Mace

v.

Heard in Galway

To forcibly request cash and other valuables from a person under threat of violence (only in Galway could you have two words to describe stealing).

That sham maced me bottle of Bucky! I'll be wide to the feen next time!

Posh English

That fellow liberated my bottled cider! I shall be exceedingly vigilant regarding that chap next time!

Related terms

• Gis two bob luh?A request for a small cash loan, often delivered with an undertone of menace; originally…
• Under the tinSafely gathered and stored under the corrugated iron roof of a hayshed.
• Only coddinOnly joking or messing about.
• Six o' one half a dozen of the otherIt is much the same either way; six of one and half a dozen of the other.
• A ting or twoTo have a few sharp words with someone in order to make a point or register a complaint.
• If yee don't stop fighting I'll kill the two of yeeAn expression used to when stop two children from bickering.