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me nerves is rubbed right raw!
Newfoundland slang for being annoyed, pestered, irritated. Another way of saying "that gets on my nerves". Another way of saying "my patience is gone". It is also sometimes used as a response - instead of oh my gosh, no way, get outta here.
Mary: How are you today Donna?
Donna: The youngesters are driving me crazy!
Mary: Why, are they being annoying?
Donna: Yes, me nerves is rubbed right raw!
Mary: oh me nerves oh me nerves is gone
Donna: The youngesters are driving me crazy!
Mary: Why, are they being annoying?
Donna: Yes, me nerves is rubbed right raw!
Mary: oh me nerves oh me nerves is gone
me nerves is rubbed right raw! by The Gewfie Newfie January 20, 2011
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oh me nerves is gone
Newfoundland slang for being annoyed, pestered, irritated. Another way of saying "that gets on my nerves". Another way of saying "my patience is gone". It is also sometimes used as a response - instead of oh my gosh, no way, get outta here.
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
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Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)