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Ok I'm Irish and need some Irish slang for a school project.

I don't mean Irish as in Gaelige I mean Irish as in English words used by the Irish!

E.g.

Sheepshagger= A Rossie!

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  1. Mucker= mate

    spide= Belfast guys who wear tracksuits and drive modified cars, wear loads of jewllery and baseball caps

    millie= female spide

    What about ye?/Arite there?/What's tha craic? = How are ya?

    .....hey= term used after every sentence if you are from Donegal

    Peelers= cops

    Boggin'/Mingin'/Manky'= gross

    Talent= attractive people

    Snog= kiss

    Thingy= person who's name you can't remember, you fill it in with "Thingy"

    Soda= a type of bread

    Mineral= soft drink, ie. Coke

    naff= Stupid

    Trolley= shopping cart

    Bonnet= hood of a car

    Boot= trunk of a car

    Half-cut/Cut /Rato/Bolloxed/Steamin/Full/Pissed/Locke... terms for 'intoxicated'

    Shattered= tired

    Slag= tease, make fun of

    Oul Wan/ Yer Wan= older woman

    Lash= to rain down hard, e.g., It's lashing out!

    Jacks/Loo/Bog= toilet

    Gas= funny

    Gaff= flat, house

    Fair play!= well done

    Crack on/press on = continue on

    press= cupboards

    runners= sneakers


  2. oi, i'm not a culchie and i'm from Galway!

    but heres some slang

    bogger=culchie

    deadly

    beour

    fiend

    yoke=thing, drug ecstasy

    locked,bollocksed

    lush e.g: can i have a lush of buckfast (a drink)

    class

    wrecked=tired (in scotland they use it for drunk though,very confusing)

    shift=kiss/snog

  3. skitther,scallywag, flute, pup,amathon (no idea how to spell it)

    gobshite basically all mean the same thing like a pipsqueak, annoying child etc

    cultie= somone who lives in the country a farmer

    townie= one living in the town

    savage=hot

    fit=hot

    sound= fine, nice etc

    those are all i can think of, heres a website w. more though http://www.irishslang.co.za/

  4. Try this link for Belfast slang. Good Luck.

    http://www.esnips.com/doc/23a4a356-f97b-...

  5. Emm I can giv ya the Donegal slang

    We put hey and hi at the start and end of a lot of sentances.

    We say "wee" an awful lot. As in a wee cup of tea.

    We also say "wile" instead of very or terrible "it's while bad day."

    I call something "class" if it's great.

    Aye is  used instead of yes and sometimes repeated when someones talkin to ya!!

    A buck is a guy.

    A windy is a window.

    We call our dad the  "Aul Boy" and our mums "the aul doll" and the two of them are the "aul pair".

    Pure means very.

    Rare means strange or unusual.

    If someones being Tight their being cruel.

    We call babies or children "Weins."

    "yes" can mean hello and so can "Well lad" or "well boy" to a man or woman!

    "Glack" means goodluck or goodbye.

  6. http://www.corkslang.com/introduction.ht...

    Cork slang. It's class, like

  7. not sure about the spelling, as they are in irish, but here are some:

    kaliying (visiting) lol that is NOT how its spelt

    cultie

    cutty

    cub

    all the ones i no in english are :

    class

    hi

    wile

  8. skanger

    D4

    Boggie

    Cultie

    Mad Yoke

    Sorry, There the only ones I could think of.

  9. my own favorite is

    he's dense as bottled shite

    http://www.odysseusepicmythhero.com

  10. There's a publication called the Hiberno English dictionary that might be useful ....

    Crawthumper

    Gurrier

    Knacker

  11. culchie

    sheugh

    gobshite

    tatie bread = dead

  12. Dunno wer ur from, but im from south derry, and iv a frend from Maghera hu says "Boggin', in a glen accent.

    'Dorty'

    'waen'

    ween, as in a weena sweets

    naw

    leckly (likely)

    craic

    tae

    aye

    wile

    tarra

    wan

    door pronounced dour

    good on yee

  13. There is a whole dictionary of everyday English and slang used in Ireland at the first site below.

    Slang used in Dublin at the second site

    The third site has slang used in Sport, Dublin, Cork and Limerick.
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