Tae

n.

Heard in Donegal, Fermanagh and Carlow

The Hiberno-English pronunciation of tea.

In use

Mine me te get tae bags or me mother will have me head!

Posh English

Pray remind me to acquire the tea bags or my mother shall have my head upon a spike.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Tae bagA tea bag, that is to say the small porous sachet of leaves one steeps to make a cup of…
  • Wake aul taeExtremely weak, watery tea that has barely seen a tea bag.
  • TayTea as pronounced by the Irish, comes from the Gaelic word tae, pronounced tay.
  • Wet the teaTo brew or prepare a pot of tea.
  • Amn'tThe standard Hiberno-English contraction for am not.
  • YePlural of the word 'you', because saying 'you' when you mean 'the plural of you' is…