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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Oct 26, 2014 0:09:21 GMT
In parts of Kerry people sometimes put the word "hi" on to the end of a comment/saying/greeting.For example when you meet someone the salutation might be: "Hows the goin hi" Well,we were playing a team from West Kerry one day and the day was windy and our midfielders were getting the better of the men from the west.A west Kerry mentor spotted that the ball was coming out too high so he emitted the following comment: "Will you kick the f********* ball out low,hi" Incidentally we lost the game. What you say is right hi & on top of that, you also find that the words boy and girl are snuck in to the end of sentences as well- "How're you boy", or How're you girl". I think they use the word 'lad' in Cork & 'bud' in Limerick. Another habit we have is using the word 'lads' (How're ye lads?)...even if all the people in the crowd are ladies.
Coming back to the original topic posed, a few more GAA related words & phrases that spring to mind are...
- a haymaker, a hospital pass, bury him, shipped a challenge, tear into um lads - playing out of his skin, a game of two halves, a rasper, scissors pass, pride in the geansai - blanket defence, swarm tactics, puke football, match-ups, double-tagging (all modern)
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Oct 26, 2014 8:36:32 GMT
Kick it in low hi was always Lispole.
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Post by stevieq on Oct 26, 2014 21:32:56 GMT
Schmozzle A minor fight, usually an on-field quarrel between GAA players. Pronounced “sheh-MOZZ-uhl”, this is GAA sporting slang coined by Irish radio presenter Michael O’Hehir. It refers to a minor altercation between players - quarrels that don’t escalate into serious physical violence. A bit of wrestling, a few shoves - ah sure, nothing but a schmozzle. What's going on over there? oh, it's a bit of a schmozzle. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schmozzleAlso referred to as "handbags", or "getting to know each other". As in Paul Galvin and Noel O'Leary are just getting to know each other.
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Oct 26, 2014 22:10:13 GMT
Kick it in low hi was always Lispole. ...if there was a high wind, I'd imagine ye'd be saying 'kick it in high hi'
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Post by chancer on Oct 28, 2014 13:21:30 GMT
Weeshie Fogarty has an obvious gra for 'turned around' No matter where a player receives the ball he has to turn around according to Weeshie. My own favourite has to be Driveitouttaf##kwillya. Heard at every GAA match. haha yes this is quite true when describing Kieran Donaghy's goal in the all Ireland final he stated that he got the ball and turned around although he was facing the goal at all times during that particular play! still a great commentator though!
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Post by Chinatown on Nov 2, 2014 15:48:40 GMT
Let me at them, hold me back.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Nov 2, 2014 18:59:04 GMT
I did hear a lot of "he turned around" today!
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 3, 2014 8:02:56 GMT
this isn't a word but an expression.
Its purely Kerry.
Its used to let someone know that a young fella has got the call up to join the Kerry panel at minor or senior level. This call up is a right of passage for the young lad and a signal that he might have what it takes to carry the torch.
The expression ' "He's inside in Killarney"
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Post by diego on Nov 4, 2014 13:54:21 GMT
Honourable mention for "CREASE HIM".
This shout of encouragement, usually from a boisterous member of the local club team's support, will often be heard when a dangerous attacker of the pacy variety is tearing up the field in a threatening fashion.
The advice offerered from the sideline to a sturdy but slow member of the rearguard (in the Francie Bellew mould) will be to 'crease him', i.e. to take one for team by committing a tactical foul/assault.
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Post by glengael on Nov 4, 2014 19:02:00 GMT
this isn't a word but an expression. Its purely Kerry. Its used to let someone know that a young fella has got the call up to join the Kerry panel at minor or senior level. This call up is a right of passage for the young lad and a signal that he might have what it takes to carry the torch. The expression ' "He's inside in Killarney" Darragh uses that phrase quite a bit when speaking about a player "you'd be inside in training in Killarney and he'd do XY or Z or X Y or Z happened...." I still smile at his description of the letter arriving in the post to say he'd been selected to play for Kerry. It seems so quaint now. Can you if imagine that still happened in 2014? GAA Paparazzi with camera phones would be parked outside certain houses waiting to see if there was any post that day and if so, was it more than the ESB bill!
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Post by fitz on Nov 4, 2014 21:15:25 GMT
Honourable mention for "CREASE HIM". This shout of encouragement, usually from a boisterous member of the local club team's support, will often be heard when a dangerous attacker of the pacy variety is tearing up the field in a threatening fashion. The advice offerered from the sideline to a sturdy but slow member of the rearguard (in the Francie Bellew mould) will be to 'crease him', i.e. to take one for team by committing a tactical foul/assault. My father in law uses "get into him" a fair bit once any of the opposition makes any bit of headway, and if he makes significant headway more collective enforcement is summoned "get into him lads"
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Post by givehimaball on Nov 5, 2014 6:19:03 GMT
this isn't a word but an expression. Its purely Kerry. Its used to let someone know that a young fella has got the call up to join the Kerry panel at minor or senior level. This call up is a right of passage for the young lad and a signal that he might have what it takes to carry the torch. The expression ' "He's inside in Killarney" Darragh uses that phrase quite a bit when speaking about a player "you'd be inside in training in Killarney and he'd do XY or Z or X Y or Z happened...." I still smile at his description of the letter arriving in the post to say he'd been selected to play for Kerry. It seems so quaint now. Can you if imagine that still happened in 2014? GAA Paparazzi with camera phones would be parked outside certain houses waiting to see if there was any post that day and if so, was it more than the ESB bill! In Killarney there'd be no Legion player anywhere near any Kerry squad given the hold the Crokes lads have over An Post.
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Post by westmeathman on Dec 10, 2014 9:58:43 GMT
I could hear the neighbours two young lads out having a kick around on their back lawn last Sunday. One of them must of kicked a score and I heard him shout"what do you think of that joe brolly" I had a great laugh to myself Could be a statement thats heard at gaa grounds across the country for many years to come
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Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 10, 2014 21:01:59 GMT
Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13, and if you don't believe it then just ask anyone who ever had the good job of marking The Gooch. Watching a Munster rugby game on Sky, the English commentator was sure we'd loose, well until the inevitable loomed and so with 10 minutes to go his confidence finally dried up and his predictive notions changed accordingly. This young lad on the next stool to me pipes up, "the commentator is now trying to put the s**t back into the horse". Frenemy/Frenemies - GAA camaraderie suspended for an unhappy happy hour, that love/hate relationship! The Ghost Train -The CIE vehicle assigned to ferry Mayo home after playing Kerry A week may be a life time in politics but an hour is an eternity in sport, when you lose! A soccer lad of a day missed making the right head contact with the ball only for a No 16 to shout "chalk your cue". The longest tooth is often in the toothless gob Life is all downhill once you reach the summit, so be careful when picking your fights Which is worse, boxing above your weight or your strength? Those with the most empty space between the ears take in everything, and also let it outAs wide as a gate, i.e. Wide! Cleaned him out, i.e. Beat his opponent. We were on top of 'em from the time the ball was thrown up 'till time was up. Folkfactlore Scholarships - Ryanair planes transporting Irish emigrant scholars The Matchbox - A Kerryman's TV Queen of Clubs -A woman helping out in the GAA The K Factor, i.e. The elusive Kerry Ingredient Arán a bhí .. well if you're Irish you know and if you're not then it ain't important, it was our bread!
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Post by kerrygold on Dec 11, 2014 10:22:55 GMT
In the team huddle at half time, "A lads will ye come on will ye". usually accompanied by the sight of a manager pulling his hair out in frustration.
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