Only a Real Irishman will understand these words.

Feb 12, 2019 1:20 PM

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Only a Real Irishman will understand these words.2

Acting the maggot... Fooling around
Are ye having afters.. Are you having dessert.
Alco .. Alcoholic
Any use? Is it any good?
Arseways Put something on backwards.
A scab Someone always looking for money from you
A fib A lie
A kip . A Dump or a Sleep
Any odds? Any spare change?
A dry shite. Someone with no sense of humour.
Apeshite An idiot or someone going bananas.
A slap in the puss A slap in the face
a puck in the gob A punch in the mouth
Are ye startin Are you looking for trouble?
A fine thing A good looking girl
A bad dose A nasty person or a bad cold.
Bad egg Nasty person
Bang on Got it just right
Banjaxed Broken beyond repair
Barn Brack Barm Brack a currant cake.
Bogtrotter Country person
Bucketing down Raining hard
Back to my gaff Back to my house.
Cake hole Your mouth
Cup of cha Cup of tea
Cheesed off Annoyed
Chisseller a kid
Cop on Wake up/get a hold of yourself
Cute hoor a crafty person
Dosser Lazy person
Deadly Looks great
Dirtbird A seedy/dirty minded person.
Donkeys years Old
Eat the head off ye Bawl you out/roar in your face.
Eejit Idiot
Fire away Go ahead
Follier upper A sequel/series
Gick Poo
Geebag A lowlife
Gawking Staring
Gurrier A lowlife
Gollier A spit
Going for the messages Going to the shops
Going to the bog to the toilet
He's sound He's trustworthy
Hard neck Is not bothered by peoples opinions.
Holliers Holidays
its very dear Very expensive
I will in my ring/hole/bollix/arse I definitely wont.
I will alright I definitely wont
I'll have a mineral A soft drink
Its a banger A broken down old car
I'll give ye a belt I'll give you a punch
I'm going to strain the spuds Going to take a leak
I,m bushed Very tired
Its the business Its the best.
Janey mack For feck sake/gosh
Knick knack Knocking on doors and running off
Legless Drunk
Manky Dirty/smelly
Morto Mortified
Made a balls of it Did it badly
Me mot My girlfriend
Me new runners New trainers
Off the drink Sober
Off his trolley Drunk/mad
Only slaggin Only messing with you
Out of his tree Drunk/Mad
Pie eyed Drunk
Pox bottle Worst kind of person
pissed Drunk/angry
rag order All over the place/Disorganised
Rakin it in Making loads of cash
Rapid Looks great
Rashers Bacon strips
Reddener Embarrassed
Ructions A fracas/hell to pay
Scarlet Embarrassed
Sambos SandwichScalped Bad haircut
Squealer An informer
Spanner An idiot
Spa idiot
Sound as a pound Trustworthy
The runs Diarrhoea
the trots Diarrhoea
The other half The wife
The scratcher The bed
The jacks The toilet
The quare one The GF/wife
The babby The baby
the place was black Full
Yoke Thing /Pass me that yoke.

If you can speak English (as a second language) in a bar in Ireland, and keep up with conversation, it's safe to say you're fluent!

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fuck off, I know what a jar is!

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Over half of them seem to be normal colloquial UK english to me.

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Tuigim gach ceann acu!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Come on now, @OP, add the definitions.

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