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Pages in category "Irish slang" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Culchie; F. Feck; G.
gob – (literally beak) mouth. From Irish gob. (OED) grouse – In slang sense of grumble, perhaps from gramhas, meaning grin, grimace, ugly face. griskin – (from griscín) a lean cut of meat from the loin of a pig, a chop. hooligan – (from the Irish family name Ó hUallacháin, anglicised as Hooligan or Hoolihan).
clabber, clauber (from clábar) wet clay or mud; curdled milk. clock O.Ir. clocc meaning "bell"; into Old High German as glocka, klocka [15] (whence Modern German Glocke) and back into English via Flemish; [16] cf also Welsh cloch but the giving language is Old Irish via the hand-bells used by early Irish missionaries.
Sláinte, Banjaxed, Stall the ball? Anyone can wear green on Saint Patrick's Day, but do you know what these Irish words mean and how to say them?
Hiberno-English [a] or Irish English (IrE), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. [7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being yet ...
The second more direct origin of the current usage comes from 1914 when James Joyce used the Irish slang gas to describe joking or frivolity. During the "Jazz Age," the expression was picked up by ...
UK slang term for Community Support Officers, acronym for "Completely Hopeless in Most Policing Situations". [14] [verification needed] Chota Central American and Mexico slang term for police. [15] Cig Pronounced / ˈ k i ɡ / with a hard C; used to refer to inspectors in the Irish police force, An Garda Síochána. Derived from the Irish name ...
It is not for Hiberno-English words or phrases (except where those originate from the Irish language). Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories ...