(Northern) Irish farm words

Imp perfect

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Hey folks, I'm a new grad vet from England and going to be starting out in practice in Northern Ireland. Having spent time on farms in Yorkshire, the English East Midlands and the Scottish Borders, I'm well aware of the regional variations in farm words. However, I'm clueless when it comes to Irish / Northern Irish words.
Anyone care to enlighten me before I go out there and make a fool of myself?
 
What area are you heading to? There's a big difference over here depending whether you are east or west of the river bann.

In the east we chat about the 'moss' where as the boys behind the byre in the west look at us funny and call it 'bog' and also chat about the slap of a field while we simply call it a gate.

'Yo' or 'youi' means ewe

"Jeez bais we are in a while handling calving a pure twist of a cow" (please dear vet can you come an assist with a difficult cow that is calving)
 

Mouser

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Location
near Belfast
Hey folks, I'm a new grad vet from England and going to be starting out in practice in Northern Ireland. Having spent time on farms in Yorkshire, the English East Midlands and the Scottish Borders, I'm well aware of the regional variations in farm words. However, I'm clueless when it comes to Irish / Northern Irish words.
Anyone care to enlighten me before I go out there and make a fool of myself?
Dont worry, we just speak perfectly normal english!🤣
 

Baker9

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N Ireland BT47
Calved - very tired or a machine broke
Handling - a bit of hassle
Guanching - some tom foolery talk
As in the fecking tractors calved and wer're have some handlin getting her fixed because the young boy rouled her
Young boy is a male between 10 and seventy who is still slaving for his Da.
Ganching or slabbering means talking rubbish, which sometimes is caused by too much alcohol, not always, just sometimes.
 
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Angus77

Member
Location
N.Ireland
As others have said it varies from one county to the next and in some cases even between neighbouring villages. Narrow down the area you will be covering and the locals may help you out. Don't worry to much, you'll be grand!
 

Baker9

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N Ireland BT47
Don't worry about it, we will train you in our ways and if a farmer phones and tells you he has a cow "sickacavin" this means she is calving and as he has phoned you there is a problem.
 

Wellytrack

Member
“Ah jaysus, foundered and I need my tae, clean scundered, wile hanlin there hi, that ejit ooer the deek bogged thon auld hoor of a leyland in the slap way the rowler on, ballax anyways. Sure grounds sweemin. Not a tyre of kind, spin on a snotter, wan wheel pointing fur Omagh and other Enniskillen tay hi, my clathes are wrote aff and im clabber til the navel”

Oh dear, I’m cold and hungry and fed up, an awkward incident occurred just prior, neighbour over the ditch appeared to run out of traction in his elderly Leyland just within the gateway, whilst pulling a flat roller. He was silly. Ground conditioners are too moist. It had poor tyres and had poor grip, the front tyres are misaligned too.
My clothes are now in a very bad state and I’m very mucky.
 

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