Hi all,
My mother remembers an Irish word she heard years ago that sounds like “krewst” (used like: “I krewst a stone at someone”).
The spelling is obviously wrong, but I’m wondering if anyone recognises the word, has heard something similar, or knows what it might actually be in Irish.
I’d love to figure it out for her.
Thanks in advance!
Crústáil - to throw
Most likely the word chrústáil. Its used it terms of throwing/pelting stones etc.
The term croosting originates from the Irish words. My Grandad would use it and we lobbing turf around.
Crústaigh is a verb Basically meaning "to pelt" as in to pelt with stones.
Crústaím means "I pelt" for example
Thank you to everyone that took time to help me. Thanks very much. She is delighted to find out the meaning.
My relations use it all the time as a phrase for throwing something. I have seen it in WhatsApp messages, written as follows, as an example: "the thing was in rag order, so I crewsted it out."
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It could be"Christ," accents vary greatly in ireland, even irish people get hard to understand some of our own accents.
In Munster dialect Irish, "I threw" might sound like that. The word for throw is Chaith and in Munster they modify verbs to mean things like "I threw".
In my dialect we would say "Chaith mé" but those southern boys make one word of it so it sounds like "Chaithas"
I’m assuming it was an Irish person speaking English from the context.
The only thing I can think of is hooshed- like you threw something at someone.
That and ‘to feck’ something at someone are the only specifically Irish phrases for throw I can think of
Try this…
https://www.learngaelic.net/dictionary/index.jsp?abairt=throw&slang=both&wholeword=false
There's no Irish word with k as the first letter
The post is phonetic to try and capture how their granny said it.
Have we forgotten Konor Kruse O'Brien so quickly?
Killian Murphy
It's Sillian Murphy
If only
Haha
It's true that Irish doesn't have many words starting with 'k,' but there are dialects and variations that might be different. it's possible they're recalling something from a regional dialect or even a misheard word