Kerry Slang, Page 5
More Kerry slang, numbers 161 to 200, most popular first, each with a short meaning. Click any word for examples and a Posh English translation.
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A fool or someone acting foolishly.
Completely satisfactory, in fine order, or entirely free from trouble.
In schoolyard slagging, someone who has never shifted anyone.
A donkey, used as a term for a foolish person.
Conceited or in love with oneself.
An untidy or awkward player released onto the pitch.
Bad luck.
An incredulous interrogative exclamation used when one did not quite catch a statement.
A heavy missile or projectile, especially one dropped from a height.
An unattractive person, especially one considered to have been rendered so by a notional…
Common decency or sense.
Extremely drunk.
To urinate.
Unfavourable clandestine description of a woman of robust build.
Drinking alcohol heavily and with great enthusiasm.
Extremely drunk.
Crooked, lopsided or askew.
To be very cold.
To strike someone, usually with a fist.
The small field or enclosure behind a cottage.
To depart from one place and proceed to another.
A habitual liar, braggart, or teller of tall tales.
Bothered or feeling persecuted.
Completely hammered or intoxicated to an impressive degree.
An exhortation to exert maximum effort or to perform a task with great vigour.
To not care in the slightest about a matter.
Little balls of excrement that cling to the hairs around one's anus.
Considered to be greater in degree than awful.
The geographical direction east, rendered with local dialect pronunciation.
The phonetic spelling of the interrogative pronoun what.
Im not as green as I am cabbage
Not as naive or stupid as one might appear.
A swift elision of the phrase I will tell you.
He wouldn't kick snow off a rope
Said of someone who is hopeless at football.
To make a proper effort with something; to apply oneself vigorously.
It is very hot.
You rascals, you.
An expression of approval or well done.
A beer or pint.
A red-haired or ginger-haired person.
Used when one finds out something secret about someone.