Fermanagh Speak!!
100 = Perfect - reply to "How are you?"
A great feed = A hearty and enjoyable meal, normally at a reasonable price.
A wee want = Lacking in everyday social skills, not the most accademic.
As happy as a mouse in a mail sack = An expression of contentment.
As the man says = In other words.
Bleather = General discourse or chat.
Blindy = A person with poor eyesight.
Boys a dear = A sign of exasperation.
Broze = Inconvenience or unhandiness
Brutal = Harsh beyond belief.
Buck daft = A moment of madness
Butther = Butter.
Chep = An audible sound.
Childer = Offspring
Clatty = Disorderly or untidy.
Claw = See hoke.
Codding = Joking.
Coddy = A youngster or adolesant.
Come here = Please listen to what I'm about to say
Come you here = Please come a little closer
Courtin' = Dating someone
Cub = Male. The son of
Culchie = Someone not from the town.
Cuttie = Female. The daughter of
Fierce = Mighty.
Filum = Motion picture.
Flure = The Floor.
Foosie = S
Foundered = Cold. Perhaps at risk from hyperthermia.
Full as a tick = A phrase most commonly used after " big feed"
Full of the blade = Response to "hows' she cuttin' "
Get it handy = A job or task which can be executed with ease.
Give her dixie = To push something (normally a car) to its limit.
Good man yourself = Thank you very much.
Hallion = A naughty of mischevous teenager.
Handlin = Complicated.
Happy days = An indication of contentment.
Hashing = Talking, sometimes annoyingly so, and with very little interest
to the receipiant.
Hate = Heat
Have you the spuds in? = Have you eaten yet.
Hoke = To rearrange or create a space for something.
Hows' she cuttin' ? = How are you doing ?
I 'clare to goodness = I am somewhat surprised.
I havn't a baldy = An incomprehensible situation
Kip = A filthy place. Untidy perhaps resembling the contents of a skip.
Lieing up like a brute = To lounge around
Lock = Any number above one.
Mighty = See Fierce.
Mizzle = Something in-between rain and drizzle.
More power to your elbow = Well done.
Not a hep = A small amount.
Not a pile = Uneventful.
Pishing = Precipitation.
Powerful = See mighty or feirce
Quar = Automobile
Quit = Please stop.
Rare tare = An uncommon event
Red out = To clean out.
Rightly = In agreement
Santy = Father Christmas
Says I = I said.
Scarse = Unbelievable.
Sefetee = Safety.
Sham = An acknowledgement used in conjunction with a hand motion similar to
that of a "high five"
She = See yoke.
Skay = A provincial Fermanagh town.
Skitter = A young child. Can be a term for loose bowels.
Suckers = Wild or domesticated animals killed for pork or ham.
Take it handy = To wish good luck.
Talk t ya = Goodbye for now.
Tay = A cup of tea or your evening meal.
Terra = A situation which was found to be intolerable
The shaft = Belfast.
The very best = General response to a well-being enquiry.
Tip away at = To carry on with.
Up the country = Any where north or east of Fermanagh.
Wake (weak) as a kitten = To feel fatigued.
Whisht = Please be Quiet.
Ye buck = You rascal
Yoke = A term to describe any object.
You could trot a mouse on it = An indication that ones cup of tea/coffee is
strong