Irish Dictionary
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| Irish Slang: | ¡@ | meaning in English: |
| Wafer | n | ice cream sandwiched between two flat wafers |
| Wagon | n | ugly female |
| Walrus | n | fifty pounds in money |
| Wanker | n | an uninteresting person, usually someone you can't stand |
| Want in him, there's a | phr | he's a bit slow |
| Warped | a | very drunk |
| Weapon | n | it's great i.e. it's a weapon |
| Wear | v/n | a very deep heavy kiss, with full tongue action - stuck into somebody so much it's like you're wearing them. Common phrase, 'to wear the head off somebody' is to give them an extremely long and hard 'wear' Common in Dublin. In danger of being replaced by the English 'To Snog' |
| West Brit | n | excessively anglophile |
| Wet the tea | v | make tea (comes from the practice of wetting the leaves in the bottom of the pot) |
| Whiff | n | a smell |
| Whist | v | keep quiet |
| Wick | a | crap |
| Wojus | a | poor or bad; "That tea is wojus." |
| Wrecked | a | very tired |