Scatter

v.

Heard in Kerry, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Limerick and Kildare

To scatter or run away quickly.

In use

The pigs are coming scatter.

Posh English

The constabulary are coming. Evacuate the vicinity at once.

Same phrase, other counties

  • SketchTo run away or scatter quickly.
  • Run-away knockA street game, where you knock at a door or ring a door bell and run away and hide…
  • Ya may run!A warning to run away quickly before one is struck or punished.
  • Up for the bahTo throw up in the air to cause a scatter and who catches it keeps it.
  • Run up me arse and pick daisiesAn emphatic expression used to tell someone to go away.
  • Away for slatesTo depart quickly and unencumbered; possibly alluding to having settled one's slate and…