Part 1: Expressions 1) Câmere Timme = Excuse me 2) I will yeah! = No! 3) Whatâs the story fella? = how are you? 4) hows the form? = hows it it hanging? 5) You would yeah! = you wouldnât dare! 6) Here la = here you are 7) There la = its over there / look over there 8) State a him la = He looks bad 9) (Ah / Awe) now sham = thats good 10) I claim ya = I would really like to engage in a fight with you. 11) Pure = very 12) Two ****s = care 13) Couldnt give two ****s = I donât care 14) Like = this word is used at least once in every Cork sentence. eg Ah know like you understand dont ya? 15) Like eh = Used as a hesitation at the start of a sentence. 16) Nawful (hes a nawful langer) = terrible 17) Bate = beat up, used with da ****. eg Iâll bate da **** outa ya 18) have a lash off = have a go 19) lash into hash = Smoke cannabis 20) fog on = see 19 21) be wide = be careful 22) sketch = Theres someone coming (be wide) 23) Be doggy wide = Be extra careful 24) How bad boy = Good 25) Boy (pronounced- biy) = man /person. Part 2:Nouns & Verbs 26) Brasser / stella / tramp / trollup / whorebag = prostitute 27) Stella = girl who wears her hair up in bob, chews on gum, has earrings the size of hula hoops, and mostly norries (see no.73) 28) Jammy Rag = a tampon 29) Steamer / bender /queer /ass-bandit / ***got /puff / gaylord = homosexual 30) Hairy = child molester / *****phile or old person /experienced 31) Blouse = Steamer, a male with feminine traits (ya ****inâ blouse) 32) Wan / bure = female 33) Young wan = female child 34) boy / fella / feen /feeno /your man = male 35) Small fella = Male child 36) Mam / Dad / Ole Man / Ole Laid / Oul fella / Oul wan = mother/father 37) Lulla / subla / din-din / a suck / cream crackers = knackers 38) Apache = joyrider 39) salk = stolen car 40) sham = young male / hard man or knacker 41) sham-feen = macho / hard man 42) Snout / gonker /snoz = nose 43) Gib / gap / gant / gearbox /pussy / bush / muff = vagina 44) Pussy = chicken **** or ***got (see no.29) 45) Langer / langerdan = arsehole 46) Gowl (Ghoul) = stupid person 47) Gimp = ****in eejit 48) Gimpy walk = person with the mousy walk (wabbling from side to side) 49) Fifty = stood up 50) Poppies / tatties = potatoes 51) Yolkes = ecstasy 52) Duby / chatnospoof = hash 53) a nodge = a small bit of hash 54) a knock = a lump of hash of any size 55) a deal = 10 pounds worth of hash 56) a score = 20 pounds worth of hash 57) shades / law / blue bottles / pigs = Gardai 58) two-bulb / shad mo-beal (awe now feen pull a leggar) = squad car 59) law shop = Garda station 60) speedy = garda motorbike 61) gatch = walk 62) snobby **** / ***got = well-off person 63) gammy = deformed 64) jag / doing a line / jaggin / meetin a wan / with / scoring = going out with 65) gatt / lush / drink = alcoholic beverages 66) gattin / on the piss / gettin langers / pintin / on the tear = going drunkin (in a pub) 67) bushin = going drinking on the street 68) reff / reefin / mangle = beat up / beating up 69) lamp / skanse / la = look 70) droppin / wizz = need to piss 71) hangin = need a *** 72) wah / whacker = scumbag 73) norrie = person from the northside of the city 74) frame / kit = womanâs body 75) flaa = good looking girl 76) feak = see no.75 77) Is she feakin = is she ****able 78) drain the weasel / go for a slash / take a piss = urinate somewhere
Bait up Set - someone up for a downfall/ Cause disappointment or embarrassment (Yu a bait up di ting) Balance - Chill, take it easy Beat dem bad - Surpass, be better than anyone or anything else Ben - Upset, angry Big man ting - Grown up business/Honestly Big tings - Good things/Monetary success Bill - Chill, take it easy Bombaat! - Expression of awe Boom - Listen up Breathe easy - Relax, calm down Bush - Look awful Cheddar - Money Crawb up - Looking good, something good Crawful - Outrageously good Crawny - Look awful Creng - Muscular, buff Daadie - A term of address, used usually by males talking to each other (see "Paadie" below) Dat a shot/dat shot - That's fantastic (used to describe something fabulous) Deh pon a endz - Gone out (usually somewhere nice) Devo - Used to describe a challenging situation/a rough time Do yu ting - Go ahead (do your thing) Dun (see "shell dun") Dups/Doops - Friend Fish Male - homosexual Flassing - Buying drinks by the flask at parties. Fluffy - Fat, plump Frass - Frazzled/Tipsy Fulljoy - Funjoy Enjoy, enjoyment Gone Drunk - pregnant Goodaz - Hot, sexy woman or girl Goodup goodup - Genuine, good, real - usually referring to a person Gyalis - A guy who loves women/has many women Hataz - Hot, sexy woman or girl Hol' a medz/medi - Meditate, relax Ig - Vexed, upset (Don't get mi ig) Inna di morrows - See you tomorrow Level Calm down - relax Live a luu - Spoil the plan Loud up di ting - Expose someone's business Luddy - Lucky Maad - Awesome Memba mi tell yu - Listen up, take note Mi a forward - I'm coming Paadie - A term of address, used usually by males talking to each other (see "Daadie" above) Pree - Think about, examine, consider carefully Rrrhh - Expression of approval Screbe/screbs - An uncultured person Seh - one Great, wonderful, fantastic Sell off - Expression of approval (Di party sell off) Shell dun/shell dung - Do something fantastic, take by storm (Di DJ shell dun di place) Sort out Fix up - usually related to sex life (but anything can need sorting out - hair, clothes, complexion, finances) Steppers/Hot Steppers - Chicken foot soup Tek - Fabulous (It tek!) Tink - Look awful To di worl - Expression of approval Tun up - Wonderful, great Yu done - know You understand Yu swag tun up - You're looking great Zeen? - You understand me?(whereas "Oh, zeen" means "oh, yes")
Up here they say "Aol hannlin".....Supposed to mean "A whole handling" to denote being something particularly onerous. I annunciate it all and they try and correct me...... Never gonna happen.
