Irish Dictionary
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| Irish Slang: | ¡@ | meaning in English: |
| Babby | n | little child - baby |
| baby Power | n | miniature bottle of Powers Irish Whiskey (favoured size for ladies handbags |
| Bad dose | n | tough old time with illness |
| Back | a | west |
| Backdoor trot | n | Diarrhoea |
| Bad dose | n | Tough illness |
| Bag of Taytos | n | packet of potato chips a.k.a. crisps |
| Bags | n | messy job |
| Bake | n | face/mouth |
| Ball of shite | n | as in, my dad's old car was a ball of shite |
| Balls | n | to mess up, e.g. I made a balls of that job |
| Baluba | n | "stop acting like a Baluba". Horseplay, rough housing. Derived from the Baluba tribe Belgian Congo. Several Irish soldiers killed by them in the early 1960s |
| Bamboozle | v | Deceive, outwit |
| Banger | a | old car |
| Banjax | v | Ruin, injure, smash, destroy |
| Banjaxed | n | broken, no good |
| Banshee | n | Any female figure of menace |
| Banter | v | Discuss, rebuke, admonish, challenge |
| Bap | n | Small bread roll |
| Barm brack | n | cake eaten at holloween,
from gaelic bareen brack = a feckled cake |
| Barney | n/v | Mind, head as in don't bother your barney. Also, vb. chat |
| Barrelling | v | rushing around (with purpose?) |
| Baths | n | public swimming pool |
| Batter | a/phr | Serious drinking , as in 'on the batter' |
| Battle cruiser | n | the pub; rhymes with boozer |
| Bawneen | n | Traditional woollen pullover, frequently off-white |
| Baz | n | pubic hair |
| Bazzer | n | haircut |
| Be / by the hokey | expletiv | Mild oath of surprise |
| Bean flicker | n | lesbian |
| Bean-Gárda | n | Police woman |
| Bean-jacks | n | ladies toilet |
| Beat Banagher | phr | Exceed the norm |
| Beat the lard out of s.o. | phr | Chastise severely, assault |
| Bedad | exclam | Euphemism for "by God" rarely used by Dubliners |
| Beemer | n | Fast German car |
| Begorrah | exclam | be god (no self-respecting Irish person says this. Sorry, Hollywood) |
| Begrudger | n | s.o. who consistently and jealously belittles the achievements of others |
| Begrudgery | n | Envy |
| Bejappers | exclam | Euphemism for "by Jesus" often used by Dubliners |
| Below | n | South |
| Belt | v | hit, assault |
| Belt of a / the crozier | phr | Episcopal censure |
| Be wide | phr | be careful |
| Be dog wide | phr | be extra vigilant |
| Beor (pronounced bee-yo) | n | attractive woman |
| Best thing since sliced bread | phr | Epitome of excellence |
| Bibe | n | a girl/woman and means she's a right old cow - from the Waterford area |
| Biddy | n | Meddlesome old woman |
| Bird | n | girl generally, or girlfriend |
| Biro | n | ballpoint pen |
| Bite the back of my bollox | phr | stop bothering me |
| Black | a | very crowded, busy - as in 'town was black!' |
| Blackers | n | blackberries |
| Blackguard (pron. blaggard) | n | a ne'er-do-well/ (v) to give someone a hard time: He's blaggardin' ya |
| Black Stuff,the | n | Guinness |
| Blather | v | talk |
| Bleedin' beemer | n | Very fast German car |
| Bleeding / bleedin' | a | Used to express serious emphasis; e.g. 'The weather was bleedin' terrible' "Where's me bleedin' dinner?" |
| Bleedin' deadly | a | brilliant |
| Blemm | v | Travel at speed |
| Blond with a black skirt | phr | Pint of stout |
| Bloomsday | n | 16th June 1094 |
| Blow | n | hash |
| Blow-in | n | Recent arrival not accepted by native Dubs; Foreigner |
| Blue shirt type of guy | n | 1930's quasi-fascist group |
| Bob | n | a shilling in the old Pounds, shillings and pennies; even though the monetary system changed, the name stuck |
| Bocketty / bockedy | a | Halting, imperfect, physically unstable or impaired |
| Bogey | n | snot; something wrong, as in he's bogey or I got a bogey pint |
| Bogs | n | public toilets |
| Bogtrotter | n | another word for a culchie |
| bold | a | naughty |
| Bollacking | n | to "give out" to someone |
| Bollocks | n | anyone you think is stupid |
| Bolloxed | a | very drunk |
| Bolloxed up | v | screwed up |
| Bolt | v | go fast/ run away |
| Bombardier | n | type of Irish bus |
| Boozer | n | pub |
| Boreen | n | narrow lane or road |
| 'Bout ye? | phr | how are you doing? (Originated in Belfast) |
| Bouzzie, Bowsie | n | young good-for-nothing, who hangs around on street corners |
| Bowler (rhymes with Cow-ler) | n | dog/ugly person |
| box | n | female genitalia |
| Boxin' the fox | phr | robbing an orchard |
| Boyo | n | a bit of a lad |
| Brasser | n | woman of ill repute, who charges but a brass coin for her services |
| Brickin' it | a | nervous to the point of soiling oneself |
| Brown Trout | n | excrement |
| Brutal | a | terrible |
| Bucketing | v | raining very heavily |
| Buckled | v | drunk |
| Buff | n | another word for red-necks, although mostly used by red-necks to describe other red-necks living further out in the countryside, and likely to live on a farm up a mountain somewhere |
| OR | a | naked |
| Bushed | v | exhausted/knackered |
| Business | n | shit - as in, 'I have to do me business' |
| Business | n |
cool - as in, 'It's the
business' when asked about a new film, for example.
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