Irish Dictionary
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| Irish Slang: | ¡@ | meaning in English: |
| Ladhb | n | awkward looking lad |
| Lady Muck | n | a stuck-up woman |
| Langers | a | drunk |
| Lashing | v | raining hard |
| Lashings | a | a lot i.e. lashings of food |
| lay off | exclam | leave me alone, stop it! |
| Legger, do a | phr | to abscond from the scene |
| Legging | v | moving at pace! |
| Letting on | v | pretending |
| Like a blue-arsed fly | phr | running around, hectically busy |
| Little green man | phr | a small bottle of Jameson's |
| Loaf | v | to head butt someone |
| Local, the | n | the nearest pub |
| Locked | a | very drunk |
| Locked in | n | when a pub locks people in after hours so the pub looks closed from the outside |
| Longers | n | long trousers |
| Lose the head | n | to lose control and start a fight |
| Low babies | a | junior infants' school |
| Lurching | v | slow dancing up close |
| Lush | n | a bit of a drinker |