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New Day Cafe: Wednesday Whimsies [1]
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Date: 2023-03-22
Grab a cuppa, pull up a chair, and join us for some whimsy and chat!
Good morning, friends! Here's a photo I took of a horse being silly. I thought it'd be great for Wacky Wednesday. Have a good day everyone. ✌️🙂🤪🐴 pic.twitter.com/Qv85WFZa6y
There are still plenty of things I dodn’t know about being Irish. Including how much our language influenced modern English!
We don't normally exclaim "Gee whiz" or "Gee whilikers" anymore.
We associate such talk with a classic time in New York when Irish Gaelic was the secret language of the slums, an Irish Gaelic word which means 's slom é, or "it's bleak."
In the slums, it was common to hear Irish people say Dia Thoilleachas, Gee Hillukus, which became Gee Whilikers, and means the "will of God."
"Gee" is the approximate pronunciation of Dia or the Irish word for God.
"Holy cow" means Holy Cathú or Holy Cahoo or Holy Grief.
"Darn" is another Gaelic exclamation. In Irish, you say daithairne ort, which means, "darn on you" or "misfortune on you."
Gee whiz comes from Dia Uas or Geeuh Woous which means "noble god."
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Buddy is another Irish Gaelic word, which comes from the Irish expression, a vuddy, or a bhodaigh, which means something like "pal." The root of the word bhodaigh is strangely, bod, which is the Irish word for penis, and pronounced like bud.
Speaking of body parts, the Irish put their Gaelic mark all over the stiff, or corpse, which comes from the word staf or "big guy."
If someone has their snout in the air, they're acting like snoots, which comes from the Irish expression snua aird or when someone appears to be on high and is acting like a swank swell with his nose in the air.
Mug, however, is insulting, and the common phrase "ugly mug" comes from the word muic, which means pig.
In Irish if you want to make sure someone understands your meaning, you say, Diggin tú? It's a normal phrase you hear at the end of sentences all the time. In America, An duigeann tú? Became Diggin you? or You dig?
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