Galway Slang, Page 6
More Galway slang, numbers 201 to 240, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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A multipurpose term in Longford most often used to indicate a complete lack or absence…
A young woman or girl.
To strike with a closed fist.
Accurate, precise, or entirely correct in assessment.
Complaining or grumbling.
Someone who is cunning as a fox.
A bovine animal, particularly a cow or bull on a farm.
The act of truanting or skipping school classes.
A house or home.
Out drinking alcohol with enthusiasm.
The objective pronoun me, frequently employed where standard English uses my or I.
To steal or pilfer something right from under someone's nose.
Body Off Baywatch Face Off Crimewatch- can be a very deceivingly good looking person…
Great, Perfect.
Useless complaints, unnecessary fuss, or tiresome hassle.
An enquiry as to what one is doing.
Disorganised or in a state of chaos.
Something terrible or awful.
A threat to strike someone violently in the face.
A very greedy person or one who overindulges.
Describing someone who is mentally unbalanced, eccentric, or acting in a foolish manner.
One's posterior.
Diarrohea.
In schoolyard slagging, someone who has never shifted anyone.
Sleeveen is a complex expression.
A fool, from the Irish pleidhce.
Crying hard.
Brilliant / Marvellous.
Very unwell indeed.
To get into trouble.
Exhausted or severely hungover following an evening of heavy drinking.
In Cork, a vague term for a period of time, a situation or simply a thing or object.
Six "men" an seventeen dogs hunting a big savage rabbit and usually winnin'
To break wind only to realise too late that one has also soiled oneself.
Bad luck.
Describing a situation, turn of events.
Diarrhoea.
To compliment someone insincerely.
Buckfast Tonic Wine, an inexpensive fortified wine.
Ugly or repulsive in appearance.