(Northern) Irish farm words

[Imp perfect]

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?

 

[Whitepeak]

Graip (not sure on spelling) was one that got me when I worked over there. It's a muck fork or a pitch fork apparently

 

[40 series]

Calved - very tired or a machine broke
Handling - a bit of hassle
Guanching - some tom foolery talk

 

[deleted user 436632456]

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]

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!

 

[Agrivator]

''So it is'' seems to be a very frequent phrase.

I have no idea what it means.

And ''our friends south of the border'' seems to mean ''we are suspicious of every.........''

 

[SR7]

'Quer' - not sure how to spell it

Example - 'Thats a quer big cow'
'That is a very big cow'

 

[Bones]

Probably speak to fast

 

[wdah/him]

Strange sense of humour and some have no sense of humour.

 

[shearerlad]

Have a look for Donkey262 on Facebook, that will give you an education

 

[cowboysupper]

Have a look for Donkey262 on Facebook, that will give you an education

Was just about to say! .

 

[Baker9]

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.

 

[Will 1594]

Dead on 100% ,

 

[bobk]

''So it is'' seems to be a very frequent phrase.

I have no idea what it means.

And ''our friends south of the border'' seems to mean ''we are suspicious of every.........''

so it is .

 

[Angus77]

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!

 

[ridger]

If your starving in strabane your very hungry, if your starving in ballymena, your cold

 

[Baker9]

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.

 

[v8willy]

Have a look for Donkey262 on Facebook, that will give you an education

He's on eight 2's at the minute on tiktok, due to being banned that often...

 

[Wellytrack]

“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.

 

[Agrivator]

At least we can understand their friends South of the Border.