Just a thought about that word of the day you posted, a Bhríd. It sounds like a city insult for country people ("country-ish"), at least in origin. The word tuath(a) comes from an old Indo-European root meaning "tribe" or (in some languages ) "people" (the German "teutsch/deutsch/teuto- is cognate, i.e. from the same source), and the Irish faoin tuath ("in the country") probably comes from the days when city people thought of those people outside the town as being a bunch of wild, uncivilized tribes (like the tribes of Galway?), so it was probably meant originally as "[out] among the tribes", rather than "in the country".

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We were wild in Galway alright.
On the city wall in Galway they had this inscription -"From the Ferocious O Flaherty's O Lord deliver us".

Probably like the American "rednecks" or "hicks".


But I had the wrong spelling like Breandán said, it's really "tútach". I don't know if that word has the same origin.

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Yes, I see that FGB has tútach as meaning "crude". It would be interesting to know its etymology, though. With a silent "th", one could imagine "tuathtach" turning into tútach. Just a thought.

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I think you are correct, a Chaoimhín.

My thoughts were along the lines of tuathtach => tuatach => tútach also, though I am only supposing.

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

When I was living in Scotland I often heard the word Teuchter (chookter) used the same way the Dubs use Culshie, so maybe that is also related to this.

That's really interesting, Chucky. There are a number of theories about the origin of the word teuchter, which is also an insult referring to a Gaelic speaker, but I've never seen yours before, and it sounds like a very viable one.

I always wondered whether teuchter might come from some expression using the word uachdar ("top" or "upper part") as a reference to the Highlands or a Highlander -- perhaps an expression with the genitive form an t-uachdar in it. The "u" sound isn't right for the way that teuchter is pronounced now in Scotland, but it could have changed once the slang term passed into English.

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