Going on a “tear” was the only we described “partying”, lol. Sleeveen is another common word used outside the Avalon Peninsula. We use “scrope” as the past tense of scrape in some towns in Central NF but a lot of people there also used “scrawb” too. Those pieces of ice, we called them pans or copy-pans and people would use sticks to jump copy-pans. My parents always called children “youngsters”, always.
My mother from PEI also called them that. My brother wouldn’t believe her, so he got a dictionary and there it was. She was right. We all laughed at that.
Going on a “tear” was the only we described “partying”, lol. Sleeveen is another common word used outside the Avalon Peninsula. We use “scrope” as the past tense of scrape in some towns in Central NF but a lot of people there also used “scrawb” too. Those pieces of ice, we called them pans or copy-pans and people would use sticks to jump copy-pans. My parents always called children “youngsters”, always.
This sounds so familiar to me
thank you for posting ! Enjoyed listening to this GOD bless Eva delightful
This is mad, you’d swear she lived up in Dublin all her life
MMC Not dublin more the southeast kilkenny south tipperary
All them phrases came over with their ancestors from Ireland, and passed down to them who are living on another island fascinating stuff.
Mother called ants pissmires.
My mother from PEI also called them that. My brother wouldn’t believe her, so he got a dictionary and there it was. She was right. We all laughed at that.
Years ago when we went to the Cemetery devotions in Ireland people used to say, Jasus we were ate alive by the pissmires.
My mother used the word ma-kus as a word to mean a buffoon or a fool.
We called them rashers as well.