Nothing shows the creativity of Northern Ireland spake quite like our insults
English is the primary language spoken here. Yet our day-to-day conversations are littered with a variety of other words and phrases that stem from the Irish language and Ulster Scots.
This means that we linguistically overlap with the Republic of Ireland, England and Scotland. But there's also words and phrases completely unique to us that you wouldn't hear anywhere else.. Be it the disparaging comments of a head-shaking mother, the slew of words hurled between fighting schoolkids or just some well-meaning slagging, our insults are something else altogether.
We put together a list of insulting nouns, adjectives and poetic comparisons that only really make sense to those who grew up in Northern Ireland. Some are more common to particular counties, cities and towns, but chances are you've heard a few eejits described by these over the years.“He’s an awful scobe him, always spongin’ off his poor ma.”“Away wi’ ye, ye clart, the dead lice are fallin’ off ye.”“Some wee spide stroked his phone.
Milly/millie/milliard/millbag Stereotypical terms for a loutish, tracksuit-wearing, working-class girl. Originates from the phrase ‘mill girls’, which described the young women working in Northern Ireland’s linen mills in past decades. like a well-chewed chop/a fur hatchet/a melted welly/that only a mother could love Visibly unattractive.“Thon lad has a face only a mother could love. He could eat an apple through a tennis racket, the poor craithur.
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