Irish People Try To Explain Irish Phrases
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*uses irish slang to explain irish slang*
Megan W lol
conor McGregor doubt me now
Megan W Unless you're from Ireland or have knowledge on how people talk you'd get lost in this video lmao
Megan W pretty normal
wtf is BOZY?
Only Irish people will explain our Irish slang, using Irish slang to confuse other countries 😂😂
Amy Mythen except us Scottish 😜
Shari Taylor yeah ! I love the Scottish accent !!! 😜
Yes we do
I actually didn't learn that the word deadly meant something that could kill you until I was like 9 years old.
I would be watching a nature documentary and hear David Attenborough say "And now we see the deadly king cobra" and I'd be like "Yeah dave, that snake is awesome". I didn't learn until my auntie told me. I think I was in the garden playing a game or something. She came out and asked what we we doing and I said. "Playing a game, it's deadly" she laughed and said "What, is it dangerous? You going to die?" I just look at her and thought: What the hell are you talking about?
Brilliant Sebidee TW, just brilliant
Facts. Thanks buddy.
+Sebidee TW lol that is really funny
Because you can sing "Deadly deadly deadly-doo" how can such a thing means lethal :(
Haha great story
When I came to America I insulted my mother-in-law by telling her that her cooking was deadly.
Yeesh
I love using phrases like that around my friends who aren't Irish, they get so confused 😂😂
😂😂
"The human arse usually isn't associated with good things"
thats not what my uncle said
@@brandonsmith4533 your a bit late replying
@@low042 yeah
Aye but it was only a few minutes late
@@brandonsmith4533 your funni u.n.c.l.e ^^
I was born in Brazil but I grew up in Ireland so I feel like Ireland is my home 💚
i'm going to Ireland in May, so if I will hear "it's deadly" I won't be scared xD
No one says that here in Cork so it depends where you go
Deadly, Leathal, Gas are all contextually good things in Èire
@@itsoracle I’m from Cork and I say that.
its more of a dublin sort of thing
I am from the US, and my grandma used to say quare all the time. I didn't realize it was an Irish word. That is interesting.
You seem very excited huh?
SuperJoshgames I really am. All those years I just thought my grandma was a bit quare, but she was saying an actual word. :)
finnickfan ha ha good one
I'm American and this is the first time I've heard of the word quare. But all my life, I've heard the word queer used in the exact same context as quare. I'm guessing queer derives from quare or the other way around.
Shut up and listen to dat gobshite trump
I've wanted to go to Ireland for so long. Such beautiful people, amazing scenery, and their accents are to die for. 💚💛🍀
Thanks
Thank you for saying that my people are awesome.
Thanks for saying that. We actually dont get that often. But yeah the Wicklow Mountains are amazing just incase you ever come to Ireland🍀🍀
Yeah! and why don't you come down to Cork sometime. The sea is just as gorgeous as Waterford's, Everywhere is beautiful in Ireland. And don't forget about the giants causeway.
Natasha Ankrom rock of cashel and cahir castle in tipp only ten mins away from each other
I want the guy who is smoking to give me a tour of Ireland. I bet that dude knows all kinds of people and places.
i read: he came to our tent and raped for five minutes xd
Yelle Reychler 😂😂😂😂
gayyyy
Dictionary def: This man is known only as An Spailpín Fánach (irish) or Manus, A mythological creature who wanders in the land in search of social interactions , asking for nothing more than cigarettes and half drank cans of Karpackie (lager) in exchange for one of his legendary tales or a verse of song , it is said that if you stumble across his path it is a sign of good fortune however you may not return home for days on end sniffing lines off a phone and talkin shite to anyone who will listen
ah hes a posh kid
Too cute. Reignites my desire to visit Ireland. I am in love with the accents.
Gosh yes! Just...delicious. I love it. Hahaha.
Ashia Bridges Same. These folks seem nice too!
dumkopf absolutely. Like you'd have a lot of fun.
Ashia Bridges Agreed! I wish I could travel more! :)
Ashia Bridges we're deadly ;)
Scotland uses some of these too but not as often. We usually say tits up rather than arseways.
Bros
I discovered the Scots use grand in the same way as in Ireland and just as much.
Why don't you explain to all the none Irish people why we say bye for 5mins on the phone
Ookevin fitz cause they dont want to talk
Ookevin fitz ye. ur right. bye. b-b-b-b-b-bye.
Ookevin fitz I was never sure if that was all Irish or just my father and his family. It's quite infectious, I've began spreading it to my fellow Englishman.
well y you do? i want to know ._.
Ookevin fitz haha
I really want to visit Ireland even more now.
Honestly I could listen to Irish people talk all day! There accent is amazing aha :3
I like the 'arseways' one XD
We're quite partial to that one too Jaclyn... 'Tis said a lot in the office here :)
Facts. What about Ye Cheeky fecker ( Come to wicklow to hear it )
Jaclyn Lizzi Same as b'ass 'ackwards!
Arseways ? I prefer the term Titts up
I'm loving this video. Must go to Ireland asap. Cuties galore! Plus all that beautiful scenery.
Shawnie Ellis I'll show you around for the craic if you like =D
Oh Shawnie, we fear you'll be sorely disappointed if you ever visit! But we applaud your enthusiasm! ;-) Keep it comin'
Facts. Hahaha, you guys always make my day. And I believe the craic is strong in you guys! I have faith!
Smithy booking flight now! Hahaha 😛😜
Shawnie Ellis HA! You said it. I feel the same way. =P
I love being Irish 😂❤️ I'm from Belfast and our phrases are bad 😂
I didn't know half of these were Irish phrases until after moving to the US when I was 16, I just assumed they were standard universally used English phrases. I now understand what "separated by a common language" truly means.
I'm Scottish and I've still heard and used a couple of these expressions without even knowing they're Irish!
Deadly is very international
Love learning new stuff!
So glad I found this channel! I'm planning on doing work and travel in Ireland right now, but was quite afraid of the irish accent, but your videos are really good and entertaining to prepare myself for the journey :D
Han “garnichtmalsoanonym” nah we're delighted we can help! Please don't be afraid of our accent, we come in peace :)
Wow, it's not raining in this video.
Yeah it was the one day of the year, they caught everybody on their way to the beach
The rare occasion in Ireland where it's not raining
Does it rain there a lot? Because that's only making me want to visit Ireland even more.
Eryk Nowak it's not always raining lol
Nitokris Ghoul yes it rains a lot. A fucking shite ton.
"May as well be a Patrick..." I am DYING.
If Americans sat in a Irish pub & listened to myself & few the lads talking they would honestly think we are speaking a different language! We have too many substitutes for actual words it's ridiculous haha ... My personal favourite is if you're dying after a night on the sauce is "Oh Jasus (Jesus) , come down off the cross & leave me up!"
We also use donkeys in Scotland except we don't really say years.
I've always thought of it as the equivalent for "I've known you for ages, I've been running for ages"
"I've known you for donkeys, I've been running for donkeys"
***** Unfortunately I'm only 22 so I never watched him lol
You can tell when two dublin lads have been pals for a while. Their "aaeh"s harmonise; truly beautiful. 1:33
The Irish are a delightful bunch and I would love to visit them
1:50 A black guy with an Irish accent. I've officially seen it all now :)
All welcome here lad
Bro, theyre not a fuckin shiny pokemon
When I went to visit my Irish Grandad in County Kildare in the ninety's, the young lady from next door popped in and said "well, do you have any strange". After a while as she could see a confused look on my face, then she said " I mean do you have any gossip", then I understood.
I'm from Kildare, and people still say that! Usually, "Howya, any strange?". Or "Antin strange an unusual?" (antin being Kildare pronunciation of anything, we're not known for cut glass elocution!)
In Spain we say "de muerte" (deadly) when something is great or awesome too :D
same in France, we can say "mortel".
It's kinda cool to see that other countries use the same expressions in their own way :)
Even in German, the prefix "Mords-" can be used to exaggerate something in a good or bad way. "Mord" means "murder".
Well puerto rico sure fucked up spanish
In California we say "sick" or "gnarly," and I've heard people from Texas say "dirty."
carmelilla92 we used "wicked" to mean awesome
these meals are typically Irish but a little old fashioned my grandparents would've eaten all of these meals (except haggis that's scottish) we have black and white pudding instead ,corned beef and cabbage is one of my dads favourite dinners with chef brown sauce :D colcannon was generally only made around halloween time the used to put 50p in it as a prize :) and its made with cabbage ,potatoes and onion and REAL butter.ive only seen crubeens eaten around the south Waterford region ,Tripe ,stew,and goody were old traditional irish dishes too,my grandad used to have goody it was warm milk/tea with sugar and bread in it and he also ate sugar sandwiches ! our breads were soda based with no sugar but salt added thats the biggest mistake with soda bread it doesnt have sugar in it but so much soda your teeth would squeak when you ate it .Rabbit was very popular also and pheasant, oh and liver and onions !but people dont hunt the way they used to here nowadays
'Donkeys Years' is used by my Mum, and we're Australians. 'Youse' is another Irish Phrase I believe, it's a strange way of referring to more than one person.
Wait is that not actually a word. Seriously for real, I always say that.
I think it's from "donkey's ears" because they're so long.
And 'ye' is like a collective you I know because I myself am from Ireland
+GemGems3
'Youse' is also used in Liverpool area a lot.
Ive never heard of "Youse"
I'm from Newfoundland, Canada and I'm currently on these "Irish People __" videos (which are awesome btw) and it's AMAZING how similar Ireland is to Newfoundland xD
A lot of people from Newfoundland have Wexford accents couldn’t believe it when I seen a video. They never loss it and they could be 4 or 5 generation Newfoundlander
I didn't even realise these phrases were Irish...I live in Australia, but my ancestors are all 100% Irish on both sides of my family. I guess that's why growing up and going to Catholic school with other Irish descendents these phrases were familiar. The only one I hadn't heard was 'Jacks', as usually I've heard it being referred to as 'the John' instead.
I'm in stitches!!!from laughter
Is english the most spoken language in Ireland?
Yeah English us the more prominent language in Ireland the only places they speak Irish mainly in Ireland is the gaeltach lands
Thank you
Zoe Ankrum English yeah but we all are thought how to speak Irish too even if its not used in regular speech like Rainbow said. There are enough Polish people though in Ireland to be considered as an official language of the country too.
It's the most spoken because after the Irish famine we Irish people migrated to America and England because it was tough living in Ireland so we started speaking English to get better chances of jobs and so on
Zoe Ankrum yes it's the first language although Irish is technically our national language, it's not really spoken everyday except for in gaeltacht areas
2:31 I’d say Irish people are the only ones to laugh at someone for speaking properly 😂😂
Ha, "properly"
these phrases make so much sense to me. i love ireland. i want to move there someday.
Cool to learn these
2:35 that laugh
Are normal laugh?
I really like arseways, Our American equivalent would be backasswards. I prefer arseways.
Deadly is like killer.
And funny how the Jacks is comparable to The John here.
+timmmahhhh My dad's name is Chuck, and my late great grandpa is John. They would tease each other constantly. Gramps would say "I need to CHUCK that out." Dad would say "Be right back I need to use the JOHN." =)
we americans also say "ass backwards" to mean something completely messed up or gone wrong
everyone I know says bass akwards
I agree, and quare is same in meaning as queer, they sound similar though I don't know if they are from the same origin XD
Assbackwards!😂😂😀
I like how there discussing there slang and then using their slang to describe
I'm Australian and although some of these aren't in common use, I've heard all of these terms used over here.
Jack is a nickname for John. That's how jacks came to be referred to as a toilet.
Not a nickname it's irish for john
+ManButt Weedington Sean is actually Irish for john
Wot
And Jack
+ThatGuyOnCZcams Yes you are right.
The black fella's name is Paddy by the way heheh I know him myself.
I could listen to Irish people talk for hours. They have the best accent.
I'm American (with a tiny bit of Irish ancestry from waaaaay on back). My 72 year old (non-Irish) gran uses a word similar to quare. Same meaning, but she pronounces it quar (rhymes with car). She usually uses it to refer to people with strange habits or fashion.
It's definitely an older generation thing, I think. If I were to use it, I might say something like, "My gran's habit of putting ketchup on scrambled eggs is quar."
I'm American,imagine telling one of my friends"I known you since donkeys years" ill die of loneliness lol
Meeseonposibble,...🧐
0:35 are they the
lads from moxie?
QUARE is "Yola" for 'very' or 'extremely'. Yola was a language mainly spoken in Wexford.
e.g. it's quare windy out!
'donkeys years' migrated to America at some point. It's mostly something older people say, but I've heard it over here.
So if an Irish say to me “I’ve got a deadly weapon ... “ do I react with a ‘wow’ or a ‘run’ 🤪😱
Both
Say nice one
i think both would be the preferable outcome
Depends if I had a gun it my langer in my hand
MOXIE! Shligo Style!!
Rup the Sligo boys!
I've never been to Ireland and all friends that I've had of Irish descent, were only half Irish, or grew up in the UK, so never used such slang.
So I am yet to enjoy trying this slang in Ireland.
I've listened to this on repeat..just for the accents because I'm obsessed holy shit
somebody's gonna say top of the morning to ya ladie and in a country accent Im going to be like good morning motherfuckaaaasss
Nobody ever says that here (except maybe to take the piss out of US tourists!)
Jarret Shepherd Ya i never heard anyone say it in my life except americans. every1 just says 'well' or 'hows a goin'. in limerick anyway.. slightly different ones in each county.
Lukes TFitz I've heard "How's she cutting?" but they were just taking the piss out of the cultchies.
DARKBRINGER Let's not forget "How's it goin kiiiid?" and "What's the craic?"
Lukes TFitz Guessing you're from Munster?
Americans call the toilet the john
really amazing
Never heard of these terms before until now;)
Where the fuck is the loo hahahahaha
Jack Conway May as well be a Patric!
I say wheres the Jacks?
Yeah there are words from the Irish language translated and attacking the English language from the inside ... revenge - they insisted we didnt speak gaelige so some that just appealed to them and bastardised the language. ... great SHENANIGANS eh ? Blast it to SMIDEREENS.... everytime you get a TAXI ... three words Irish in origin commonly used by people.
The word "queer" actually means strange, ive never heard anybody say "quare" just a dub way of saying queer!
Queer means gay. Quare is a different word.
@@dyln3242 it just a dublin accent >
@@ThomasMorris55 i have a dublin accent
@@ThomasMorris55 quare and queer are different
'May as well be a Patrick' thats a mood though. Also, we can't explain Irish slang without using more Irish slang
quite a few of these are in england too
Anyone from norn iron
max finlay no, I'm from southern gold
Present.
Fook your not Irish if you live I. Northern Ireland
Aye
LunatiC mmm erm. A lot of us fecking are. In fact it’s meant to be majority Irish by 2021 so shut up. It’s not our fault we got occupied by the brits. We’ve as much Irish blood as anyone
It's called the Jack's because Jack is another name for John and John Crapper invented the crapper, the john, the jacks.
I think you're thinking of Thomas Crapper..
Budo Ka Which is a joke all in itself.
I can close my eyes and hear my two Newfie uncles talking. My nana and mom's family used these phrases and we all live in Canada.
Some communities still have a strong Wexford accent even after 200 hundred years that’s probably why
Great video:)
the kids laugh at 2:33 omfg
Deadly, arseways, yous (as mentioned below), donkey's years...all used in East Central Pennsylvania, USA. We like to hang on to the Old World. We're not ashamed.
I knew quite a lot of these, I think it's because I watched so much mock the week (dara o' brien and Ed Byrne!! :D )
Was surprised that shift wasn't mentioned.
explain, "Jacksepticeye" 😂
LOL xD
A-flo Vlogs No. leave
A-flo Vlogs some Irish computer gowl. Exactly how Irish non-fans would describe him
This is the least funny thing ever
Conversation with Mom:
Me: *Watching Facts New Vid* Mom I want to for to Ireland.
Mom: *Yelling from the kitchen* There are no black people in Ireland.
*Unplugs the Computer, Sit it in the Kitchen, Turns it around to show her this Video*
Mom: * Watches the Video and sees the black guy, turns back around to the dishes Speechless*
Me: *Grinning Widely*
I WON!!!!!
yeeesss!! love it! no lie tho, I was surprised by the black Irish guy.
***** oh, I'm sure there is. I can be a bit nieve at times, I'm American lol
Syonis Macias So wasI thats why I showed my mom the black irish guy, I know about blacks in britain but I wasn't to sure about Ireland and Scottland.
***** Thanks for the info about the decent number of blacks :D Your a true trooper!
***** Well thats great to hear makes me happy !!
Ge Ge his name is paddy too haha
My parents, from the North, use "parful" all the time, meaning "a lot"/"very much". Might just a Northern expression...like finishing every other sentence with "so I am".
I'm reading all of your comments in an irish accent and it's bloody fucken hilarious.
wait... Americans or english dont say deadly for awesome or great!?!? Never knew...
+Teutonician "killer" is about as close as you can get in the U.S.
Killer is more of a Urban English
I'm American. It is American English. I don't know what "urban" English is.
london, manchester, york
American English... isnt that a dialect?
you all sound like you are from Newfoundland Canada
Ikr?? I'm from Newfoundland and I agree with ya xD
Cat Mont that's because way way back a lot of Irish people moved there and they influenced the accent, so technically you guys sound like us
Louise Burke Exactly, actually Newfoundland English is different from general Canadian English, it's been influenced by Irish English a lot !
thats because they got the most american sounding irish people from dublin to talk for them, young people in dublin put on this accent to be cool or something, painful to listen to from an irish point of view
CharWV more people speak polish in Ireland than Irish
The had me at deadly. "It's lethal, that's how good it is!"
Meisterdetektiv Conan lethal mainly an old stool belfast slang deadly being an old stool dubs one, don't know what they have going on nie like
Loving Kindness for the Tuatha De Danann (Irish Dance)
we actually use quite alot of these in England but that's no surprise there ha.
Quare=queer?
Michelle Miyazato Not in a homosexual way. Its more like the original meaning for queer which is something off or something strange. It turned int quare because of how Irish people say specific words and people kept using it because saying that is queer awful or what ever use the word got wouldn't sound right. Although that being said its mainly a midlands term.
Also used as very as well "that's quare good eh"
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Michelle Miyazato Means very in wicklow like that car is quare/qwer/qwern fast
Yup, that's how it got started in the states. Queer was brought over by Irish immigrants meaning the same thing "weird." Then gay guys were referred to as being queer & the phrase stuck
alot of these are used in canada as well...
Most of these are used in Scotland,Wales and England aswell
I wonder what part of Ireland the black lad was born
Reece Delaney Nigeria.
***** Seems Legit
The lad hanging around with the black lad looks like a younger version of the rapist Larry Murphy.
They are both from Sligo. They are in the band Moxie.
black irish..jaysus!!!
O'Bama
Not a shiny pokemon calm down
yiz are playin with yer man niall?
thats class, hes deadly in goals
I can tell you typed that like a commoner to pretend that ur irish or that you want attention for being irish.
@@dyln3242 making fun of the speech
Very interesting!!!!!☺☺☺
I live in Birmingham and knew all of these and are used frequently here.
alyxxxify sure the brummies are practically irish anyway
here In Ireland fierce as we'll as its normal meaning means very. if the weather is fierce hot it's very hot , the same for cold or wet
Last week a shifted a bird from Dungarvan!!!
I'm from a reservation in British Columbia and we use Deadly as awesome or cool also, that is awesome
Here in the U.S. an old slang term for the toilet is the jakes. Undoubtedly related.
cloudfan notthatcloud sure we're practically cousins anyway, North and south and inbetween differs in the sayings but we're still all good craic lol
Jon in America and Jack is a nick name for John ( Jack kennedy). Also hear them called teh jakes. SOmethign with the toilet and J names.
Deadly: french people use it also in the exact same way ! Hilarious. So I definitely understand that. C'est mortel, j'adore ! ❤️❤️❤️
"The Jacks is the Jacks."
Thanks for the explanation.
I like how Deadly is used in Australia as well.
I'm Irish and I use these every day of my life XD
I'm Irish and I have NEVER heard the half of these, like the fuck? 😂 THE JACK, ARSEWAYS, UP YA BOWZY, WHAT IS THIS SHIT? 😂😂
Megan McCann Everyone says these. Where are you from FCS.
Same I’m from Tyrone. Must be Dublin slang. 🤷♀️
When they talk about "Arseways," the guy on the far right looks exactly like Josh Dun! Just with really big hair haha