Post by Woody on May 8, 2006 9:23:51 GMT -5
A 3m A young male who`s only care`s are his ma, his moth and his moustache
A bad egg A dodgy bloke or a troublemaker
A bucket of Snots A ugly person
Adam and Eve it I don't believe it!!
A Dig in the Gob As in D'ye want a dig in the gob or wha? Does one want a punch in the mouth or what?
A Fraertd A frayed/scared (Viking spelling? - ED)
A head like Paul Ash An old saying. Paul Ash was apparently a bad bare knuckle boxer.
A kick in the mebbs Means a kick in the privates
A wreck the head Someone who drives u mad.
AJH A Jaysus Howya," refers to someone usually from the inner city
All roight bud Hello to someone whos name you cant think of usually everyone !!!
Alright Man! Typical salutation used by a young Dubliner...
Anto Commonly used to refer to a silkey (an individual of either inner-city or Dublin corporation estate origin, with a liking for acrylic track suits)
Any odds Means have you got a spare smoke or some change
Any odds Means any spare change usually 'gis your odds'
Apple Tart Fart - sorry but there's no nice way to say it.
Are ya comin' across? Are you sexually active?
Are you wide? Are you aware?
Arthur Scargill or just Arthur Gargle - to go out drinking
Ask me bollix! Definition please? (I know it's sort of obvious but we need the sender's definition. ED)
Ask me bollix Don't ask me ya spa
Ask me bollix Having asked someone for something that the person is highly unlikely to give away one would be told, disparagingly "ask me bollix"
Ask me pipe Same as ask me arse
Auld Boy Father
Aul'fella Father
Aul'wan Mother
Auld Wan An old woman or someone behaving like an 'auld wan'
Axe me left one Similar to "axe me bollix" or "axe me sack", but can also be used by females due to "left one" reference.
Axe me sack Direct your questions towards my scrotum.
B
Backer To become passenger on bicycle in either the crossbar or seated position
Back door bandit Someone who is not straight
Baco Shortened version of tobacco, as can commonly be heard around Henry St.
Bailer See Leg it. May originate from Skipping bail.
Baloonhead See Eejit
Bamboozle A plan/scheme. (Mmmmmm. ED)
Ballhopper Garda (Copper)
Ballygobackwards Any small town in Bogland that somebody from Dublin probably has not heard of. Ususlly "I was bleedin stuck in Ballygobackwards for hours after the jammer broke down".
Ballyer Suburb in dublin named Ballyfermot
Ballymegash Hash
Ballymunners Runners (As for of shoes, presumably)
Bananits Long yellow skinned fruit sold by wans in Dublin markets. Usually sold alongside Strawbreenes.
Bandjaxed Broken, useless, tired
Bang Unpleasant odour. "D'ya get de bang off yer wan?"
Baps Check the Baps on Her!!!
Barney Dillons Shillin's, sheckels, moolah, money
Barney Rubble Trouble
Barry White A shite
Basement Jaxx Downstairs toilet
Bate I will bate your head in
Battle Cruiser Boozer otherwise known as pub
Battor Borger Appear to be a marriage of a beef patty, unknown pale gristly nodules and yesterday's fish batter. Complimented with a bottle of Lucozade
Be-jay-sis 2nite For fuck sake
Beamer To be embarrased - See Redner
Beaver Leaver He who prefers men to women, if you know wha' Oi Meeean?
Beef News
Bells Time. eg 10 Bells (10 o'clock)
Be L.O. Keep a look out
Benjy Bad smell. As in "Ara for Jaysus sake... head the ball hums like Benjy". See also Get up the yard
Berco As in mad, or absolutely rotten drunk
Bifter Joint', as in "roll a bifter"
Bill Murray Curry
Bills Pounds
Billy berko To go balistic or crazy
Bin lids Kids
Bingo wings Flabby underarms on a wan
Bird Girlfriend
Bizzies The Garda, "hide that bifter, heres the bizzies". (Is this not a scouse term? ED)
Black Mariah Garda van, Police van
Black Stuff Guinness
Blagged ya ourra it I seem to have gotten the better of you
Bleedin' Word commonly used for emphasis on something,eg. that was bleedin' terrible as opposed to really terrible....
Bleedener Another word for idiot, as in "Yer a bleedener"
Bleedin dope one who lacks intelligence
Blonde in a black skirt A pint of Guinness
Blue Peter 2 litre of cider
Bluey As in Taking a bluey. Temper Tantrum also known as A ginnier (ginny....r)
Blue eyes Nickname for someone who is crosseyed, 1 blew east and 1 blew west
Bobble To walk or to move somewhere.
Bob If a girl sees a good looking man,she can say that he is a "bob" or that she would "give him a few bob",meaning she would like to have intimate relations with him.
Bog Warrior Culchie
Bog ball A derogatory name for gaelic football
Bogger/Bog warrior An Individual hailing from outside Dublin, but within Ireland
Bogey Not good, dodgy
Bogland Anywhere outside of Dublin, but within Ireland. Boggers live there.
Bollix Pronounced bolleeks. Source is obvious. Use: 'he's a bollix'; 'ask me bollix'.
Bolloxchops As in when a taxi driver goes by with his light on and passengers in the cab you say "TURN YOUR LIGHT OFF BOLLOXCHOPS"!
Bo-jangled Absolutely hammered drunk
Bottle Of Water Your Daughter
Bottler Blue light on top of an emergency service vehicle
Boxed Off Meaning sorted, done and dusted
Box the fox Rob an orchard
Bowler A dog, esp a small scruffy terrier of a dog
Bowler A term that describes a very unattractive Girl / Lady, usually used when trying to describe the girl friend of a friend or colleague
Bradleys Means underarms, derives from Brad Pitt's - armpits - bradleys!
Brad Pitt Shit
Brasser Old military name for a streetwalker in Sackville Street May come from the old Lancashire saying that where there's muck there's brass{money}
Brazzer Prostitute/Whore
Brend Frickers.... As in knickers (rhymes with frickers) (Should this be Brenda? - ED)
Brown Bread Dead
Buffty (Not sure of the exact spelling) Another word for a homosexual man, i.e. George Michael is a buffty (or a buffty boy)
Bugle Erection
Buke Dublinese for Book, varied uses such as Skule Book.
Bull and cow A row,a fight
Bunce "Are we doin' a bunce?" "Are we pooling our financial resources for the drink?"
Bum As in "can I bum a smoke of ye boss"
Bunched A catch-all word for tired, broken, useless etc
Bunk See On the hop
Burst Threat of physical harm as in "I'll fe****g burst ye, ye leary bollix ye"
Butt-stroke When a skanger gives u a mixture of a butt and stroke with his head. also known as a tooth-chipper
Butt's on ya Can I have the last 3rd of your cigarette
Buzzin "Ii'm only buzzin off ye" I'm jokin with you
C
Cabbage Meaning someone acting stupid
Cacks Trousers or underwear
Caked Meaning to be very tired
Can of piss See gobshite
Cant the ball Lose the ball over a garden wall
Cat Really bad as in "that's cat"
Cetch Meaning to catch!
Charlo Young knacker usually behind the wheel of honda civic with trademark baseball cap
Check out the carry cots on her boat race!! Check out the spots on her face!!
Chevy Chase Face
Chimin!! Means someone who thinks they're great!
Chicken's Neck Cheque
Chisler Child (Boy, more likely - ED)
Christian Slater Rhyming slang for "Later". Associated with the U.S. movie star of same name.
Claimed As in "you're claimed!" (I'm about to beat you up)
Clip Knock or belt, as in "I'll give ye a good clip 'round the ear if you don't do as yer told."
Cock-block Trying to prevent a friend from scoring a bird
Coddle As Dublin as it gets
Cool the jets Meaning relax, slow down.
Coppertop/ coppernob Gingerhaired person
Copshop Garda station
Corking the bottle Nice way to describe sexual intercourse
Corks Term used by some children instead of #2
Corner Boy Upstart
Corner Boy Corner boy is not an upstart. It is an old Dublin for the layabouts who used to hang around the corners of the streets doing nothing.It was a derogatory term.
Cousint Cousin
Cream Cracker A derogatory rhyming slang word for a Traveller based on Knacker
Cream cracker Also known as a creamer
Craic Or the crack. As in 'what's the crack?'. (This needs a bigger definition. ED)
Craic You wanted a more definiate meaning, well in Dublin it means good company, good jokes and good times in the pub/disco.
Crips King crisps
Culchie Disparaging name for someone from outside Dublin.
D
D4 head A person from the Dublin 4 area (wealthy southsiders), they have a vocab of their own likely to include "the dualer" meaning the Stillorgan dual carriageway. These type of people are also likely to say "moby" for mobile phone, "such a mare!" for nightmare and "I soo need a heiny" meaning I am in need of a Heineken.
Da Your father
Dairies Crude reference to a woman`s breasts
Dak Cigarette
Dak Smoke, going for a smoke
De leshur' The local bowling-alley/games-emporium and source of employment. A home from home. "yew workin' dowan de leshur' naow?"
Deadly Meaning brilliant
Deadly Meaning really great
Dialled Finished, understood, sorted
Dickie Diver A fiver/five pound! Fiver
Dig in the grave Shave
Dinky Meaning tiny or small
Dirtbird Pervert
Disco Biscuits Drugs, specifically methylenedioxymethylamphetamine or E's
Do ya the Gee? Asking girl does she have sex
Do be/Does be As in "We do be here every night and yer wan does be always locked outta her gimp."
Dog and bone Phone
Dog's bollocks The best
Dogsvommit Don't know, me Da used to use it. (Well, what was the context? ED)
Don't be Bogart'in Pass the joint
Don`t get your knickers in a knot Meaning young one don`t get upset.
Dosser Lazy chancer
.com See ya later (You're making that up. ED)
Doubleing Dublin
Doxie, doxy Girlfriend
Drain da snake Have a piss
Drifty Any homeless individual
Drink link ATM, cash machine
"D'tides goin' ou'" Usually when someone is slow to buy his round. "It's your round!" or, "Get the bleedin' gargle in"
Dublin coddle Boiled sausages and spuds
Eejit Idiot.
Ecker Homework
Ekker Have you got any Homework from school?
Elephants Means drunk
Empty Fork A Girl wearing Trousers in the old days
Epp O' As in my missus will take an epp O' if she finds out!
Europes Euro Currency. Recently heard on Moore Street so is as genuine
F
Fair Play As made famous by our very own Ronan Keating - mean Fair Play (obviously). Means "well done" as in fair play to yer man, he drank 20 pints.
Fambly Your ma, da, brothers and sisters
Feak To French kiss someone i.e., "I feaked yer wan last night, man"
Feck Cunningly non-profane version of the word Fuck. Poularized on the Channel 4 TV Comedy Father Ted.
Feck off Get lost
Fellet a.k.a. Fella, boyfriend, bloke, chap, significant other.
Few sambo's short of a picnic Insane
Fiddle & Jig a.k.a. Thingymajig, Syrup (of Figs)or plain and simple WIG (as in hairpiece).
Fiend Extremely filthy indiviual
Flitters To have an upset stomach etc. as a result of alcoholic overindulgence
Floosie A loose woman.
Foxy Gingerhaired (see coppertop/coppernob)
Funkin' The smell of ya, your'e funkin!
Furry Pits Chick that has not shaved under arm hair
G
Gank Disgusting or Abhorrent
Gas Funny "Isn't yer man gas, all the same"
Gaff Your house
Game ball Meaning I'm OK ie "How ye doin' Jacko"?? "Ah, game ball"
Gargle Meaning alcohol. Other words include 'a few scoops' 'bevys'.
Gasman Funny bloke
Gee Female genitalia
Gee bag A really dislikable female
Geebag See slapper
Gee-eyed Drunk
Ger outta dat garden! Stop messin
Get off the box Cut the crap
Get off the stage Again, it bears similarites to "Get up the yard", but the closest English translation would be "Stop showing off"
Get out o' that garden Would you ever cop on
'Get the boat' Not a chance
Get up the yard Is most likely a naval term referring to the yardarm of a sailing ship. For true Dublinese the term should be followed by "there's a smell of bengy riordan of ya", Benjy Riordan being the architypal culchie from the tv series The Riordans
Get up the yard there's a smell of Benjy Riordan off ya Decidedly Dublinese. However, I beleive "up the yard" is a nautical reference from "yardarm"
Get up de yard, there's a smell of hay off ya A little dig at our country cousins and would be used when someone fcuked up.
Gick Meaning a big waffle/lie/not true
Gick What comes out the gicker
Gicker Your bum [up the gicker (no man quicker)]
Gickna Someone from the inner city, wears a tracksuit and walks like pidgeon
Gift See deadly
Gikna or gicna Old Dublin word for a pigeon (a popular hobby years ago.
Gingernut Redheaded person
Ginnyer Ginny Joe, a dummy or mongo with little or no mental awareness
Gino Genelli Means Belly - Stomach
Gis a drag Can I have some of your cigarette
Gis a go a ye! Let me have a go. (I thought it was something more colourful. Ed.)
Give a backer Give someone a lift on the back of a bicycle
Giv 'm a burner To bore someone with meaningless conversation.
Give us a Ware Give us a kiss
Give us a decko Let me see
Give us a gawk Let's have a look
Givertz Meaning Can I have... (e.g. "Givertz a package of crips")
Giz a crosser, skin Give me a lift on the crossbar of your bike, young man
Giz A Drag 3 x pulls of a fag
Giz a go ya Have sex
Giz a gook Give me a look, let me see, as in 'Giz a gook at the TV page'
Giz a shot Can I have a go.."giz a shot of that"
Gobaloon Idiot or eejit
Gob-daw Foolish character
Gobshite A stupid person.
God gerat me patience God grant me patience, usually spouted out by angry mothers to disobedient chislers.
Goose "Is she good for the goose?" or does she have sex
?
Gotchie A gotchie is not a foreman on a building site as mentioned but a security man / park ranger or some such. Probably derives from the rural expression "got ye" as many of these individuals would have been retired guards thence culchies
Going Ester Ranzen Going dancing
Going to shake hands with the unemployed A statement to friends when you are off to take a piss!
Go on the gur Leave home without you're parents consent to sleep in the rough. Usually returned home by the Garda.
Gom (Rhymes with the ROM in CD-ROM) and Mug: 2 separate words meaning someone who's not the full shilling
Goodluckski Means - yeah right you will (as spoken from an immigrants point of view, take on the Russian language that everything ends in ski)
Goonyaboyya Well done..good job..good win on a horse
Gothcie Foreman of a building site
Gouger A Dublin character who tries to pull one over you as in "y'er man's a right gouger"
Goverment artist An unemployed person
Graham Gooch Rhyming slang for On the Mooch
Grand Meaning good or that's fine or everything's alright
Gregory Pecks Specs
Gregory Peck See chicken's neck
Grushy or Gushy At a Dublin wedding, it is customary for the best man to throw small change to the kids on the street. This custom is call grushy or gushy
Gullier Extra large marble
Gullier Rather large amount of phelm
Gunther Someone who makes a balls of something - as in "he's a gunthered" or "I gunthered that job..."
Gurrier Any example of a scruffy young boy or hooligan, trouble maker
Gutter snipe Lowlife
GwawkGwah See scrubber
H
Hairy Molly The black fuzzy caterpillars of the Cabbage White butterfly.
Hambone Incompetent worker
Ham Shank The sin of Onan. As in "If yer kippin' in me scratcher, no ham shankin', d'ye hear me?"
Hang and chaze sangich Ham and cheese sandwich
Hank & Lee Hungry as in Hank and Lee Marvin
Hard Chaw Bloke who thinks he's tough
Hard chaw Hard jaw =can take a punch (boxing slang).
Hardcore Somone who knows the score- as in he's f****n hardcore
Harry Joe Bailer See Bailer
Hatstand See Toaster
Having the ride Meaning making love
Hauh? Meant to be what
He wouldn't giv ye de steam off his piss! He's a mean or stingy person
Head like a jockeys bollix Hardheaded
Head the ball He's mental...comes from heading balls too much in football!
Head The Ball Your Man
Heart o' the rowl [Heart of the roll] - The very best, from the time when tobacco was sold from a roll. The center, or heart, of the roll was the juciest, best part.
He'd peel an orange in his pocka "He's a mean fellow"
Hellacioust Dunnno how to spell it but it means severe used with whuppin - "ye'll get a hellacioust whuppin"
Henry Means an eight of coke (Henry the 8th)
Here, Gizza Smoke! Do you want a fight?
Hidious Meaning damn ugly
Hit and Miss Rhymes with piss - #1 - wee or pee.
Hit and miss Havin' a piss!
Hiya Hello
Hole As in "I got me hole last night"
Holy show To make a spectacle of yourself
Hoop Arse - "look at the Hoop on her"
Hoor Literally whore but can be affectionate or admiring, even grudgingly admiring as in 'cute hoor'
Hoor's knickers A mess, as in "yer wan over there looks like a total hoor's knickers"
Hoor's melt Someone you despise
Hornswadle To steal
Horse How's it going, "storee horse"
Horse As in 'what are ye up t' horse, ye bleedin sucker'
Horse box Fat & bulkey bloke
Horsenuts Means big balls
Howl Pronounced Howel - comedian or very funny person as in "Jayzus yer mans' a howl"
How's the body? How's it going?
How's the form? How are you?
How's it hanging? How are you doing?
How many are ye? How old are ye?
HOWYA (all in caps) Is HELLO magazine
Howya (n) Someone from the suburbs, not an AJH
Howya Hello
Hum Smell, usually bad but sometimes neutral. As in "Did you get the hum off him? It was gank." or "There's a weird hum off that."
I
I could eat a dog's bollox through a tennis racket! I am really hungry
I'd ate yer hand! "I'm rather peckish!"
I need to splash me boots Use the bathroom
I suppose an R is out of the Q I suppose a ride is out of the question much asked question after consumption of too much skinnymalink
I'd eat the leg off the Lamb of God Starving with the hunger
I'm Lee Marvin Starving, hungry
I'm only buzzin' wit ya I am only pulling your leg
I'm only coddin Only joking
I'm only hairdressing Messing, joking around, acting the clown
I'm outta me box Drunk, stoned
In a jocker In bits, rag order, in a bad shape
In me arse A refusal to co-operate: 'I will in me arse'.
In ribbons Ugly. As in "Jayzus, that yun'wan's skin and blister is in ribbons!"
In tats/in tatters Ugly. As in "Jayzus, that yun'wan is in tats!"
Is she good for the sauce? Is she sexually active?
J
Jack Dee Another nickname for Es
Jackanory Story. What`s the Jackanory.What's happening
Jack - jackeen Dubliner
Jack/Jackeen Disparaging name for a Dubliner based on the waving of Union Jacks during a visit of Queen Victoria.
Jack Palancing Dancing
Jack Russells Look at the Jack Russells on your man - (hasn't he got fine muscles!)
Jam jar Car
Janey mac or gorney mac An expression of surprise similiar to "oh golly" this one goes back a bit, janey and gorney were two Dublin sisters but I'm not sure what they did that resulted in this use of their names
Janey Mack Ah Feck
Janeymack! Confused suprise. Like saying, "oh shite!"
Jant To obtain a lift on somebodys bicycle,car,truck etc.. "Here Micko, giz a jant down the shops will ye"
Jax/Jacks Toilet; as in: I'm off to the jax, see yiz later
Jayzus! Blasphemous expletive in common use
Ja' want your snot broke? Do you want a fight?
Jelly tot Moth ie. your burd i.e d ball 'n chain ie your girlfriend
Jesus Mary and Joseph suffering F**k! See Sweet Lamb-a Jaysus!
Je-Want-Yer-Go Do you want to fight me?
Jeyes Fluid Nude. I was in me Jayes Fluid.
J.H or Jaysus howiyi Some little knacker sporting a shiny tracksuit and 20 earrings (and a baby at 14)
Jileys Travellers. See 'knackers'
Jinny Joe/ Jimminy Joe The airborne seeds of Piss-in-the-Beds (Dandalions). Contain a wish, allegedly
Jimmy Riddle Rhymes with Piddle - #1 - wee-wee - pee.
Jimmy Savaged To be cabbaged - To be stoned
Jockey or Speedy Garda on Motorbike
Jocks Underpants. Also bags, underjocks or trolleys.
Joe Maxi Taxi
Joe Roofer As in spoofer - someone who tells lies!
Joe Skinner Your Dinner
Johnner Any bogey character e.g 40 coats
Johnnies Come in either Player Blue, contraceptive or Onion Ring varieties
John-Paul Common name of a Dublin thug.
Jo Maxi Taxi
Jolliers Travellers
Judy Old word used in the 40s and 50s for your girlfriend very like Ali Gs Julie (Huh? ED)
Jumbo Joint....."Are you spliffing up a jumbo"
Kangaroo Thankin' you
Kilt Killed
Kip Going for a kip (sleep)
Kip This place is a kip (in a mess)
Klackers Breasts ie. look at the klackers on her
Knackeragua Rough area
Knackered Tired
Knackers Means balls
Knacker-drinking The practise of drinking cider or warm lager al fresco. Stems from the fact that knackers choose to do their socializing outdoors as many pubs refuse them entry.
Knight Rider Cider
Knob-end Similar to dickhead
Knobhead As u may have guessed it means dickhead "ye bleedin knobhead"
Know 'wa I mean Common phrase used at the end of most scentences...
L
Lamb a Jaysus\Fuck To express disgust at anothers actions. As in "lamb a fuck Johno, hold the ball up will ya"
Lamb Chops Sideburns with a distinctive shape
Lamp Having several meanings, to strike someone, to give a someone a good "lampin'", or to be "lampey" drunk.
Langer It's not a Dublin word it's a Cork word and it's the best word in the world. It can be applied to almost anything, drunk, your penis, a person that you dislike and many more. (Maybe I shouldn't be putting Cork words into a Dublin dictionary, hmp? ED)
Langered Drunk
Laugh and a joke Having a smoke
Leet'l (adj.) North Wicklow slang for something/someone that is vint or a legend. (This is Dublin Dictionary! ED)
Legger, Do a Run away, usually from something bad. Alt. version of Leg it
Leg it To take off running
Leg it To run away very fast
Let one rip Meaning to fart loudly
Lettin' on Only kiddin'
Lids Pounds
Lights are on but nobody's home Not alright in the head, mad like
Loaf, to loaf so A headbutt, to headbutt so
Lockard Those gentlemen in peaked caps who appear when you are attempting to reverse into a parking spot and entreat you to "Lock 'ard mister, lock 'ard". Cf. Monback (What does Cf mean? - ED)
Locked Extremely pissed
Locked Drunk as a fiddlers bitch
Lou Reid Speed
Low fat bacon Trainee garda
A bad egg A dodgy bloke or a troublemaker
A bucket of Snots A ugly person
Adam and Eve it I don't believe it!!
A Dig in the Gob As in D'ye want a dig in the gob or wha? Does one want a punch in the mouth or what?
A Fraertd A frayed/scared (Viking spelling? - ED)
A head like Paul Ash An old saying. Paul Ash was apparently a bad bare knuckle boxer.
A kick in the mebbs Means a kick in the privates
A wreck the head Someone who drives u mad.
AJH A Jaysus Howya," refers to someone usually from the inner city
All roight bud Hello to someone whos name you cant think of usually everyone !!!
Alright Man! Typical salutation used by a young Dubliner...
Anto Commonly used to refer to a silkey (an individual of either inner-city or Dublin corporation estate origin, with a liking for acrylic track suits)
Any odds Means have you got a spare smoke or some change
Any odds Means any spare change usually 'gis your odds'
Apple Tart Fart - sorry but there's no nice way to say it.
Are ya comin' across? Are you sexually active?
Are you wide? Are you aware?
Arthur Scargill or just Arthur Gargle - to go out drinking
Ask me bollix! Definition please? (I know it's sort of obvious but we need the sender's definition. ED)
Ask me bollix Don't ask me ya spa
Ask me bollix Having asked someone for something that the person is highly unlikely to give away one would be told, disparagingly "ask me bollix"
Ask me pipe Same as ask me arse
Auld Boy Father
Aul'fella Father
Aul'wan Mother
Auld Wan An old woman or someone behaving like an 'auld wan'
Axe me left one Similar to "axe me bollix" or "axe me sack", but can also be used by females due to "left one" reference.
Axe me sack Direct your questions towards my scrotum.
B
Backer To become passenger on bicycle in either the crossbar or seated position
Back door bandit Someone who is not straight
Baco Shortened version of tobacco, as can commonly be heard around Henry St.
Bailer See Leg it. May originate from Skipping bail.
Baloonhead See Eejit
Bamboozle A plan/scheme. (Mmmmmm. ED)
Ballhopper Garda (Copper)
Ballygobackwards Any small town in Bogland that somebody from Dublin probably has not heard of. Ususlly "I was bleedin stuck in Ballygobackwards for hours after the jammer broke down".
Ballyer Suburb in dublin named Ballyfermot
Ballymegash Hash
Ballymunners Runners (As for of shoes, presumably)
Bananits Long yellow skinned fruit sold by wans in Dublin markets. Usually sold alongside Strawbreenes.
Bandjaxed Broken, useless, tired
Bang Unpleasant odour. "D'ya get de bang off yer wan?"
Baps Check the Baps on Her!!!
Barney Dillons Shillin's, sheckels, moolah, money
Barney Rubble Trouble
Barry White A shite
Basement Jaxx Downstairs toilet
Bate I will bate your head in
Battle Cruiser Boozer otherwise known as pub
Battor Borger Appear to be a marriage of a beef patty, unknown pale gristly nodules and yesterday's fish batter. Complimented with a bottle of Lucozade
Be-jay-sis 2nite For fuck sake
Beamer To be embarrased - See Redner
Beaver Leaver He who prefers men to women, if you know wha' Oi Meeean?
Beef News
Bells Time. eg 10 Bells (10 o'clock)
Be L.O. Keep a look out
Benjy Bad smell. As in "Ara for Jaysus sake... head the ball hums like Benjy". See also Get up the yard
Berco As in mad, or absolutely rotten drunk
Bifter Joint', as in "roll a bifter"
Bill Murray Curry
Bills Pounds
Billy berko To go balistic or crazy
Bin lids Kids
Bingo wings Flabby underarms on a wan
Bird Girlfriend
Bizzies The Garda, "hide that bifter, heres the bizzies". (Is this not a scouse term? ED)
Black Mariah Garda van, Police van
Black Stuff Guinness
Blagged ya ourra it I seem to have gotten the better of you
Bleedin' Word commonly used for emphasis on something,eg. that was bleedin' terrible as opposed to really terrible....
Bleedener Another word for idiot, as in "Yer a bleedener"
Bleedin dope one who lacks intelligence
Blonde in a black skirt A pint of Guinness
Blue Peter 2 litre of cider
Bluey As in Taking a bluey. Temper Tantrum also known as A ginnier (ginny....r)
Blue eyes Nickname for someone who is crosseyed, 1 blew east and 1 blew west
Bobble To walk or to move somewhere.
Bob If a girl sees a good looking man,she can say that he is a "bob" or that she would "give him a few bob",meaning she would like to have intimate relations with him.
Bog Warrior Culchie
Bog ball A derogatory name for gaelic football
Bogger/Bog warrior An Individual hailing from outside Dublin, but within Ireland
Bogey Not good, dodgy
Bogland Anywhere outside of Dublin, but within Ireland. Boggers live there.
Bollix Pronounced bolleeks. Source is obvious. Use: 'he's a bollix'; 'ask me bollix'.
Bolloxchops As in when a taxi driver goes by with his light on and passengers in the cab you say "TURN YOUR LIGHT OFF BOLLOXCHOPS"!
Bo-jangled Absolutely hammered drunk
Bottle Of Water Your Daughter
Bottler Blue light on top of an emergency service vehicle
Boxed Off Meaning sorted, done and dusted
Box the fox Rob an orchard
Bowler A dog, esp a small scruffy terrier of a dog
Bowler A term that describes a very unattractive Girl / Lady, usually used when trying to describe the girl friend of a friend or colleague
Bradleys Means underarms, derives from Brad Pitt's - armpits - bradleys!
Brad Pitt Shit
Brasser Old military name for a streetwalker in Sackville Street May come from the old Lancashire saying that where there's muck there's brass{money}
Brazzer Prostitute/Whore
Brend Frickers.... As in knickers (rhymes with frickers) (Should this be Brenda? - ED)
Brown Bread Dead
Buffty (Not sure of the exact spelling) Another word for a homosexual man, i.e. George Michael is a buffty (or a buffty boy)
Bugle Erection
Buke Dublinese for Book, varied uses such as Skule Book.
Bull and cow A row,a fight
Bunce "Are we doin' a bunce?" "Are we pooling our financial resources for the drink?"
Bum As in "can I bum a smoke of ye boss"
Bunched A catch-all word for tired, broken, useless etc
Bunk See On the hop
Burst Threat of physical harm as in "I'll fe****g burst ye, ye leary bollix ye"
Butt-stroke When a skanger gives u a mixture of a butt and stroke with his head. also known as a tooth-chipper
Butt's on ya Can I have the last 3rd of your cigarette
Buzzin "Ii'm only buzzin off ye" I'm jokin with you
C
Cabbage Meaning someone acting stupid
Cacks Trousers or underwear
Caked Meaning to be very tired
Can of piss See gobshite
Cant the ball Lose the ball over a garden wall
Cat Really bad as in "that's cat"
Cetch Meaning to catch!
Charlo Young knacker usually behind the wheel of honda civic with trademark baseball cap
Check out the carry cots on her boat race!! Check out the spots on her face!!
Chevy Chase Face
Chimin!! Means someone who thinks they're great!
Chicken's Neck Cheque
Chisler Child (Boy, more likely - ED)
Christian Slater Rhyming slang for "Later". Associated with the U.S. movie star of same name.
Claimed As in "you're claimed!" (I'm about to beat you up)
Clip Knock or belt, as in "I'll give ye a good clip 'round the ear if you don't do as yer told."
Cock-block Trying to prevent a friend from scoring a bird
Coddle As Dublin as it gets
Cool the jets Meaning relax, slow down.
Coppertop/ coppernob Gingerhaired person
Copshop Garda station
Corking the bottle Nice way to describe sexual intercourse
Corks Term used by some children instead of #2
Corner Boy Upstart
Corner Boy Corner boy is not an upstart. It is an old Dublin for the layabouts who used to hang around the corners of the streets doing nothing.It was a derogatory term.
Cousint Cousin
Cream Cracker A derogatory rhyming slang word for a Traveller based on Knacker
Cream cracker Also known as a creamer
Craic Or the crack. As in 'what's the crack?'. (This needs a bigger definition. ED)
Craic You wanted a more definiate meaning, well in Dublin it means good company, good jokes and good times in the pub/disco.
Crips King crisps
Culchie Disparaging name for someone from outside Dublin.
D
D4 head A person from the Dublin 4 area (wealthy southsiders), they have a vocab of their own likely to include "the dualer" meaning the Stillorgan dual carriageway. These type of people are also likely to say "moby" for mobile phone, "such a mare!" for nightmare and "I soo need a heiny" meaning I am in need of a Heineken.
Da Your father
Dairies Crude reference to a woman`s breasts
Dak Cigarette
Dak Smoke, going for a smoke
De leshur' The local bowling-alley/games-emporium and source of employment. A home from home. "yew workin' dowan de leshur' naow?"
Deadly Meaning brilliant
Deadly Meaning really great
Dialled Finished, understood, sorted
Dickie Diver A fiver/five pound! Fiver
Dig in the grave Shave
Dinky Meaning tiny or small
Dirtbird Pervert
Disco Biscuits Drugs, specifically methylenedioxymethylamphetamine or E's
Do ya the Gee? Asking girl does she have sex
Do be/Does be As in "We do be here every night and yer wan does be always locked outta her gimp."
Dog and bone Phone
Dog's bollocks The best
Dogsvommit Don't know, me Da used to use it. (Well, what was the context? ED)
Don't be Bogart'in Pass the joint
Don`t get your knickers in a knot Meaning young one don`t get upset.
Dosser Lazy chancer
.com See ya later (You're making that up. ED)
Doubleing Dublin
Doxie, doxy Girlfriend
Drain da snake Have a piss
Drifty Any homeless individual
Drink link ATM, cash machine
"D'tides goin' ou'" Usually when someone is slow to buy his round. "It's your round!" or, "Get the bleedin' gargle in"
Dublin coddle Boiled sausages and spuds
Eejit Idiot.
Ecker Homework
Ekker Have you got any Homework from school?
Elephants Means drunk
Empty Fork A Girl wearing Trousers in the old days
Epp O' As in my missus will take an epp O' if she finds out!
Europes Euro Currency. Recently heard on Moore Street so is as genuine
F
Fair Play As made famous by our very own Ronan Keating - mean Fair Play (obviously). Means "well done" as in fair play to yer man, he drank 20 pints.
Fambly Your ma, da, brothers and sisters
Feak To French kiss someone i.e., "I feaked yer wan last night, man"
Feck Cunningly non-profane version of the word Fuck. Poularized on the Channel 4 TV Comedy Father Ted.
Feck off Get lost
Fellet a.k.a. Fella, boyfriend, bloke, chap, significant other.
Few sambo's short of a picnic Insane
Fiddle & Jig a.k.a. Thingymajig, Syrup (of Figs)or plain and simple WIG (as in hairpiece).
Fiend Extremely filthy indiviual
Flitters To have an upset stomach etc. as a result of alcoholic overindulgence
Floosie A loose woman.
Foxy Gingerhaired (see coppertop/coppernob)
Funkin' The smell of ya, your'e funkin!
Furry Pits Chick that has not shaved under arm hair
G
Gank Disgusting or Abhorrent
Gas Funny "Isn't yer man gas, all the same"
Gaff Your house
Game ball Meaning I'm OK ie "How ye doin' Jacko"?? "Ah, game ball"
Gargle Meaning alcohol. Other words include 'a few scoops' 'bevys'.
Gasman Funny bloke
Gee Female genitalia
Gee bag A really dislikable female
Geebag See slapper
Gee-eyed Drunk
Ger outta dat garden! Stop messin
Get off the box Cut the crap
Get off the stage Again, it bears similarites to "Get up the yard", but the closest English translation would be "Stop showing off"
Get out o' that garden Would you ever cop on
'Get the boat' Not a chance
Get up the yard Is most likely a naval term referring to the yardarm of a sailing ship. For true Dublinese the term should be followed by "there's a smell of bengy riordan of ya", Benjy Riordan being the architypal culchie from the tv series The Riordans
Get up the yard there's a smell of Benjy Riordan off ya Decidedly Dublinese. However, I beleive "up the yard" is a nautical reference from "yardarm"
Get up de yard, there's a smell of hay off ya A little dig at our country cousins and would be used when someone fcuked up.
Gick Meaning a big waffle/lie/not true
Gick What comes out the gicker
Gicker Your bum [up the gicker (no man quicker)]
Gickna Someone from the inner city, wears a tracksuit and walks like pidgeon
Gift See deadly
Gikna or gicna Old Dublin word for a pigeon (a popular hobby years ago.
Gingernut Redheaded person
Ginnyer Ginny Joe, a dummy or mongo with little or no mental awareness
Gino Genelli Means Belly - Stomach
Gis a drag Can I have some of your cigarette
Gis a go a ye! Let me have a go. (I thought it was something more colourful. Ed.)
Give a backer Give someone a lift on the back of a bicycle
Giv 'm a burner To bore someone with meaningless conversation.
Give us a Ware Give us a kiss
Give us a decko Let me see
Give us a gawk Let's have a look
Givertz Meaning Can I have... (e.g. "Givertz a package of crips")
Giz a crosser, skin Give me a lift on the crossbar of your bike, young man
Giz A Drag 3 x pulls of a fag
Giz a go ya Have sex
Giz a gook Give me a look, let me see, as in 'Giz a gook at the TV page'
Giz a shot Can I have a go.."giz a shot of that"
Gobaloon Idiot or eejit
Gob-daw Foolish character
Gobshite A stupid person.
God gerat me patience God grant me patience, usually spouted out by angry mothers to disobedient chislers.
Goose "Is she good for the goose?" or does she have sex
? Gotchie A gotchie is not a foreman on a building site as mentioned but a security man / park ranger or some such. Probably derives from the rural expression "got ye" as many of these individuals would have been retired guards thence culchies
Going Ester Ranzen Going dancing
Going to shake hands with the unemployed A statement to friends when you are off to take a piss!
Go on the gur Leave home without you're parents consent to sleep in the rough. Usually returned home by the Garda.
Gom (Rhymes with the ROM in CD-ROM) and Mug: 2 separate words meaning someone who's not the full shilling
Goodluckski Means - yeah right you will (as spoken from an immigrants point of view, take on the Russian language that everything ends in ski)
Goonyaboyya Well done..good job..good win on a horse
Gothcie Foreman of a building site
Gouger A Dublin character who tries to pull one over you as in "y'er man's a right gouger"
Goverment artist An unemployed person
Graham Gooch Rhyming slang for On the Mooch
Grand Meaning good or that's fine or everything's alright
Gregory Pecks Specs
Gregory Peck See chicken's neck
Grushy or Gushy At a Dublin wedding, it is customary for the best man to throw small change to the kids on the street. This custom is call grushy or gushy
Gullier Extra large marble
Gullier Rather large amount of phelm
Gunther Someone who makes a balls of something - as in "he's a gunthered" or "I gunthered that job..."
Gurrier Any example of a scruffy young boy or hooligan, trouble maker
Gutter snipe Lowlife
GwawkGwah See scrubber
H
Hairy Molly The black fuzzy caterpillars of the Cabbage White butterfly.
Hambone Incompetent worker
Ham Shank The sin of Onan. As in "If yer kippin' in me scratcher, no ham shankin', d'ye hear me?"
Hang and chaze sangich Ham and cheese sandwich
Hank & Lee Hungry as in Hank and Lee Marvin
Hard Chaw Bloke who thinks he's tough
Hard chaw Hard jaw =can take a punch (boxing slang).
Hardcore Somone who knows the score- as in he's f****n hardcore
Harry Joe Bailer See Bailer
Hatstand See Toaster
Having the ride Meaning making love
Hauh? Meant to be what
He wouldn't giv ye de steam off his piss! He's a mean or stingy person
Head like a jockeys bollix Hardheaded
Head the ball He's mental...comes from heading balls too much in football!
Head The Ball Your Man
Heart o' the rowl [Heart of the roll] - The very best, from the time when tobacco was sold from a roll. The center, or heart, of the roll was the juciest, best part.
He'd peel an orange in his pocka "He's a mean fellow"
Hellacioust Dunnno how to spell it but it means severe used with whuppin - "ye'll get a hellacioust whuppin"
Henry Means an eight of coke (Henry the 8th)
Here, Gizza Smoke! Do you want a fight?
Hidious Meaning damn ugly
Hit and Miss Rhymes with piss - #1 - wee or pee.
Hit and miss Havin' a piss!
Hiya Hello
Hole As in "I got me hole last night"
Holy show To make a spectacle of yourself
Hoop Arse - "look at the Hoop on her"
Hoor Literally whore but can be affectionate or admiring, even grudgingly admiring as in 'cute hoor'
Hoor's knickers A mess, as in "yer wan over there looks like a total hoor's knickers"
Hoor's melt Someone you despise
Hornswadle To steal
Horse How's it going, "storee horse"
Horse As in 'what are ye up t' horse, ye bleedin sucker'
Horse box Fat & bulkey bloke
Horsenuts Means big balls
Howl Pronounced Howel - comedian or very funny person as in "Jayzus yer mans' a howl"
How's the body? How's it going?
How's the form? How are you?
How's it hanging? How are you doing?
How many are ye? How old are ye?
HOWYA (all in caps) Is HELLO magazine
Howya (n) Someone from the suburbs, not an AJH
Howya Hello
Hum Smell, usually bad but sometimes neutral. As in "Did you get the hum off him? It was gank." or "There's a weird hum off that."
I
I could eat a dog's bollox through a tennis racket! I am really hungry
I'd ate yer hand! "I'm rather peckish!"
I need to splash me boots Use the bathroom
I suppose an R is out of the Q I suppose a ride is out of the question much asked question after consumption of too much skinnymalink
I'd eat the leg off the Lamb of God Starving with the hunger
I'm Lee Marvin Starving, hungry
I'm only buzzin' wit ya I am only pulling your leg
I'm only coddin Only joking
I'm only hairdressing Messing, joking around, acting the clown
I'm outta me box Drunk, stoned
In a jocker In bits, rag order, in a bad shape
In me arse A refusal to co-operate: 'I will in me arse'.
In ribbons Ugly. As in "Jayzus, that yun'wan's skin and blister is in ribbons!"
In tats/in tatters Ugly. As in "Jayzus, that yun'wan is in tats!"
Is she good for the sauce? Is she sexually active?
J
Jack Dee Another nickname for Es
Jackanory Story. What`s the Jackanory.What's happening
Jack - jackeen Dubliner
Jack/Jackeen Disparaging name for a Dubliner based on the waving of Union Jacks during a visit of Queen Victoria.
Jack Palancing Dancing
Jack Russells Look at the Jack Russells on your man - (hasn't he got fine muscles!)
Jam jar Car
Janey mac or gorney mac An expression of surprise similiar to "oh golly" this one goes back a bit, janey and gorney were two Dublin sisters but I'm not sure what they did that resulted in this use of their names
Janey Mack Ah Feck
Janeymack! Confused suprise. Like saying, "oh shite!"
Jant To obtain a lift on somebodys bicycle,car,truck etc.. "Here Micko, giz a jant down the shops will ye"
Jax/Jacks Toilet; as in: I'm off to the jax, see yiz later
Jayzus! Blasphemous expletive in common use
Ja' want your snot broke? Do you want a fight?
Jelly tot Moth ie. your burd i.e d ball 'n chain ie your girlfriend
Jesus Mary and Joseph suffering F**k! See Sweet Lamb-a Jaysus!
Je-Want-Yer-Go Do you want to fight me?
Jeyes Fluid Nude. I was in me Jayes Fluid.
J.H or Jaysus howiyi Some little knacker sporting a shiny tracksuit and 20 earrings (and a baby at 14)
Jileys Travellers. See 'knackers'
Jinny Joe/ Jimminy Joe The airborne seeds of Piss-in-the-Beds (Dandalions). Contain a wish, allegedly
Jimmy Riddle Rhymes with Piddle - #1 - wee-wee - pee.
Jimmy Savaged To be cabbaged - To be stoned
Jockey or Speedy Garda on Motorbike
Jocks Underpants. Also bags, underjocks or trolleys.
Joe Maxi Taxi
Joe Roofer As in spoofer - someone who tells lies!
Joe Skinner Your Dinner
Johnner Any bogey character e.g 40 coats
Johnnies Come in either Player Blue, contraceptive or Onion Ring varieties
John-Paul Common name of a Dublin thug.
Jo Maxi Taxi
Jolliers Travellers
Judy Old word used in the 40s and 50s for your girlfriend very like Ali Gs Julie (Huh? ED)
Jumbo Joint....."Are you spliffing up a jumbo"
Kangaroo Thankin' you
Kilt Killed
Kip Going for a kip (sleep)
Kip This place is a kip (in a mess)
Klackers Breasts ie. look at the klackers on her
Knackeragua Rough area
Knackered Tired
Knackers Means balls
Knacker-drinking The practise of drinking cider or warm lager al fresco. Stems from the fact that knackers choose to do their socializing outdoors as many pubs refuse them entry.
Knight Rider Cider
Knob-end Similar to dickhead
Knobhead As u may have guessed it means dickhead "ye bleedin knobhead"
Know 'wa I mean Common phrase used at the end of most scentences...
L
Lamb a Jaysus\Fuck To express disgust at anothers actions. As in "lamb a fuck Johno, hold the ball up will ya"
Lamb Chops Sideburns with a distinctive shape
Lamp Having several meanings, to strike someone, to give a someone a good "lampin'", or to be "lampey" drunk.
Langer It's not a Dublin word it's a Cork word and it's the best word in the world. It can be applied to almost anything, drunk, your penis, a person that you dislike and many more. (Maybe I shouldn't be putting Cork words into a Dublin dictionary, hmp? ED)
Langered Drunk
Laugh and a joke Having a smoke
Leet'l (adj.) North Wicklow slang for something/someone that is vint or a legend. (This is Dublin Dictionary! ED)
Legger, Do a Run away, usually from something bad. Alt. version of Leg it
Leg it To take off running
Leg it To run away very fast
Let one rip Meaning to fart loudly
Lettin' on Only kiddin'
Lids Pounds
Lights are on but nobody's home Not alright in the head, mad like
Loaf, to loaf so A headbutt, to headbutt so
Lockard Those gentlemen in peaked caps who appear when you are attempting to reverse into a parking spot and entreat you to "Lock 'ard mister, lock 'ard". Cf. Monback (What does Cf mean? - ED)
Locked Extremely pissed
Locked Drunk as a fiddlers bitch
Lou Reid Speed
Low fat bacon Trainee garda
