Dublin Slang, Page 18
More Dublin slang, numbers 681 to 720, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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A contemptible person, a scoundrel.
A woman of loose morals; a slut.
Would you like to go halves on a bastard
A chatup line, suggestive of getting further than a phone number.
An annoying or irritating person.
A heavy drinker, wino or alcoholic.
A tiresome individual who believes they are amusing but is in fact merely irritating.
An informal request for a share of something.
The sum of fifty pounds or euros.
To beat or thrash someone severely.
The possessive determiner my, used frequently in robust colloquial locutions.
A long-term female partner sufficiently at ease in the relationship to perform fellatio.
Extremely neat and well turned out.
An Irish variant of "some boy", used to describe a notable, impressive or roguish fellow.
A crude proposition from a rough character asking a young woman if she is available…
You would catch it if it was a bag of heroin.
An apple suitable only for baking and not for eating raw.
A thoroughly disagreeable or unpleasant woman.
A dull, boring or tedious person.
An exclamation of disbelief or annoyance; another way of saying no.
Rhyming slang for a messer, i.e. a tiresome joker.
A vulva that was shaved five days previously.
Another way for saying the word hospital.
An exclamation of astonishment or surprise.
Acute embarrassment.
Extremely intoxicated.
A children's skipping rhyme from Dublin.
A person one suspects of being up to no good.
A street football game, also known as three-and-you're-in.
An exclamation of absolute astonishment or disbelief.
A warning cry used when playing football in the street.
A ten euro or ten pound note.
Excellent or first-rate.
Any place outside Dublin.
Get lost.
Have you heard of the 5 lamps?
Old Dublin expression used to shut someone up in a jokey manner.
Suffering from poor or failing eyesight.
Electricity.
A forceful strike delivered straight to an adversary's face using one's forehead.
A mad or erratic person.
One's girlfriend, wife or committed female partner.