Hate

n.

Heard in Offaly and Tipperary

Heat, warmth, or thermal radiation.

In use

Dere's mighty hate comin' off dose radiahors la!

Posh English

There is tremendous thermal energy radiating from those heating apparatuses.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Dam a hateA response meaning there is no news or nothing happening.
  • Divil de hateNone at all. Not a bit.
  • Hate from the bogPeat or turf for the fire. The phrase has no connection whatsoever to racism.
  • Hate thatAn expression of sympathy meaning one would not like to be in that situation.
  • Hate that bally showerMild disapproval of one's neighbours or a certain group of locals.
  • Not a hateNot a bit, nothing at all.