Irish Slang

PHRASE / MEANING / EXAMPLE

• Acting the Maggot / Fooling and messing around / Stop acting the maggot
  
• Banjaxed / Broken / The chair is banjaxed
• Black Stuff / Guinness / A pint of the black stuff please
• Boyo / Male, Juvenile / Come on you boyo!
• Bucketing down / Raining hard / It is bucketing down
• Chancer / Someone who takes a risk / He’s a real chancer 
• Cod/Codding ya / To pull someone’s leg / I am only codding ya!
• Craic / Fun, Gossip, What’s Going on / Where’s the craic?
• Deadly / Brilliant, Fantastic, Great / That was a deadly film
• Donkey’s years / For a very very long time / They have lived there donkey’s years
• Dosser / Someone not working or is messing about, up to no good / They are a couple of dosser’s
• Eejit / Complete fool, doing something silly / You are such an eejit
• Grand / Alot of Uses, most popular are: reply to How are you, How are you feeling, Being told of a decision / We will meet you there – “Grand”; Dinner will be 10 minutes – “Grand”
• Jacks / Toilet / I’m off to the jacks 
• Jo Maxi / Taxi, cab / We can get a jo maxi in later
• Langers / Drunk / She was totaly langers last Friday
• Lash / 3 meanings – To rain hard, To make an attempt at something or To go out drinking / It was lashing out of the heavens, Give it a lash or Let’s go on the lash Saturday
• Mortified / Highly Embarrassed / I was mortified when i realised my mistake
• Mot / Girlfriend (Dublin slang) / Where’s your mot tonight?
• Savage / Great, Brilliant / It was a savage contest till the end
• Scarlet / Very embarrassed / I was scarlet
• Shattered / Exhausted / After driving, I was shattered
• Sorry / Means Sorry and also Excuse me, Pardon me / Sorry, can I get in there please
• Story? (What’s the craic) / Hi, What’s happening / What’s the story Rory?
• Suckin’ diesel (Now you’re) / Now your talking, Now your doing well / Now you are suckin diesel my friend!