.
Also SHITEBAG, em somebody you just don't like.
They're not a nice person.
Now also we have the word WAGON.
WAGON.
Now that's the kind of word you'd use for a woman,
who you don't really like, em,
and sometimes you use it for somebody,
who is being a little bit BOLD,
a little bit naughty you know.
If you, you might say it to a little child:
"You're a little wagon you are"
if for example they rubbed a load of chocolate over your curtains,
you know if they're about two
and they don't understand,
and you're trying to tell them
"Don't be rubbing chocolate on the curtains, you little wagon you"
so you wouldn't always be so rough,
but then again
if you're talking about your next-door neighbour
and you don't like her she's an OUL WAGON
an OUL WAGON:
O-U-L which means OLD, WAGON, all right.
Then em, what other, WHO-OR, that's another word you'd use for a woman:
WHO-OR.
Now in most accents they'd probably use the word WHORE,
WHORE
W-H-O-R-E
like a woman of disrepute, from whorehouse,
but we'd say WHO-OR,
it's a lot easier to say.
I think, there's a lot more emphasis in the two syllables
WHO-OR, WHOOR, alright.
So let me think now, is there any more.
I can't think of any more to be honest with you,
so if I think of any more
I'll tell you in the next lesson so,
I hope that was helpful to you and
I, I, I'll talk to you all later.
God bless, see you later now.