Cork Slang, Page 26
More Cork slang, numbers 1001 to 1040, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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To drink mass amounts of alcoholic pints with fellow pinting partners.
Putting on excessive airs and graces; acting remarkably pretentious.
Training shoes or runners.
Very small, tiny, or minuscule in scale.
Be quiet for a moment.
Taking matters to an excessive or unreasonable extreme.
To have no idea at all.
Behaving like a fool or acting the eejit.
A person with dark hair and a fair complexion.
I reckon.
The par three fifteenth hole at Douglas Golf Club in Cork.
A proud exclamation of support for Cork city or county.
Cork University Hospital.
One's head.
A cheeky request for someone's telephone number.
When the flag drops the bullshit stops
The crucial moment of truth where all nonsense must end and action begins.
An impatient demand for silence, especially when someone is criticising you.
St. Finbarr's hurling and football club in Cork.
An expression of exasperated disbelief equivalent to "for God's sake".
Utterly intoxicated.
A lazy worker, particularly one employed by local government leaning on a shovel.
Wait for me or stop what you are doing.
Chester cake.
An affectionate or lovable person, from the Irish grá meaning love.
Unevenly distributed…
An expression indicating that someone has exhausted one's patience and numbed the mind…
A park warden or guard, especially in Fitzgerald's Park.
A ruined or abandoned house, especially one in a dilapidated state.
A foolish or stupid person.
To cause upset, distress or physical discomfort to someone.
Pronounced (shhk-ya-ways) meaning lopsided, sideways, messed up, all over the place.
Not even a Garda would finda there
Somebody who is exceptionally well hidden.
A wild night out.
The Arcadia ballroom in Cork, situated opposite the railway station.
Bon Secours Hospital on College Road in Cork.
Where is the money.
Slap ya into the middle of next week
To administer a thorough physical beating.
The former Murphy and O'Connor timber yard in Bantry, opposite the Maritime Hotel.
To beat someone up.
Gaffing usually salmon as in the River Lee which the threat of being caught…