Vulgar Irish Greeting between 2 Women?

Factual Questions
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I’m going on information that I got from a conversation I had in a bar several months ago, so it’s certainly possible that the information I have to provide for my fellow Dopers to answer is not complete enough or, perhaps, pure gibberish.

I was in the (American) bar talking to one Irish woman when another Irish woman joined us. The first greeted the second with the phrase:

“How’s your <Funny Irish Word>?”

I was told that <Funny Irish Word> means “vagina”, and that the greeting is generally only used between two women who are having fun at being vulgar with each other.

First of all, what is the missing <Funny Irish Word>?

And did they give me an accurate explanation of the definition and the use of the phrase, or were they just having a bit of fun with a guy in a bar who they knew wouldn’t know any better?

(My fuzzy memory tells me the word was something like “Ghee” [sp?])

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It would indeed be “gee”.

I’ve never personally heard this greeting, and I’d speculate that your second explanation is right: they were doing this for fun due to nobody understanding what “gee” means.

What fun we have in Indian restaurants… But pity the poor fella called Ulick Magee.

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Thanks, jjimm!
At least I got the word right. I’m still gonna check back to this Thread to see if anyone posts having actually heardthe greeting. Maybe it is just a personal joke between these two friends that I met. (They’ve known each other since childhood, it’s quite possible they have many private “in-jokes” that mean nothing to other people.)

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Heh, my friends band had a great song which contained the following line in the chorus: Tabhair dom gi Roughly translated it means Give me your …um, gi :slight_smile:

They also do a version of Black Velvet Band that is hilarious, a sample line:

“…She wore no Knickers, no none at all! But around her shoulders was a Bleck Velvet Band”!

Good times, good times.

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Or his sister Ruth.

As to the greeting isn’t a normal one but one I could easily see being used by friends as a greeting that grew from a single incident in the past to a running thing.

Similarly my Uncle generally greets my mother with a “Howaya cuntface” as he knows it really annoys her (in a jokey way, she does mock shock every time). This goes back to her not enjoying a joke which contained the term cuntface in it.
We are quite a vulgar lot in general. Swearing is way more socially acceptable here, not in work but outside people swear a lot in general.

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Well, some guys ask “how’s it hangin’?”

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Yes, but I have gotten some very odd looks by answering that with “Left.”

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Or their brothers Pat and Pearse.

9

Last I heard, he’d changed his name to Phil McRack.

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Or their dad, Pop!

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People in my office swear like nobody’s business. In meetings and everything. Feck this and feck that and sometimes we even use the f-word.

BTW, bienville, next time you hear these girls using the greeting, ask them if they’re not going to ask how your langer is. Or your mickey.