Cavan Slang, Page 3
More Cavan slang, numbers 81 to 120, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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Playing with or fondling breasts.
What?
An affirmative response meaning yes.
A clumsy or foolish person.
Enthusiastic about sexual activity.
A grandmother one finds sexually attractive.
Someone who talks absolute nonsense or spews idle rubbish.
A typical Cavan insult, a play on the word cunt.
A bizarre and colloquial greeting inquiring after someone's wellbeing.
To succeed in getting off with or kissing an attractive person.
Being completely certain, absolute, or one hundred percent convinced of a matter.
An inquiry as to one's current state or circumstances.
A substantial quantity of alcoholic drink or a heavy drinking session.
A ditch.
Ejaculation; climax.
Extremely rare or uncommon.
Variant of desperate, meaning very or extremely.
To look very well; an expression of admiration or compliment.
Cattle fodder or feed for livestock.
A threat to strike someone hard on the head.
Quite or rather; to a notable degree.
A casual reference to an unnamed girl or woman, the feminine counterpart to 'yer man'.
In a bad state of repair.
A common greeting in Monaghan and Cavan, equivalent to hello or how are you.
Very.
An exclamation of surprise, shock or exasperation.
In Limerick, this term means someone who is nasty.
That is fine, no problem at all.
An exclamation of utter exasperation, disbelief, or fed up annoyance.
A common emphatic particle with no specific semantic content.
A heavy, resounding blow or slap delivered to someone, usually during a scuffle.
Very or extremely.
Be quiet.
A casual greeting used among men, substituting the word horse or hurse.
That person yonder, a particular individual.
A large quantity or great heap of something.
A large quantity or bunch.
A foolish, dodgy, or grasping person; a general rogue or eejit.
A foolish or ridiculous person.
A powerful urge to retch or vomit.