Cavan Slang, Page 4
More Cavan slang, numbers 121 to 160, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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A young boy, lad, or cheeky young fellow running about the place.
Abbreviation of how are you.
An expression of genuine surprise or astonishment.
Partaking in frivolous activities that involve being somewhere other than where you're…
A term often used at the beginning of a sentence, roughly meaning well or indeed.
A foolish, ridiculous, or blundering person.
A casual greeting inquiring about someone's current well-being.
A serious bout.
Very drunk or inebriated.
Hold your tongue or stop talking nonsense.
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To be romantically involved with someone.
A put-on foreign accent, especially the American one someone brings home after a summer…
An exclamation of profound shock, dismay, or disbelief.
Just.
Prostitute or term for an activity undertaken in a committed and sometimes frenzied…
Messy/Dirty.
A crude retort when asked the whereabouts of another person.
Testicles.
Extremely cold.
Am not; am I not?; have I not?
'Use your brain' or 'obviously!' ' thaat one you don't even have to think about'
A small quantity or a few of something.
I'd ate the hind leg of the lamb of God
One is extremely hungry.
In schoolyard slagging, someone who has never shifted anyone.
A Garda, a member of the Irish police force.
Beyond or down there; over yonder.
The radio, typically with the tuner fixed between 95.6 and 96.4 FM.
Tea, the hot beverage made from an infusion of leaves from the tea plant.
A thing whose name one cannot recall at the moment.
An instruction to calm down, keep one's composure, or stop panicking.
To splash or spray liquid about.
Affectionate or colloquial term for one's mother.
An insignificant but jumped-up fellow or girl.
A colloquial idiom used to ask how someone has been getting on lately.
Outmoded term for romancing or dating a member of the opposite sex.
Something or someone remarkable, or a remarkable situation.
Tragic or uncool.
Absolutely nothing at all.
A woman usually deployed when one is in trouble.