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A

  • Acting the maggot playing around
  • Ages long time
  • Any Use? any good?
  • Arse backside
  • Arseways complete mess (I did it all arseways)

B

  • Babby little child - baby
  • Bad dose bad illness
  • Bag of Taytos packet of potato chips/crisps
  • 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
  • Bog country area/ piece of land that 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, Bowsie young good-for-nothing person
  • Boxin' the fox robbing an orchard
  • Boyo a young person
  • Brasser prostitute
  • Brutal terrible
  • Bucketing raining heavily
  • Bushed very tired

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 (pronounced crack) fun time
  • Crisps potato chips
  • Culchie a city dweller's name for a 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 Years a long time
  • 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

E

  • Eat the head off Attack verbally
  • Eejit idiot

F

  • 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/fine bit of stuff Attractive/good looking person
  • 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 (someone) make out, kiss
  • 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 head mad, crazy
  • Go way outta that! indicating scepticism
  • Gowl idiot
  • Grand fine, lovely
  • Guard policeman
  • Gurrier hooligan
  • Gut stomach

H

  • Hames mess
  • Hammererd very drunk
  • Hard Neck lack of respect
  • Hardchaw, Hardman rough, tough person
  • Header mad, crazy person
  • Head the ball idiotic person
  • Heel the first or last slice of a loaf of bread
  • Hickey a love bite
  • High babies senior infants' school
  • Holliers holidays/vacations
  • Holy show embarrassing exhibition
  • 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 ring I will not!
  • I am in me wick I am not!

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-knacking ringing a doorbell and running away

L

  • Langers/langered drunk
  • Lashing raining heavily
  • Lay off! leave me alone, stop it!
  • Legging (it) running fast
  • Letting on pretending
  • Lolly/ice lolly Popsicle
  • Low babies junior infants' school

M

  • Ma mother
  • Maggot(Stop acting the maggot) Stop playing around!
  • Manky very dirty
  • Mary Hick old-fashioned female
  • Mentaller crazy person
  • Me ould segotia, me ould flower Terms of endearment
  • 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, Nixer a job done with no tax paid on wages
  • Nip nude

O

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

P

  • Paralytic very drunk
  • Perishing freezing
  • Pictures movies
  • Piss in the Beds dandelions
  • 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 socks up Get to work/get busy
  • 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
  • Ride an attractive person, to have 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
  • Scab a person who constantly borrows
  • Scab the hard outer part of a healed 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 savages a riotous crowd
  • Slagging making fun of someone
  • Slapper female of low morals
  • Slash urinate
  • Sleeveen sly person
  • Snapper child, baby
  • Snobby Weather! Ignoring me?
  • Snog, Shift to make out, kiss
  • Snug pub booth (usually fitting only 3/4 people)
  • Sound really nice
  • Specky Four-Eyes person who wears glasses (child's nickname)
  • Spuds potatoes
  • Squealer a person who tells stories to get another in trouble
  • Stop the lights! Really?!
  • Stocious very drunk
  • Strand beach
  • Suckin' diesel having a good time
  • Sweets candy

T

  • Thick stupid /unintelligent
  • Throwing Shapes Showing off
  • 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!
  • Up to ninety near boiling point, ready to explode

V

W

  • Wagon -ugly female
  • Wet the tea make tea
  • Whist keep quiet
  • Wrecked tired

Y

  • Y-Fronts Men's briefs
  • Yonks a long time