Some useful phrases to help you understand the game of football and hurling

Báite - eg 'I gave it báite' - I put a fair bit of effort into it

Stomached - surprised eg. 'Jays, when he came up behind me I was awful stomached'

Mighty - very good

Hames - a right mess - eg. 'he made a hames of that clearance'

Timber - intimidation of a hurling opponent

Welt - swing at

Lamp - a good thump

A Crowd – e.g. 'that crowd from Ardrahan are a right shower of eejits'

Schkelp - a good thump

Bullin' - angry. eg. 'the centre half back was bullin' after I lamped him'

Bull thick - very angry

Joult - a push

Joshel - a shoulder push

The Comm-it-eeee - Local GAA eejits in general

Bushted - eg. 'Jayz me arm is busted'

Bomber - a very popular nickname for a GAA player

A hang sangwidge - consumed with tay on the sides of roads after matches in Croker or Thurles.

Citeog - he hit it with his citeog. ie. left handed/footed

Warp - hit something hard as in 'I'll  warp you'

Blast - A great amount of anything.

Rake - Also a great amount of anything, usually pints of Guinness

A Shamozzle - a group of players shkelpin' one another but not exactly hittin' anyone at the same time!

Flakin' - usually goes on for a whole game..... eg. 'Jayz Mike Murphy gave Tony Delaney an awful flakin' below in training on Sunday'. To 'flake' a lad for a whole game usually starts off with a bit of the aforementioned 'joshellin'' and 'joultin'' and develops into a bit of 'weltin'' and may even result in a good 'lampin'' for the victim especially if he gets 'bull thick'.

Namajaysus - What was that for, referee?

Leh-it-in-ta-me-would-ya - Full forward's appeal to a midfielder for a more timely delivery of the pass

Mullocker - untidy or awkward players

Horsed - bout of rough play or intimidatory tactics as in “we horsed them out of it

Horse - untidy or rough player. There's one in every club ( The Legendary “Horse” Delaney)

Row - Fight involving four or more players swinging hurleys like lunatics

Massive Row - Row involving both team,substitutes and supporters jumping fences

Running Row - A massive row that continues out in the parking area and/or dressing room areas

** Here's a few more you'd hear around Gurtagarry or Ballymackey **:

'Come up ta **** '- A corner back back trying to rise the ball .

'Lord Lantern Jaysus..' - 'The next time you do that I'll kill ya'

'a hape' - A big quantity (Heap)

'in the paw' - To catch the ball.

'a Brawl' - A collection of bodies in disagreement with each other.

'a Dinger' - Usually a fast wing forward who can leave his opponent 'for Dust'.

'a right  eejit - The Ref was a bit biased towards the other team.