Irish People Explain Irish Insults 

Totally! These kids haven't a clue.

theeggtimer tic tic Yes and I always think of a gobshite as someone who chats shit,hence a gob full of shite! Just my understanding!

theeggtimer tic tic Eejit was in out book in school and also gobshite it was said as "we're a bunch of eejits are we" and "You shower of gobshites ill bloddy murder ye£

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Yeh deffo thats what i was thinking 😂

yes! yes! yes!!!

women....

I am a man.

I couldn't agree more. It's like cuteness was a god and descended to earth.

@@yesezra what?

Keep up the good work :)

Yeees!! :3

***** yas !!

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***** Have it Paused on Him right now weirdly enough, Very good looking

I know who that guy is!

Me to lol

itzzzleelee same

Same

itzzzleelee same

Irish are the happy people and we are the best at insults im proud to be irish

You beaur you I'm getting so fuckin pissed off my Arse reading these comments. You tell em Sara you Saint you!😂

Kid Sheldon It is a "form" of idiot. Perhaps not a direct translation for it.

Gabriele Genota Still incorrect say it’s not idiot though.

Eejit almost certainly does come from idiot. Ask a French person to pronounce idiot.

NíChiaráin Sorry we missed you! Maybe next time, keep an eye out for us!

+Hannah Matthau looks like somewhere in Tallagh or somewhere in town

+Hannah Matthau the one in Dublin close to the gaiety theatre, can't remember the name lol!

+Facts. I'll be down by hallowe'en, searching again for ye's!

+FaZe “xXx_420_Dank_Engine_xXx” Train sephens green

I loved that movie(The Commitments) It is brilliant!!

K Gall. Used to here my co-workers talking their Irish to the girls walk in by the job ( a new apartment being framed) ...it sound like how's the girls as they walk by this smart ass guy red haired fuckin guy was giving us all stomach pains from laughing are asses off. Every time these girls would flirt and laugh too ...took me a minute to figure it out (he was really saying how's the gash..her pussy") oh and these girl's ain't got a clue...every day at break and lunch. More funny than jackass. . .the fucking red haired guy was from cork , fastest talker shenanigans flowing ..that was San Francisco on Fillmore &haight in 85....I kinda knew back then what he was saying ..but never asked...my mom from Tipperary ...but Cork takes it to another level . If you had the balls to say that to girls in Ire. ,u might get laid every now and then....but you would be getting slapped and fighting the brothers and then the dad ...lol

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There no penny's there tho:(

Yeah I noticed!

MolotovPiggy St. Stephens...

I was talking to these German lads once and I used the word gas about ten times in the conversation. Couldn't help it.

Yeah gowl is a cork thing :)

We here in Limerick city believe we own the word gowl. Have never heard it said outside Limerick before. But I may stand corrected?

Nicole Stewart Sorry to inform you but Gowl is a Limerick thing only !!

K Gall Nope, it's used all the time here in Cork for ages.

Knew Scotland were the best country in the UK. God, I think its cuz ur so like us ;)

Scotland, is very like Ireland! We first had the bag pipes, and the Scottish had the tinwhistles. We swapped them over and now we have the tinwhistles! I'm unsure why Ireland is like Scotland but it just is! What can happen do? 😋

+Aphrodite Stables * what can ya do!😋 (sorry, stupid autocorrections!) tut tut tut!☺️😆😋😂😁😄😀😃😅

+Aphrodite Stables * what can ya do!😋 (sorry, stupid autocorrections!) tut tut tut!☺️😆😋😂😁😄😀😃😅

+Aphrodite Stables and the gingers lol

Spailpin (with a fada over the second i -stupid phone ) means a labourer. It could have another meaning if your dad used it this way though...although these 'spailpins' were very much looked down on and mocked.

Grainne McKeown It was my uncle who had always used it, he said it was a sort of insult reserved for people who were useless beyond simply being a body at work. It is derived from spailpin but I was spelling it out the way he pronounced it

That wasn't him, eejit!

probably the Irish immigrants brought that to ya lol

Jacob McCartney I don’t think so because then it would be present here in Boston for sure but we’re more likely to call people dumbasses and morons than idiots around here. It’s more because some souther accents lend more to idiot sounding similar.

Irish diaspora in Illinois have kept it alive too, my mom still says it.

That is a reputation they have. They're supposedly very nice and friendly. I've never actually been to Ireland, but that's what I've heard from other Americans who have visited the country.

Try listening to Louisiana Acadians talk, even when they speak American English, you cannot understand them. They live in the swampy areas, their language is Cajun French. Nice people.

+Madeline Boyer I would love to go there and do that :D

Beer Guy Reviews You would love it. The Acadians come in for the smaller country fairs, they set up booths, cook huge pots of beans and rice with big chunks of homemade sausage, onions, Creole seasoning. Also frog legs, shrimp, fish. They go home rich!

Ghosty thx

Ghosty thank you ^.^

Thanks.

You should

Thank you 👍

John Paul Hansen Our Blaithín will be gracing the screen again, we have a number of videos being edited at the moment so you need not worry ;-)

Hollywood, man

+Jeff Morse In the show Supernatural there was an older father figure type character from the South that used that term "Idgit". I thought it was just something they kind of made up. I stand corrected.

+Jackie Vester That was Bobby that used to say that. So a good comparision between "eejit" and "idgit" is that Bobby says "idgit" and Mrs Brown says "ya eejit!"

+Anna G I thought of bobby as well

I've heard it in the Midwest, too.

More than likely Irish immigrants used these words widely in America and it just spread from there with different spelling and iterations