Cork Slang, Page 10
More Cork slang, numbers 361 to 400, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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To slack off or idle.
Someone said something awhful and manky or something you didn't need to know.
A foolish or ignorant person, a milder form of gobshite.
Phonetic pronunciation of into.
To not care whatsoever about a matter; an expression of absolute indifference.
Desperately in need of defecation.
A swimming costume.
A local term of endearment used around Mallow and Doneraile in County Cork for someone…
A backhanded compliment describing a shrewd, charming Corkonian.
A fight or row.
A witty retort when one mutters under ones breath and an eavesdropper asks who one…
All in proper order; satisfactory.
Means on the pig's back, sorted.
Embarrassed but in a shy way, like someone is put in the spotlight.
A huge drink of something.
A fictitious ailment, typically invoked to explain an absence or indisposition.
A generic, informal term of address used for any person.
An expression of complete disbelief or dismissal.
Extremely embarrassed or mortified.
Suffering from a severe bout of diarrhoea.
Used to intensify another adjective, especially to mean very or thoroughly.
The business end of one's posterior.
Added to the end of a sentence to leave the other person without a smart or appropriate…
A person who is talking or acting foolishly.
Drinking alcohol heavily and with great enthusiasm.
Kissing or snogging someone; a shift is a kiss, and to shift someone is to kiss them.
Throw a valuable object in the air, who catches it keeps it.
A form of greeting.
A person who is perceived as being profoundly foolish, eccentric.
An idiot or fool.
A Cork contraction of "boy will you", used to mean "please".
To beat someone up or give them a severe thrashing.
Extremely ugly.
Mediocre or only moderately satisfactory.
A vulgar term for a woman's genitalia.
School boy jape, where the rear of a victim's underpants is hoisted far above…
I would get a fright.
A large amount.
A humorous or derogatory term for a Garda station.
One's wife or female partner.