Dublin Slang, Page 23
More Dublin slang, numbers 881 to 920, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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Eyes that feel small, sunken and tired, as though one has been on the batter.
To dispense with all preliminaries and proceed directly to the main business at hand.
When you wipe your arse and there's no shite on the paper.
Rhyming slang for wide, meaning aware or alert.
A child, generally one's own.
A portion of fish and chips.
A classic takeaway order consisting of one portion of fish and one portion of chips.
Drugs, (esp.
To be frightened or scared.
Pasta or noodles, particularly of the standard supermarket variety.
Slang term to describe someone from the southside with a posh accent (I.e.
An exclamation similar to gosh or wow.
Extremely drunk or intoxicated.
Drunk.
Eyes.
Rhyming slang for nerves, from pot of herbs.
The act of defecating.
Cash, money, or hard currency.
A heroin addict.
An insincere, sly or untrustworthy person.
To hit somebody resulting in an open wound.
Extremely hot weather, so intense it feels as if it could split the very stones.
A form of greeting meaning "how's it going?" or "what's the story?"
Said of a very skinny girl wearing a short skirt.
A sarcastic form of address, similar to "sunshine".
A jacket, from rhyming slang on tennis racket.
Unable to distinguish one thing from another; thoroughly confused.
Extremely drunk or under the influence of drugs.
Posh people from Dalkey, or those who affect such airs.
When you wipe your arse and there's no shite on the paper.
A foolish or dim-witted person, delightfully misspelled.
Derogatory terms for a rural person or culchie.
Vagina.
A sequence of successive slow dances or ballads played at a venue.
To surreptitiously take possession of someone else's property without permission.
Rhyming slang for the pictures, meaning the cinema.
The zoological gardens in Dublin's Phoenix Park.
A fit of extreme rage.
To moan incessantly about everything.
Cider, especially the strong and cheap variety that delivers a potent kick to the system.