Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Men are Emotional Hallions
Guess I'd better explain, I love slang words and their use in the local vernacular. I especially like being reaquainted with Northern Irish vernacular that I haven't used for ages.
So having had my Da over, we were talking in the car about our ability to upset the female species with what to us are just terms of endearment. The basic premise that we came to was summed up very aptly: "Men are emotional Hallions" they just don't understand that while you can call your mates or son a gobshite, its best not to say the same thing to a women as they will only dwell on it and you'll never hear the end of it.
Let me elucidate a bit on the word Hallion, it is an old Irish word for “a badly behaved kid or rogue" other examples of usage include:
He’s turning into a right hallion.
When I catch that hallion.....
I'm going to tell them that I've been a rip and a hallion.
Oh, you dirty hallion.
What kind of a dirty hallion is she a'tall?".
I have to say my mummy (yep even at 33 I still call her mummy, its the irish way) called me a dirty hallion a time or two when I was young. It was normally when I had rushed in a grabbed something to eat and rushed back outside again without washing my hands.
So having had my Da over, we were talking in the car about our ability to upset the female species with what to us are just terms of endearment. The basic premise that we came to was summed up very aptly: "Men are emotional Hallions" they just don't understand that while you can call your mates or son a gobshite, its best not to say the same thing to a women as they will only dwell on it and you'll never hear the end of it.
Let me elucidate a bit on the word Hallion, it is an old Irish word for “a badly behaved kid or rogue" other examples of usage include:
He’s turning into a right hallion.
When I catch that hallion.....
I'm going to tell them that I've been a rip and a hallion.
Oh, you dirty hallion.
What kind of a dirty hallion is she a'tall?".
I have to say my mummy (yep even at 33 I still call her mummy, its the irish way) called me a dirty hallion a time or two when I was young. It was normally when I had rushed in a grabbed something to eat and rushed back outside again without washing my hands.
