Slanguage: A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland
Are you a holy terror? Are you a go-boy? Could you live on the skin of a rasher? Or are you so hungry that you eat a farmer's arse through a hedge? When you're on the razz, do you get so buckled, crippled and scuttered that you can't get your back outa the scratcher in the morning? Never mind the answers: if you understand the questions you are in Slanguage country. If you don't, you need to be. This is the dictionary that glosses the words that real Irish people use in the streets each day, every day. Slang is elusive. Some words and phrases are always there. Others slip in and out of usage according to the whims of fashion. This expanded edition of the standard dictionary of Irish slang includes many entries not in the 1997 edition. It has dropped a few that have fallen out of favour and has revised others. In all, this edition is 25 per cent longer than its predecessor. It will confirm Bernard Share's invaluable book in its position as the major work of its kind, combining scholarship and a keen sense of fun. "Slanguage" does justice to it by taking it seriously, but not too seriously.
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Other editions - View all
Slanguage: A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland Bernard Share No preview available - 1997 |
Slanguage: A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland Bernard Share No preview available - 2003 |
Slanguage: A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland Bernard Share No preview available - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
1908 Lynn Doyle 1913 Alexander Irvine 1922 James Joyce 1938 Seumas MacManus 1951 Sam Hanna 1966 Patrick Boyle 1987 Lar Redmond 1995 Phil O'Keeffe abbrev Ballygullion Behan Belfast Brit called Cats are Grey Cobbled Streets derog Dinneen drink Drumlister Dublin Emerald Square endearment suffix exclam Flann O'Brien Frank O'Connor girl Grose Hanna Bell Healy Hence Hib.E Hugh Leonard idem Ireland Irish James Joyce John McGahern Liberties Childhood Livin Lynn Doyle Malachi Horan Remembers Mary Ryan Michael Verdon Myles na gCopaleen nickname Night All Cats O'Farrell one's onomat Paddy Patrick Kavanagh Peadar O'Donnell person poss potatoes Road to Dublin Rocky Road Roddy Doyle RTÉ Radio Sean sense Shane Connaughton Shawlies q.v. Shoes in Summer Stories Sunday Tribune Ulster Ulysses W.F. Marshall wee q.v. woman