NI Phil
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Dictionary for Mandylicious
Cyat/Cyar etc - cat/car: 'feed that cyat wud ye!'
Paturl - 'put some paturl in that cyar'
Aeeigh (said while breathing in) - Usually said to affirm a statement or simply to break an awkward silence
Next nor near it - close to something: 'I cudn't get parked next nor near it'
Red up - Tidy up
Kyip - A messy place: 'Red up that kyip!'
Stall the bailer - stop
Bail on - keep going (both these phrases are used most frequently when teaching someone to drive in Tyrone)
Through other - Disorganised
Tara - Terribly: 'Those boys are tara through other'. It can also strangely be used to describe dislike for something: 'That bacon's not tara '
Curtin' - going out/dating Stepping out together - see curtin'
Graze a stipe - Type of bird used to describe marshy or bad farmland:
'Sure ye cudn't graze a stipe there!'
Docket - Any type of paperwork whether it be a receipt for a cow or a cinema ticket
Han - Hand
Fut - Foot
Me - My: 'A hurt me fut takin that cyat to the island'
Santee - Santa Clause
Put her broadside - making a car skid sideways
That be's good - Gibberish grammar used to describe an enjoyable event in the past tense
The mara - Tomorrow
Soople - Flexible/Fit
Not a hate - nothing, usually used in response to the question 'any money on ye?' Bate that inta ye - Eat up
Lep - jump
Lept - jumped: 'I lept into that shuck'
State a ye/ Some state - Messy or emaciated appearance: 'you're in some state now'
Ice crame - Ice cream
Mineral - any fizzy drink
Howl that - Hold that
Uvan - Oven
Mur - Mirror
Luk - Look: 'Luk in the mur to see the state a ye'
Cubs/Cutties - boys/girls
Hows she cuttin? - How's it goin?
Full a the blade! - the inevitable answer
Quern - Very: 'its quern hot boy'
Wile hanlin - A difficult situation
Snat azy - its not easy (usually when complaining about work)
Yonder - over there
Fierce - good in the extreme
Hardy weather - freezing outside
Hoke - look for something
Mighty - see fierce
Not a pile - not doing anything: 'up to much the night?' 'ah, not a pile' Well - simultaneously says hello and how are you
Parful - see fierce
Quare - very
Quit - stop
Rare bein - a strange individual
Rightly - see well
Skitter - annoying child
Deadly feed - a large meal
Brutal - harsh
Butther - butter
Cawdin - messing about
Childer - offspring
Mere - come here I would like to tell you something
Filum - film
Foundered - very cold
Good man yerself - thank you very much
Hallion - a disruptive teenager
HTH
Cyat/Cyar etc - cat/car: 'feed that cyat wud ye!'
Paturl - 'put some paturl in that cyar'
Aeeigh (said while breathing in) - Usually said to affirm a statement or simply to break an awkward silence
Next nor near it - close to something: 'I cudn't get parked next nor near it'
Red up - Tidy up
Kyip - A messy place: 'Red up that kyip!'
Stall the bailer - stop
Bail on - keep going (both these phrases are used most frequently when teaching someone to drive in Tyrone)
Through other - Disorganised
Tara - Terribly: 'Those boys are tara through other'. It can also strangely be used to describe dislike for something: 'That bacon's not tara '
Curtin' - going out/dating Stepping out together - see curtin'
Graze a stipe - Type of bird used to describe marshy or bad farmland:
'Sure ye cudn't graze a stipe there!'
Docket - Any type of paperwork whether it be a receipt for a cow or a cinema ticket
Han - Hand
Fut - Foot
Me - My: 'A hurt me fut takin that cyat to the island'
Santee - Santa Clause
Put her broadside - making a car skid sideways
That be's good - Gibberish grammar used to describe an enjoyable event in the past tense
The mara - Tomorrow
Soople - Flexible/Fit
Not a hate - nothing, usually used in response to the question 'any money on ye?' Bate that inta ye - Eat up
Lep - jump
Lept - jumped: 'I lept into that shuck'
State a ye/ Some state - Messy or emaciated appearance: 'you're in some state now'
Ice crame - Ice cream
Mineral - any fizzy drink
Howl that - Hold that
Uvan - Oven
Mur - Mirror
Luk - Look: 'Luk in the mur to see the state a ye'
Cubs/Cutties - boys/girls
Hows she cuttin? - How's it goin?
Full a the blade! - the inevitable answer
Quern - Very: 'its quern hot boy'
Wile hanlin - A difficult situation
Snat azy - its not easy (usually when complaining about work)
Yonder - over there
Fierce - good in the extreme
Hardy weather - freezing outside
Hoke - look for something
Mighty - see fierce
Not a pile - not doing anything: 'up to much the night?' 'ah, not a pile' Well - simultaneously says hello and how are you
Parful - see fierce
Quare - very
Quit - stop
Rare bein - a strange individual
Rightly - see well
Skitter - annoying child
Deadly feed - a large meal
Brutal - harsh
Butther - butter
Cawdin - messing about
Childer - offspring
Mere - come here I would like to tell you something
Filum - film
Foundered - very cold
Good man yerself - thank you very much
Hallion - a disruptive teenager
HTH
