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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I just remembered an old favourite Dublin expression that makes me smile - 'does be'.

eg: Food does be on my mind a lot.

Also the phrase 'do be doing' love it!!

Share your favourite Dublinisms below.

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By *osmicGateMan
over a year ago

louth

Ah jaaaysuus howaya booodey

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By *quinnMan
over a year ago

Limerick

'Wha' used at the end of every sentence.

'How are you wha?'

'Lovely day wha?'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im fond of a Jayyssus too

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By *ofusplusCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

"I just remembered an old favourite Dublin expression that makes me smile - 'does be'.

eg: Food does be on my mind a lot.

Also the phrase 'do be doing' love it!!

Share your favourite Dublinisms below.

It does be a Limerick saying as well, Rub

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Ah heeeeeorr, leave ih bleeeeedin ou!

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Ask me bollox

How's your gee

Culchie

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

This is a load a me bollix

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I will in me bollix

Stall it the shop

Leggit

Sketch boyz

Your wan is banjoed.

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

Herreld R pres

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How yiz?... Hahah!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me old segotia

Also the use of both Christian and surname by a family member to scold a child

As In "Alan Murphy come in outta that garden"

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By *osmicGateMan
over a year ago

louth

Me aul flouer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Im fond of a Jayyssus too

Ah Jaysis, always saying it so I am

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

* heya Ma, whats for dinner?

* It's coddle love..

* Ah.. bleedin massive!

Could be a scene from fair city!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

LoL yeah, now yiz are talkin'

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By *sLittleRedRidingHoodWoman
over a year ago

Magical Forrest

I have a weakness for Dub accent .... whats that saying " fanny flutters"

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Lock hard

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"* heya Ma, whats for dinner?

* It's coddle love..

* Ah.. bleedin massive!

Could be a scene from fair city!!

I got in awful trouble once for telling a girl her leggings were massive - the compliment I intended didnt translate to her

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have a weakness for Dub accent .... whats that saying " fanny flutters" "

A Donegal accent is certainly a weekness of mine...

maybe we could swap voice notes so we can both get our fill of accents we like

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ah heeeeeorr, leave ih bleeeeedin ou! "

Deadly - please record this for me

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By *iquidRavenMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Geeerrrruppp

In anyways

"Where's me ma/me da" said by a person to a sister/brother... you'd just say where's ma or da

She/he's a head like a bag of mickies

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

How to speak like a dub

https://youtu.be/xbk5o9Ms6sI

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

in anyways - or - an anyways

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shiver me timbers

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Shiver me timbers

Ger ourra da' garden

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I checked with The Ma OP. She's says Game Ball to nearly all of the above Dublin Twang words. She says to say to you all "well done youngwans"

Except "Shiver me Timbers". She says it might be something the country folk say or something from before her time. She also said "fecking Vikings" under her breath. I think she got mixed up with Pirates.

But all the rest are...and I quote.."Deadly Buzz"

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I checked with The Ma OP. She's says Game Ball to nearly all of the above Dublin Twang words. She says to say to you all "well done youngwans"

But all the rest are...and I quote.."Deadly Buzz"

Your Ma is dead on Fozz. Tell her I said she's feckin' rapid.

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By *ent and bratCouple
over a year ago

here there everywhere

Ask meee hoop

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ask meee hoop"

yeeeahhh

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By *aid backMan
over a year ago

by a lake with my rod out

Gerrrr rup ouda dat

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By *onnieladMan
over a year ago

Mayo

A wee bit off the subject matter but who remembers "Bang Bang"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm scarlehh for ya

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm scarlehh for ya

Im scarlehh for your Ma

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A wee bit off the subject matter but who remembers "Bang Bang""

Dont know how to spell it but used to love the guy who finished each sentence with "Dineh Dineh"

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By *ohnFKMan
over a year ago

Where the Streets Have No Name

"Wha?...No loitering??...

How'm I spost to smoke the ting then, ya bleedin pox ball ya"*

(Or something like that.)

*Tommy Tiernan

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By *etergemmaCouple
over a year ago

South Dublin Area

See that over there?

Yea!

Hang your bollox off it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

put these two together and you get the old classic 'pox bollix'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coola Boola!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

com ere in I tell yez

Absa-bleedin-lutley ....

da hack a ya

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
over a year ago

Northside

"are yiz havin yizer dinner?"

"D'ya know where the 5 lamps are? Then go hang yer bollix on them!"

"Seen ya on the road yesterday but by the time I caught up with ya you were gone!"

"Giz a packah a crips,cheese an nunion!"

"The diddys on yer wan....!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We will get the "Lewy" into town for a few scoops!

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
over a year ago

Northside

"We will get the "Lewy" into town for a few scoops!

The auld Daniel Day...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We will get the "Lewy" into town for a few scoops!

The auld Daniel Day...

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and not to forget the tart with the cart and the floozy in the jacuzzi!!

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
over a year ago

Northside

"We will get the "Lewy" into town for a few scoops!

The auld Daniel Day...

and not to forget the tart with the cart and the floozy in the jacuzzi!!

And the Hags with the Bags on lower Liffey St!!

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Or the stiletto in the ghetto

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"We will get the "Lewy" into town for a few scoops!

Scoops!! oh god the nostalgia is killing me now.

And the bag of crips reminded me of the going to 'the hosdibal'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We will get the "Lewy" into town for a few scoops!

Scoops!! oh god the nostalgia is killing me now.

And the bag of crips reminded me of the going to 'the hosdibal'

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.. Oh yeah Friday at 4.55pm and someone in work shouts "scoops" and the weekend has begun!... Ah the memories

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"De ya know where the 5 lamps are?" ..........well ya can hang yer bollox off them.

A real inner city D1 saying

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Story bud?

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Or What's the story?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Incorrect.... no real dub can pronounce "the" they say "da"

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

"Incorrect.... no real dub can pronounce "the" they say "da"

What's da story bud?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Incorrect.... no real dub can pronounce "the" they say "da"

dis is de tru'h

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me Bollix!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The lift wood kill em!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chandlers - maggots

And from long long ago (70s and back) before kids swore

Janey

as in Janey Mac

as in

Janey Mac

Me shirt is black

What will i do for Sunday?

Ill go to bed

And ill bury me head

And I wont get up to monday

Jeepers would be another in the same vein as in Jeepers Creepers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Heeeey buuuud eny chance of 2 youryos for a roll!"

"No! Now piss off"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me moh.... (mott but the 't' eludes the Dublin accent a fair bit of the time)

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By *ack4goodMan
over a year ago

Area

Are ya wide or what?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Are ya wide or wha'? "

fixed it foryou

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What about the D4 brigade... Any well known expressions from that quarter?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"What about the D4 brigade... Any well known expressions from that quarter? "

Ill block my ears for this one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What about the D4 brigade... Any well known expressions from that quarter?

Ill block my ears for this one

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... Haha.. Roight so guoys, i would be like totes morto if I had to go northside, like where the fock is Coolock anyway? BOD is my hero... He is such a ledge.. Meeting him and some of the guoys for a few Heinos in McSorleys tonoight... Later peeps

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By *ettaManMan
over a year ago

Kerry and Dublin

aaah deadly! y'goh a new boike!? Giz a shoh will ya.

Don't be a bleedin sap! I'm only leggin it down to knock in for Timmo, Johno, and Redzer. Oill bleedin' ba'er ya if ya don't.

I'll giveya game a kerbs when I geh back.

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By *aid backMan
over a year ago

by a lake with my rod out

I will yeah.

Ask me bollox

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Some people on here have only visited Dublin on Dec 8th and all Ireland Sunday..ffs

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By *ettaManMan
over a year ago

Kerry and Dublin

Giz afters on da smoke willya?

Oi baggsy ends!

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By *iver80Man
over a year ago

south side ,

Ah fair play to yeah

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"What about the D4 brigade... Any well known expressions from that quarter?

Ill block my ears for this one

... Haha.. Roight so guoys, i would be like totes morto if I had to go northside, like where the fock is Coolock anyway? BOD is my hero... He is such a ledge.. Meeting him and some of the guoys for a few Heinos in McSorleys tonoight... Later peeps

Agh me ears

Im just imagining the horror of this poor fellafalling asleep on the 'Dort' and waking up on the 'wrong end of the tracks' lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My favourite Dublin one atm is

"An all"

There I was sitting at the bar an all...

Best Wexford one has to be "wantin"

You wantin a hanky with da ?

Cork kerry clare is "like"

That's on the ball like...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm gonna get myself into trouble here aren't I ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm gonna get myself into trouble here aren't I ? "

Not at all - its all deadly

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By *astexitMan
over a year ago

Dublin

I love reading all of these.....

I lived in Norway from 2003-14 and grew to miss the Dublin and Irish way with words more and more and more.

And a few I ended up inadvertently passing on.

The generic term for any person was my favourite..

"Here.....head the ball....yeah, you"

Brilliant...

And when I started overhearing people I worked with speaking Norwegian to one another and noticing that they were saying 'Deadly'...without noticing themselves.

Everyone was saying it after a while.

And nearly everyone at some point asked me why I said 'Your man' for a bloke or 'Your one' for a girl.

I never even noticed.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I love reading all of these.....

I lived in Norway from 2003-14 and grew to miss the Dublin and Irish way with words more and more and more.

And a few I ended up inadvertently passing on.

The generic term for any person was my favourite..

"Here.....head the ball....yeah, you"

Brilliant...

And when I started overhearing people I worked with speaking Norwegian to one another and noticing that they were saying 'Deadly'...without noticing themselves.

Everyone was saying it after a while.

And nearly everyone at some point asked me why I said 'Your man' for a bloke or 'Your one' for a girl.

I never even noticed."

yes! your man and your one ha haha, its so confusing but we say it without thinking. Is that just Dublin or is it a general Irish expression.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"I love reading all of these.....

I lived in Norway from 2003-14 and grew to miss the Dublin and Irish way with words more and more and more.

And a few I ended up inadvertently passing on.

The generic term for any person was my favourite..

"Here.....head the ball....yeah, you"

Brilliant...

And when I started overhearing people I worked with speaking Norwegian to one another and noticing that they were saying 'Deadly'...without noticing themselves.

Everyone was saying it after a while.

And nearly everyone at some point asked me why I said 'Your man' for a bloke or 'Your one' for a girl.

I never even noticed.

yes! your man and your one ha haha, its so confusing but we say it without thinking. Is that just Dublin or is it a general Irish expression."

I'd say that's fairly general alright.

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