A

Acting the
playing around
maggot

Ages long time

Any Use? any good?

Arse backside

Arseways complete mess (I did it all

arseways)

Artist person getting social security

(drawing the dole)
B
Babby little child - baby

Bad dose bad illness

Bag of packet of potato chips/crisps

Taytos

Bags bad, messy job (see hames)

Banjaxed broken, useless, tired

Barn brack Halloween cake

Belt hit, assault

Be wide be careful

Bird girl, girlfriend

Black crowded

Blackguard person that is doing no good

Black Stuff Guinness

Blather talk

Bloody used mostly for strengthening

an adjective

Bog toilet, restroom

country area/ piece of land that
Bog once was a lake

Bogey snot

Bogtrotter country person

Bold naughty

Bollocks stupid/somebody one doesn't

like

Bolloxed very drunk

Bolt run fast

Boozer pub

Bothrin narrow lane or road

Bouzzie, young good-for-nothing person
Bowsie

Boxin' the robbing an orchard

fox

Boyo a young person

Brasser prostitute

Brutal terrible

Bucketing raining heavily

Bushed very tired

Business excrete
C
Carry-on argument/noise

Cake-hole mouth

Cha tea

Chancer dodgy/risky character

Cheek disrespect/talk back

Cheesed Off angry/annoyed

Chinwag a chat

Chipper fish and chip shop

Chiseller young child

Class great

Clatter slap

Cod (to) joke

Colcannon Mashed potatoes & cabbage/
kale

Cop on! don't be so stupid!

Cooker stove

Covers blankets

Craic fun time

(pronounced crack)

Crisps potato chips

a city dweller's name for a

Culchie
country person

Cute hoor Untrustworthy/sly person

D
Da father

Deadly cool, great

Dear expensive

Delph crockery, cups, saucers etc

Desperate terrible

Diabolical really terrible

Diddies breasts

Divil devil

Dodder waste time

Dodgy suspect/mechanically impaired

Donkey's
a long time
Years

Dope idiot
On the Doss playing truant

Dosser lazy person

Dote cute person, usually a baby

Drawers underwear, usually ladies

Dry Shite boring person

Dummy pacifier

Dump (taking a) excrete

E
Eat the head
off Attack verbally

Eejit idiot
F
F-word used freely, mostly for
strengthening an adjective

Fag cigarette

Fair play! well done!

Feck used instead of the other F word

Fella Male person, also used for

boyfriend

Fib a lie

Fifty stood-up (I got a fifty)

Fine thing/
Attractive/good looking person
fine bit of
stuff

Fla/Flah Attractive/good looking person

Flah'ed out very tired

Flicks movies

Flitters in tatters, shabby

Fluthered very drunk

Follier-upper a serial

Foostering wasting time

Fry fried breakfast (sausage, bacon, eggs and

black & white pudding)

Full shilling mentally competent (He's not the full

shilling)
G
Gaff house

Gas funny

Gawk stare

Gee-Eyed very drunk

Get off with make out, kiss

(someone)

Gift superb

Git horrible person

Give Out scold

Gob mouth (Shut you gob!)

Gobdaw idiot

Gobshite idiot

Gobsmacked very surprised

Go-car baby's pushchair

Gollier a big, fat spit of phlegm

Gone in the mad, crazy

head

Go way indicating scepticism

outta that!

Gowl idiot

Grand fine, lovely

Guard policeman

Gurrier hooligan

Gut stomach
H
Hames mess

Hammererd very drunk

Hard Neck lack of respect

Hardchaw,
rough, tough person
Hardman

Header mad, crazy person

Head the
idiotic person
ball

the first or last slice of a loaf of

Heel
bread

Hickey a love bite

High babies senior infants' school

Holliers holidays/vacations
embarrassing exhibition
Holy show
Hooley party/celebration

Hoor prostitute

Hop playing truant from school

Horse's hoof embellished story

Hot Press drying cupboard

Howya hello- salutation

Hump, the sulking

Hump off go away, leave me alone

I
I will in me
I will not!
ring

I am in me
I am not!
wick
J
Jackeen a country person's name for
somebody that lives in Dublin

Jacks toilet, restroom

Jaded fatigued/very tired

Jammers very crowded, busy

Jammy lucky

Janey Mack! Gosh

Jar A pint

Jaysus! Jesus

Juicy pretty
K
Kip (to have a) short siesta, rest

Knackered fatiguedvery tired

Knick- ringing a doorbell and running

knacking away

Knobs breasts

Knockers breasts
L
Langers/langered drunk

Lashing raining heavily

Lay off! leave me alone, stop it!

Legging (it) running fast

Letting on pretending

Local, the the nearest pub

Locked very drunk

Lolly/ice lolly Popsicle

Low babies junior infants' school

M
Ma mother

Maggot(Stop Stop playing around!

acting the maggot)

Manky very dirty

Mary Hick old-fashioned female

Mentaller crazy person

Me ould
segotia,me Terms of endearment
ould flower

Messages shopping, groceries

Messing playing around

Milling fighting

Mitch bunk school

Mortified embarrassed
Mot girlfriend

Motherless drunk

Mouldy drunk/ rotten

Murder difficult

Mushies magic mushrooms

N
Nappy Diaper

Nickser, a job done with no tax paid on

Nixer wages

Nip nude
O
Odds loose change
Off the drink abstaining from drinking alcohol
Off your nut mad, crazy
Ole Lady/ole
mother
wan
Ole Man/ole
father
fella
On the
On Hire purchase
never never
Ossified drunk
P
Paralytic very drunk

Perishing freezing

Pictures movies

Piss in the dandelions

Beds

Pissed off angry/annoyed

Piss up a night of big drinking

Plastered very drunk

Plonker idiot

Polluted very drunk

Poteen/Poitin illegal Irish spirit/drink

Pram stroller/pushchair
Press closet, cupboard

Puck slap in the face

Pull your Get to work/get busy

socks up

Puss Face bad-tempered person

Q
Queer hawk peculiar person
R
Rapid amazing

Rashers bacon slices

Reddener blush

Red neck a country person

Reef beat up

an attractive person, to have

Ride
intercourse

Root look for

Rosie Lee tea

Rubber eraser

Ructions Loud arguing or commotion

Runners trainers, everyday sports shoes

Runs diarrhoea
S
Sap weak/fragile person

a person who constantly

Scab
borrows

the hard outer part of a healed

Scab
wound

Scallion spring onion

Scalped to get a short haircut

Scanger ignorant female

Scarlet blushing

Scatter run away from something

Scram! go away!

Scratch social security, dole

Scratcher bed
Scrawbed Scratched by fingernails

Scrubber female of low morals

Scutters diarrhoea

Shag, to to have intercourse with

Shagged fatigued/ very tired

Shattered fatigued/ very tired

Shenanagans different things going on

Shlossed very drunk

Shook Pale, ill, scared

Shorts liquor drinks (spirits) - shots

Shower of
a riotous crowd
savages

Slagging making fun of someone

Slapper female of low morals

Slash urinate
Sleeveen sly person

Snapper child, baby

Snobby Ignoring me?

Weather!

Snog, Shift to make out, kiss

Snug pub booth (usually fitting only 3/4 people)

Sound really nice

Specky Four- person who wears glasses (child's

Eyes nickname)

potatoes
Spuds

a person who tells stories to get

Squealer
another in trouble

Stop the Really?!

lights!

Stocious very drunk

Strand beach

Suckin' having a good time

diesel

Sweets candy
T
Thick stupid /unintelligent

Throwing Showing off

Shapes

Tip unclean, messy place

Tool idiot

Trap mouth

Twisted very drunk

Twistin' hay means you're starting trouble,

usually in a playful way
U
Up the pole pregnant

Up the yard! Go away!

near boiling point, ready to

Up to ninety
explode
W
Wagon ugly female

Wanker a person you don't like

Wet the tea make tea

Whist keep quiet

Wrecked tired
Y
Y-Fronts Men's briefs

Yonks a long time

Your hole to have sexual intercourse

(to get)