Gaelic spelling?

[aidantraffor]

Does anyone know the correct Gaelic spelling for "pug mahoi" {kiss my arse} and does anyone remember Desperate Dan from the Beano shouting it whilst tossing the caber, or am I fantasising?

[coinman]

spelling pog mo thoin
cant remember dan saying it though!

[aidantraffor]

Thanks Coinman, I think it was around 1962ish! I remember reading it out aloud from the comic & my Dad clouting me on the head for swearing!
He recalled the incident on his deathbed 40 years later & only then did he tell me what I'd said!

[ali_alic]

How is it pronounced? Sounds like a good drinking toast to me!!

[jno]

the Pogue Mahones group take their name therefrom, so I guess that's one way of spelling it. I imagine anyone trying to smuggle that into the Beano would have been executed; they were a conservative lot up there in Dundee.

[heathfield]

Conservative? Apparently they scrapped a whole magazine issue after printing it, because they found it contained the word 'penis'

[Trotbot]

Desperate Dan was in the Dandy

[tomtech]

there is a bar in prai da rocha called pogue mahones and they explained it meant kiss my arse.

[McHaggisUK]

It is indeed Pogue Mahone...... thus explaining names of bands like The Pogues and The Family Mahone!

[aidantraffor]

Thanks trotbot, you'r right!
And thanks to everyone else for your kind help, I'll die a happy man now!

[Whickerman]

P�g = kiss
mo = my
h�in = ass.

Three words. The word Pogue is an anglicised version. (But in fairness, it's pronounced pogue muhone.)

[claguey]

I did chuckle when I read the answers as I remember Sister Mary Agnes an Irish Nun and our RE teacher at High School, doing a very good charade to explain what she had written on the board for us 'cos she wouldn't explain in English what it meant! Bless her and Pog Mo Hoin!