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Here are some Irish slang/sayings and their meanings:

What's the craic? (How are you??
What's the story? (How are you?)
Howya? (How are you?)
Story? (How are you?)
Any craic? (How are you?)
Hey (Hello)
Now (Here's your change)
Mickey (Penis)
Gee (Vagina)
Wagon (Loose woman)
Wagon (Car)
Craic (Fun)
Bants (Banter)
Reef (Steal)
Scoops (Pints)
Twisted (Drunk)
The Labour (Dole Office)
Brewskis (Beers)
Pants (Trousers)
Gas (Funny)
Scratcher (Bed)
Cat (Bad)
Yokes (Ecstacy tablets)
Tab (Cigarette)
Amazeballs (Great)
Ride (Sex)
Spa (Retard)
Window Licker (Retard)
Yo Yo (Euro)
Savage (Excellent)
Fierce (Very good)
Shocking (Bad)
Desperate (Bad)
Grand (OK)
Shift (Snog)

I will add some more when I think of them, but I have heard all of these since emigrating in 2010. It takes some getting used to.

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Fear (Hangover)
Horrors (Hangover)
Polluted (Drunk)

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Cream Cracker

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That's a good one. I never heard it used to describe a Knacker though. Only when people are exhausted they would say; I'm cream crackered.
More people seem to be calling them Pikeys rather than Knackers these days.
My parents generation always called them Gypos or Tinkers.
They like being called Travellers or Pavees though.
Here are some more I thought of:
Muck savage (Country person)
Culchie (Country person)
Bogger (Country person)
On the rip (Drinking session)
On the tear (Drinking session)

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Blaa-white bread
Lack-girl
Gallybander-catapult
Codding-joking
Gowler-messer

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Lack must be an abreviation of lackeen (girl).
As in; Dat young wans a pure gomie lackeen (stupid girl).

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What's a gomie ? Is it short for gombeen?

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Yes, a gomie is a gombeen.
Also sometimes just a gom.
Dat auld wan is a real gom.

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Deadly (Great)

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I was once called a ******y basstad.

Best insult ever.

Mind you, he's still walking backwards.

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That's a good one alright.
Here's some I heard here;
The best part of you ran down your Mothers leg.
I wouldn't ride her into battle.
I wouldn't ride her if she was the last bike in town and she had pedals on her.
She had a face on her like a bag full of mickeys.
And referring to a woman having trouble parking her car;
she wouldn't drive a stake in a bog.

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Press (cupboard)
Hot press (airing cupboard)
Jacks (toilets)

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Are you busy at work these days?
Sure I'm up to me oxsters. (armpits)

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frigger-small glass ornament
runners-sneakers
thongs-hair curlers
amadawn-fool
skanger-chav

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In Irish its; amadán (amadawn is the English version).

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Class (excellent)
Bad cess to you (bad luck to you).

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A cup of scald (tea)

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Herself (my Wife)
Himself (my Husband)
Acting the maggot (being a pain in the arse)
Mighty (excellent)

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Here's a funny think about runners;
Reebok's have a little Union flag on theirs, and wearers of the them in Cork black out the little flags with a black marker pen. They really hate Britain in the peoples republic of Cork.

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Can they not buy another brand of "runner"?

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That's exactly what I was thinking. Its madness. The thing is, I think they do it deliberately as a statement of bigotry to Great Britain. It would be the same as defacing the Queen's head on a British bank note. Corkonians see themselves as the Irish elite. The peoples Republic of Cork. They think Cork is the number one capital city in Ireland; not Dublin.
I see it like this, Cork Republicans are like a mirror image of the Loyalists in Belfast. They take their cultural apartheid, sectarianism, bigotry, and hatred to the extreme.
I am a Republican, but I don't feel the need to black out the Union flag on a pair of runners. What will that change? Nothing.
You would think they could just wear a pair of Nike or Adidas and get over it wouldn't you? But these are real Irish people, doing this for real.
I suppose they have to make these overt political statements to back up their Celtic football shirt wearing, and singing Wolfe Tones rebel songs.
This kind of armchair Republicanism in Ireland means nothing to me, and I am a Plastic Paddy.
Best of luck to anyone moving to Cork is all I can say..

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Up in certain areas of Belfast the Royal Mail vans would get stoned. So the postman would tape over the "Royal" part and he would not have his van stoned. The same people would then tootle off to the post office to cash their unemployment cheques. They were only "anti" when it suited them to be.

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That's actually true. The Falls Road in West Belfast is a no go area for Traffic Wardens. One can park where one likes on double yellow lines no problem. The Postmen do actually do that there. Its mad. But you are right, every one of those people that throw rocks and petrol bombs hold the Queen closest to their heart when they put their dole money in their breast pocket. Many of them were born after the Troubles and don't know any Irish history. They are just sheep, fake Republicans wearing a Celtic shirt and throwing petrol bombs at an armoured Tangi Land Rover to let off steam. I have personally seen the riots in the Ardoyne and the Newtownards roads, in Nationalist and Loyalist Belfast. The funny thing is, when you look at the so called Nationalists and Loyalists throwing rocks and petrol bombs at the PSNI, they are the same. They just grew up on different sides of the tracks, or in this case; different sides of the peace walls. Some of the murals on the houses and peace walls are great though. There is some political history recorded on many of them.
The sad thing is many of the people in the North are suffering with post traumatic stress disorder after the Troubles. It has the highest prescription rate of diazepan (valium) in the whole of the UK. Its very telling. You have 6 counties of paranoid, wired, edgy pill poppers up there; all ready to kick off at any time. I was in Belfast (doing some cheap Christmas shopping) when the Council took down the Union flag over Belfast City Hall, and they had to close the Christmas market due to all the Loyalists rioting. It cost the local economy millions. The irony is that the rest of the UK don't want the Loyalists in the North. They are just a drain on the UK tax payer. Imagine being loyal to a country that doesn't want you? Its like being a Plastic Paddy in Ireland these days.

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Speaking of the North, here are some sayings/slang from the lovely 6 counties:
Peeler (Policeman)
Blocked (Drunk)
Brew (Dole Office, it comes from the word Bureau)
Gulleys (trainers)
Rubbered (stoned on drugs)
Wagon (nice car)
Teague (Catholic)
Prod (Protestant)
Hun (Protestant)
Current Bun (Hun, as above)
Rocket (someone who likes to party)
Header (mentally ill person)
Window licker (Mentally ill person)
Tout (Police informant)

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Town (Dublin City Centre)
What part of Dublin do you live in? Town.
It would be easier just to ask them; Do you drink Lyons tea?
So you live in the South side of the City then.
I had a D4 (Dublin 4) girl shocked when I asked her would she like a mug of Barry's Gold blend. Oh no, that's what they drink in Cork isn't it? She replied.
Have you got any Lyons fruit teas? Sorry, I don't drink lesbian tea love, I replied.
D4 girls are a different breed of Irish. Plastic Californian's.
Chanel handbags, Christian Laboutin Shoes, iphone 4s', and Lyon's tea.
The fake accent is the worse thing though..

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As for accents Senator David Norris takes some beating - don't know about a "plum in the mouth", sounds more like he's something jammed up his hole.

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Agreed.
Nothing worse than listening to a gay Protestant Irish man, with a posh English accent. I can't stand listening to him.
Another one I cant stand is Rachel Allen with her fake D4 accent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZpADo1LwcY
They really are the shame of Ireland, dreadful accents.

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Pakie is not racist in Ireland. It's another name for Patrick or Pascal.

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[QUOTE=nolanger;10597624]Pakie is not racist in Ireland. It's another name for Patrick or Pascal.[/QUOTE

True, but there is a difference in the spelling;
Paki (Pakistani)
Packie (Patrick)
As in the Irish footballer, Packie Bonner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packie_Bonner

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At least Rachel Allen is easy on the eye, and she can shoot and cook.

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[QUOTE=Sean MacMaghnuis;10597654]Sambo - no not a black, in Ireland a sandwich.

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[QUOTE=sickntired;10597771]I will have a ham and cheese sammich and a mug of scald.

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Tallyman is someone who counts votes in an election, not a rent collector.

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That's a new one to me, never heard it before.
Have you seen the new driving licences with a chip on them?
It was a good stealth way of bringing in I.D cards into Ireland. Another way of gathering information so they can charge more tax.
Household charge, then in 2014 its water rates.
So even if you are not on the electoral register they will find you.

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Time for the scratcher (bed) but not with the mott (wife/gfriend).

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The funny thing is, some Irish call the bed; Scratcher. And some say being on the scratcher means being on the dole.

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Heard the dole referred to as "I'm on the scratch".

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Eire means burden. Éire means the island of Ireland.

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What's the craic? is there any fun about, good things happening (Not how are you)
Any craic? is there any fun going on around?

How's the craic? fun time, feeling good with/around you!


What's the story? Any news? (Not how are you?)

Howya/ how's it going? How are you?

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In Ireland a stoat is called a weasel.