Wait till you lads are old enough to have their teenage friends and girlfriends change their names, it will irritate you more than Notts Forest I guarantee
I already know what nickname my kids will have. Its the same nickname I have, my brother has, my dad and grandad both had. Its all about the surname Talking of which
Don't tell me your mrs [not married] calls you by your surname nick name - like if it was Smith > Smudger - surely not - not your mrs.
My mrs (not married) as only ever known me as Dev. Only place that uses my proper name is work, even family call me a nickname but from my first name
No, I'm all for nicknames. In fact, when naming ours, I kept trying to extend the suggestions so that they would be shortened to what we wanted; for example, if you like if you like "Harry" then call him Harrison"
Have some cork slang C'mere ... Excuse me I will,yeah ... no What's the story fella? ... How are you? how's the form? ... How are you? how's it hanging? ... How are you? You would yeah ... You wouldn't dare Here la ... here you are there la ... it's over there/look over there State a him la ... He looks bad Ah/awe) now sham ... thats good I claim ya ... I would really like to engage in a fight with you. Pure ... very Like ... this word is used at least once in every Cork sentence. Like eh ... Used as a hesitation at the start of a sentence. Nawful ... terrible Bate ... beat up have a lash off ... have a go Foggin on ... Smoke cannibas Be wide ... be careful Be dog wide ... be extra careful How bad biy ... good Biy ... man/person.
Part 2: Nouns & verbs Brasser/stella/tramp/trollup ... prostitute Jammy Rag ... tampon Wan/bure ... female Young wan ... female child Fella/fein/ feeno/your man ... male Small fella ... Male child Mam, ole laid, ole wan ... mother Ole fella ... father Apache ... joyrider Salk ... stolen car Sham-feen ... macho or hard-man Snout/gonker/snoz ... nose Gowl(Ghoul) ... Stupid person Gimp ... idiot Fifty ... Stood up Poppies/tatties ... Potatoes Shades/law/blue bottles/pigs/5-0 ... Garda Two-bulb/shade mobile ... squad car Pig stie ... Garda station Gatch ... walk Gammy ... deformed Jag/doing a line/jaggin/meetin a wan/with/ ... going out with Gatt/gattin/on the tear/on the piss ... drink/drinking Reef/reefin/mangle ... beat up/beating up Lamp/skanse/la ..m look Droppin/Waz ... need to go to the toilet/restroom Wah /Whacker ... not a nice person Norrie ... Person from Northside of the Cork City.
Ive been recovering from a collapsed lung which should have meant id be on here more but it didnt work out that way ... then maltese mike banned me for making a second account and bitching about not606 with it. It was funny in my head at the time although I was on morphine tablets
My brother let's say his name is Richard was always called Richard at home, his friends called him Rick but his wife called him Ricky which drove my Mum mad because while she could go along with Rick, she'd had a neighbour called Ricky who was a fat slob and a bit of a villain - apparently - and not someone she wanted to be reminded of nor did she like the thought her son had his name!
