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Ireland slang
Slang heard in Ireland. 68 words and meanings, most familiar first.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sound | Good; acceptable; decent. |
| pull | To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner. |
| class | Great; fabulous |
| animal | Excellent |
| bobby | A police officer. |
| shift | The act of kissing passionately. |
| legend | A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male. |
| cock | A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person. |
| producer | An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven days (or ten, in the Republic of Ireland) in which to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station. |
| bloke | (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment. |
| blocked | Drunk |
| willy | The penis. |
| burke | To murder by suffocation. |
| sketch | A lookout; vigilant watch for something. |
| fierce | Excellent, very good. |
| bugger | A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person. |
| spa | An idiot; a gobshite |
| bollocks | An expression of anger, frustration, etc. |
| sod | A person; often qualified with an adjective. |
| git | A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man). |
| geezer | Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy. |
| bog | A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet. |
| gob | The mouth. |
| chipper | A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods. |
| yoke | A pill of a psychoactive drug. |
| tosser | A male who masturbates. |
| ponce | A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's. |
| snapper | A (human) baby. |
| gaff | A place of residence. |
| bleeder | A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter. |
| chippy | A carpenter. |
| nit | A head louse regardless of its age. |
| paralytic | Very drunk. |
| feck | To steal. |
| mot | A woman; a wife. |
| minted | Wealthy |
| peeler | A police officer. |
| slapper | A prostitute. |
| bap | A woman's breast. |
| bluebottle | A police officer. |
| bowser | A buffoon or imbecile. |
| codswallop | Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish. |
| knacker | A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe. |
| ossified | Drunk. |
| pare | To sharpen a pencil. |
| bevvy | Alcoholic beverage. |
| bonce | The human head. |
| brasser | Prostitute. |
| caff | Café, cafeteria. |
| chancer | A scheming opportunist. |
| chiseler | A child. |
| chunder | Vomit. |
| coner | A zoot tapered to a conical shape. |
| faff | An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time. |
| fluted | Drunk; intoxicated. |
| gobby | Inclined to talk in a loud and offensive manner. |
| gombeen | A mean, underhanded, corrupt person. Usually applied to politicians. |
| gowl | Vulva. |
| jointed | Extremely full of people, packed, chockablock. |
| knacked | Very tired; knackered. |
| lege | A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard. |
| manky | Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting. |
| narky | Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging. |
| sambo | A sandwich. |
| scran | Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub. |
| shinner | A member or supporter of Sinn Féin. |
| steamboats | Drunk; intoxicated. |
| tosspot | A fool, prat; an idiot. |
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources