A

Acting the maggot

playing around

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)

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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

Business

excrete

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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

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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

Dump (taking a)

excrete

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Eat the head off

Attack verbally

Eejit

idiot

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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/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)

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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

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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

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I will in me ring

I will not!

I am in me wick

I am not!

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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

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Kip, to have a

short siesta, rest

Knackered

fatiguedvery tired

Knick-knacking

ringing a doorbell and running away

Knobs

breasts

Knockers

breasts

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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

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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

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Nappy

Diaper

Nickser, Nixer

a job done with no tax paid on wages

Nip

nude

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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

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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

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Queer hawk

peculiar person

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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

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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

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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

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Up the pole

pregnant

Up the yard!

Go away!

Up to ninety

near boiling point, ready to explode

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Wagon

ugly female

Wanker

a person you don't like

Wet the tea

make tea

Whist

keep quiet

Wrecked

tired

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Y-Fronts

Men's briefs

Yonks

a long time

Your hole (to get)

to have sexual intercourse