Slang Word Meaning Example Auld Old Person / Thing Dublin In The Rare Auld Times Gargle Alcohol/Beer He's On The Gargle Again Cocky Farmer Small Farmer For Nearly 60 Years I've Been A Cocky Delirium tremens Major Hangover   Useta Used To I Useta Love Her Once benjy Bad Smell Get Up The Yard There's A Smell Of Benjy Off Ye ballin Crying The Little Child Was Ballin Hes Eyes Out tight Mean As Tight As A Duck's Arse quare Strange He's A Quare Fella Alright Nipper Child That Nipper Is Too Young To Drink Moth Girlfriend Says I To The Mot Get Your Hand Off Me Knee Deadly Great Where Did Ye Get Them Deadly Strides Your Wearnig knackered Tired Paddy Was Knackered After Digging Muck All Day Gobshite Idiot That Gobshite Doesn't Know His Arse From His Elbow Tay Tea More Tay There Miss Hickey Topper Good Child He's A Little Topper Skint Without Money He's Skint, that's Why He Won't Get The Drink In Jacks Toilet She's In The Jacks Having A Wee Wee Jackeen A Dubliner Them Jackeens Think They Know Everthing Gawk Staring What's That Fella Gawking At ? Step it out To Dance Step It Out Mary My Fine Daughter Bog Toilet He's In The Bog Having A Slash Gas Funny We Had Great Gas At The Circus. Poled Pregnant She's Poled Again And She Only Dropped Last Month Sound Reliable Person As Sound As A Pound Slapper Woman Without Morals. Sure That Slapper Would Get Up On The Craic Of Dawn Slag Make Fun Of. He's No Sense Of Humour And Can't Take A Slagging Shag Make Love To. Any Chance Of A Shag Young One Scratcher Bed He Spends His Whole Day In The Scratcher Plastered Very Drunk I Spent All Me Dole And Got Plastered Nixer Working In Black Economy The Tax Man Caught Him Doing A Nixer Manky Dirty His Clothes Are Manky Dirty From Working. Langered Very Drunk That Fella Is Langered Every Night Of The Week Kip Not Nice Place I'm Not Going Back To That Kip Again Jar Beer. Are You Going For A Jar Horse Craic Fun/Good Time The Craic Was 90 In The Isle Of Man Hooley Drinking And Singing There's A Hooley In Mick's Gaff Tonight Porter Stout / Guinness He'd Drink Porter Out Of A Wellington Boot Culchie Person From Outside Town. Them Culchies Are Taking All The Work Bowsie An Unpleasant Man That Fella Has Being A Bowsie All His Life Black Stuff Stout Two Pints Of The Black Stuff There Barman Banjaxed Broken Me Car Is Banjaxed Beyond Repair Away With The Fairies Mad /Insane He's Away With The Fairies Since The Wife Left Him Nip Naked As Kids We Went Swimming In The Nip In The River Tolka Monto Area Of Dublin Take Me Up To Monto Amadán Fool [Danny Farrell Song] They Called Him Amadán And Fool Bogtrotter From Rural Ireland The Bogtrotter Came To Dublin To Find Work Boyo Young delinquent male That Boyo Would Rob Ye As Quick As He'd Look At Ye Gurrier Hooligan / Bad Boy [Danny Farrell Song] ''What You'd Call A Gurrier'' Horse It Into Ye Eat Food Fast Horse It Into You Cynthia Your The Girl For Me Oirish No Translation Strange language used by American to portray Irish people -Example- Top Of The Morning To Ye The Mero A Cinema In Dublin Auld Bang Bang Went Up To The Mero Sucking Diesel Doing Things The Right Way Now You're Sucking Diesel Boss Lullaby A Soothing Song Me mother used to sing An Irish Lullaby Up The Pole Pregnant That Slapper Is Up The Pole Again Hames Make A Mess Of The Barber Made A Hames Of Me Hair On The Brew On The Dole - Unemployed He Was Signing On The Brew Dashing Blade Handsome Man. The Dashing Young Balade Was Chatting Up The Girls. Shank's Mare/Pony Walking We'll Use Shank's Mare To Get Home Subbies Sub Contractors The Subbies Work For The Main Contractor Off Your Head Not Thinking Straight / insane Are ye off your head giving that drunk money ? Are Ye Carrying ? 1st meaning, Have You Money With You ? 2nd meaning, Have You A Gun With You ? Are you carrying or are you just pleased to see me ? Cute Hoor A clever / cunning person He's a cute hoor, just like the Cavan men. On The Brew On The Dole Singing On On The Scratcher In Receipt Of Unemployment Payments. That scrounger's been on the scratcher all his life . Gash Rubbish / Trash Let's throw the trash overboard. Gash is a word used on ships for rubbish that gets thrown into the sea. Ranching Chasing women Let's go ranching. A term used on board ships for chatting-up women by the crew. Airts  Scottish for directions   baith Scottish for both / 2 of us   bogle Scottish for scarecrow / ghost   guidman husband   kirk Scottish for Church   Pokes Scottish for paper bags   pibrock Scottish bagpipe music   rappee Snuff   gear Scottish and Irish slang for possessions   simmer Scottish for Summer

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