Skank

n.

Heard in Limerick, Cork, Sligo and Galway

A lowlife or scoundrel. Also a promiscuous woman.

Do'mind that manky skank" "Shes a skank.

Posh English

Pay no attention to that thoroughly unsavoury creature. She is a slattern.

Same phrase, other counties

• Cork
• Sligo
• Galway

Related terms

• Over nite skankThe rule whereby one may keep another's property if one has had it in one's possession…
• Gas man/womanAn exceptionally amusing, eccentric, or entertaining person.
• Id say shed be some woman to lay blocks!A robust, physically strong woman who could manage heavy manual labour.
• Uppinahape, like the man who married the fat womanDescription of feeling out of sorts especially on a monday morning.