HOW'S SHE CUTTIN'?
A VERY SHORT DICTIONARY OF SOME WORDS AND PHRASES YOU MIGHT HEAR ON THE HEATH
HOW'S SHE CUTTIN'?
A VERY SHORT DICTIONARY OF SOME WORDS AND PHRASES YOU MIGHT HEAR ON THE HEATH
BANJAXED: 1. Tired or worn out.
'I was banjaxed after the ten mile race.'
2. Broken or useless. 'That old bike is banjaxed.'
BE THE HOKEY!: An expression of amazement.
'Did you hear about the talking dog?'
'Be the hokey!'
BE THE HOLY MAN!: Same as BE THE HOKEY.
COULD: Rhymes with 'towel'. The Heath way of saying 'cold'.
'It's a woeful could day'.
DEADLY: Excellent.
'Your new bike is deadly.'
DOOR (to rhyme with moor): Door
EEJIT: Idiot
GOBDAW: Another idiot!
HAND ME: Give me. 'Hand me that hammer.'
HAPES: The Heath version of 'heaps'. A lot of. 'That lad has hapes of money'.
HOW'S SHE CUTTIN'?: A greeting. 'How are you?' 'How's it going?' 'How are things?'
HOW'S THE CRACK?: 1. Another greeting. 'How are you?' 'How's it going?'
2. To do something FOR THE CRACK: To do something just
for the fun of it.
KITTLE: Kettle.
LAVES: Leaves
(YOU) MAY: You will have to.
'If you break my pencil you may buy me a new one.'
OULD: Old
QUARE HAWK: A weird or suspicious-looking person.
SHOW ME: Give me. 'Show me that hammer.'
STOOK: Yet another idiot!
STOOKAWN: Believe it or not... another idiot!
TAY: Tea
THICK AS A DITCH: If you do
something stupid, we say 'You're as thick as a ditch'.
US: Often used in the Singular, to mean 'me'. A child might say to its mother: 'Mammy, will you give us a few sweets?'
WHATCHAMACALLIT: When we can't think of the proper
name for something, we call it a 'whatchamacallit'.
'I'll be late for the disco, where did I leave that
whatchamacallit!'
WORK AWAY: Means 'Yes', 'Go on' or 'Of course'.
'Can I take a photo of your house, please?'
'Work away.'
YOKE: This small word can stand in for any noun
at all.
YE: The plural of 'You'. When we're talking to more
than one person we always use YE.
'Are ye going to the cinema tonight?'
YER MAN: Means a man or a boy. If we see someone
we know we often say 'Here's yer man'. Or if we're
talking about someone we know we might say 'Yer man's
a right quare hawk'.
YER WAN: The female equivalent of YER MAN.
STOOK!
"How's she cuttin'?"
"Well, I'm only banjaxed."
"Why? What happened?"
"A machine broke down in work and held up the whole
place. Anyway, I get on the phone to a mechanic and,
be the hokey, he was as thick as a ditch. Firstly,
the stook says 'Sure we'll pull this for the crack'
and he nearly... nearly whatchamacallit, oh yeh,
electrocutes himself. When everything quietened down,
yer man, the gobdaw, asks me to get the yoke. 'What yoke?'
says I. 'The hammer!' he says as if I should have known.
Then the eejit nearly took the finger off himself.
Be the holy man, that was enough for me so I left."
"Begob, that's a quare story alright!"
HISTORY PLAYGROUND GAMES HOW'S SHE CUTTIN'? GOODBYE TO PRIMARY SCHOOL NO MORE, NO LESS SORRY, LEONARDO....
TODAY
LOCAL NAMES
MEMORIES PICTURES OF THE PAST
PLACENAMES
A DAY IN THE LIFE
OUR PHOTOGRAPHY
THE CAT LAUGHS?
OUR WRITING PICTURES OF OUR AREA
THE HEATH GAEILGE INTERESTING FACTS
OUR MILLENNIUM
HOW WE WELCOMED... SPORTS
FORTY-FIVE FACES
ARCHAEOLOGY MURDERED ARTISTS