O'Byrne Files © - Dublin Slang Dictionary and Phrase-book©
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Word / Phrase |
use |
Meaning |
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Babby |
n. |
Small child, baby |
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Babby Power |
n. |
Small bottle of Powers Irish Whiskey |
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Back |
adj. |
West |
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Backdoor trot |
n. |
Diarrhoea |
| Bad dose | n | Tough illness |
| Bag of shite | adj. / n. | Something not at all good |
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Bags, make a |
n. |
Mess; do something incompetently or inadequately [see hames] |
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Balls / ballsed |
n. & adj. |
[1] Testicles [2] Mess, mistake, disaster |
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Balls of malt |
n. |
Whiskey |
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Bamboozle |
vb. |
Deceive, outwit |
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Banantee |
n. |
Housewife |
| Banger | n | Old non-vintage car |
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Banjax |
vb. |
Ruin, injure, smash, destroy |
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Banjaxed |
adj. |
Broken, ruined; can also mean tired. "Bollocks! The car is banjaxed." |
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Banshee |
n. |
Any female figure of menace |
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Banter |
vb. |
Discuss, rebuke, admonish, challenge |
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Bap |
n. |
Small bread roll |
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Barmbrack |
n. |
Rich fruit loaf, frequently abbreviated to 'brack' |
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Barney |
n. & vb. |
Mind, head as in don't bother your barney. Also, vb. chat |
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Barrel |
vb. |
Move / travel rapidly with purpose |
| Baths | n | Public swimming pool |
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Batter |
adj. phr. |
Serious drinking , as in 'on the batter' |
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Bawneen |
n. |
Traditional woollen pullover, frequently off-white |
| Baz | n | Pubic hair |
| Bazzer | n | Tight haircut |
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Be / by the hokey |
expletiv |
Mild oath of surprise |
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Be the holies |
expletiv |
Mild oath of surprise |
| Bean flicker | n | Lesbian |
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Bean-Gárda |
n. |
Police woman |
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Bean-jacks |
n. |
Female toilet / convenience |
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Beat Banagher |
phr. |
Exceed the norm |
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Beat the lard out of s.o. |
vb. phr. |
Chastise severely, assault |
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Bedad |
expletiv |
Euphemism for "by God" rarely used by Dubliners |
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Beemer |
n. |
Fast German car |
| Beer coat | n. | The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3 in the morning. |
| Beer compass | n. | The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after a booze cruise, even though you're too pissed to remember where you live, how you get there, and where you've come from. |
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Begob |
expletiv |
Euphemism for "by God" rarely used by Dubliners |
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Begor / begorra |
expletiv |
Euphemism for "by God" rarely used by Dubliners |
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Begrudger |
n. |
s.o. who consistently and jealously belittles the achievements of others |
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Begrudgery |
abst. n. |
Envy |
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Bejapers |
expletiv |
Euphemism for "by Jesus" often used by Dubliners |
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Below |
adj. |
South |
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Belt |
vb. |
Assault, hit |
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Belt of a / the crozier |
n. phr. |
Episcopal censure |
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Best thing since sliced bread |
phr. |
Epitome of excellence |
| Bevvies | n | Alcoholic drinks |
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Biddy |
n. |
Meddlesome old woman |
| BIFFO | phr. | Big, Ignorant F**ker From Offaly |
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Bird |
n. |
Female, girl |
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Bit, the |
phr. |
Sexual intercourse |
| Bite my shite | phr. | Feck off, leave me alone and don't be so f**kin' stupid. / No Way |
| Black with | adj | Crowded (Town was black with people) |
| Black stuff, the | n. | Guinness |
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Blackguard |
vb. |
Abuse, vilify |
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Blaggard |
n. |
Chancer, hoodlum, |
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Blather |
vb. |
Talk on and on |
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Blather / blether |
n. & vb. |
Nonsense |
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Bleedin' beemer |
n |
Very fast German car |
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Bleeding / bleedin' |
adj |
Used to express serious emphasis; e.g. 'The weather was bleedin' terrible' "Where's me bleedin' dinner?" |
| Bleedin' deadly | adj | Brilliant |
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Blemm |
vb. |
Travel at speed |
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Blond with a black skirt |
phr. |
Pint of stout |
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Bloomsday |
date |
16th June 1094 |
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Blow-in |
n. |
Recent arrival not accepted by native Dubs; Foreigner |
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Bocketty / bockedy |
adj. |
Halting, imperfect, physically unstable or impaired |
| Bogball | n. | GAA Football (from siobh@chickmail.com) |
| Bogger | adj. | Country person not from Dublin or Ulster. Comes from term "Bogman", from the Dublinese "bog", meaning all of Ireland except Dublin. |
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Bogman |
n |
Term of contempt |
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Bog-standard |
adj. |
Basic, rudimentary |
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Bogtrotter |
n. |
Term of contempt |
| Bohs | n | Bohemiens Football Club |
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Bold |
adj |
Naughty, mostly of children, but sometimes also with sexual connotation. |
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Bold thing, the |
n. phr. |
Sexual intercourse |
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n. |
Despicable / unsavoury individual, invar. male |
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Bollocking |
n. |
Scolding; to "give out" to someone |
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Bombed out. |
as adj |
Jilted, given walking papers |
| Boner | n | Erection |
| Boozer | n | Pub, drinking house |
| Boreen | n. | Narrow counrtry road or lane |
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Bother |
n. & vb. |
Annoy, trouble , perplex, tease, worry |
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Bowsie / bowsy |
n. adj. |
Gurrier, lout |
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Box |
n. |
(1) Television. (2) Another word for the female genitalia/genital area |
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Box the fox |
vb. & phr |
Rob (steal) apples from an orchard |
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Box yer ears for yih |
vb. phr. |
Chastise severely, assault |
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Boyo |
n. |
Lad, 'cute hoor', wild energetic man |
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Boys o boys |
phr. |
Grunted sigh used to punctuate speech as an expression of tiredness |
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Bowser |
n. |
Troublesome character |
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Brassy/ brasser |
n. |
Impudent shameless prostitute or hussy, a woman of dubious morals |
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Brat |
n. |
Badly behaved child |
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Break a pudding |
vb. phr. |
Belch |
| Brickin' it | a | Nervous to the point of soiling oneself |
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Brillo |
adj. |
Brilliant, as in wonderful |
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Bring, to |
vb. |
Take |
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Brothers, the |
n. |
Christian Brothers teaching order or school |
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Brown, in your |
phr. |
Expression of disbelief |
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Brush with |
n. & vb. |
Encounter, |
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Brutal |
adj |
Very bad |
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Bucket |
vb. |
Rain very heavily |
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Buckled |
adj. |
Intoxicated, an extreme state of inebriation |
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Bucko |
n. |
Lad, playboy |
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Bugle |
n. |
Erection |
| Bunt | vb | Help someone climb a wall or tree etc. see also hoosh |
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Bush |
n. |
Female pubic hair |
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Bushed |
adj. |
Exhausted |
| Business, to do | vb. | Have a shite |
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December, 2006
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