Cork Slang, Page 11
More Cork slang, numbers 401 to 440, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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To soil one's underwear.
Have you got any cannabis for sale or personal consumption?
A member of the Garda Síochána, the Irish police force.
Living from day to day, perpetually broke; shortened from 'come day go day.
A warm greeting equivalent to "hello, what's the story?"
In Tipperary, the word pants is used to mean trousers rather than underwear.
An exclamation upon hearing good news.
To beat someone severely.
Blackberries gathered from wild bushes in the countryside.
To steal something.
No money whatsoever.
Gat on for deth I swar taa gawd
To drink to excess.
Glass marbles used in traditional children's playground games.
A full forward in a GAA match impatiently demanding the ball from the midfielder.
Menstruating.
A thick-witted or dull person.
A foolish or eccentric person or thing; an odd specimen.
A large quantity or substantial amount of something.
Blarney Street in Cork city.
To have spent or passed time in a particular place or manner.
To be infatuated with or in love with something.
Behaving in a mischievous or reckless manner, especially in a sexual context.
Shake hands with the unemployed
To urinate.
Crooked, lopsided or askew.
A swig or mouthful of drink, usually begged off someone else's bottle or can.
The city centre, particularly Dublin's core shopping and drinking districts.
A particularly forceful punch or wallop.
Used to indicate that a previous statement was merely a joke.
As rough as a bag of mangled badgers
Extremely ugly or unattractive in appearance.
One's parents.
1.
A scumbag or thoroughly disreputable individual.
To cause intentional bodily harm with a wooden implement, such as a hurley.
Sanitary towels.
To attempt or try something for the first time.
A collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin in the pubic area.
Delicious or sexually attractive.
A tall, lanky and somewhat awkward individual.
Soreness of the inner thighs caused by wearing pyjama bottoms in which one has urinated.
Hopeless, useless, or exceptionally poor in quality or performance.