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Description A
Ah - I or me. "Ah don't feel well"
Ahm - I'm
Aminal - Mispronounciation of animal.
Ampinat? - "Aren't I not?" in context of asking for support from a peer of a claim etc.
Aye - Yes.

B
Ballix - Bollocks, thats bollocks (in centext of disagreement).
Bake - Face
Bate - Beat. "I'll bate u about"
Beef - Penis. "I slipped her tha beef."
Beezer - Good/great.
Beg - Bag.
Bout ye? - Hello. How are you?
Banjaxed - Broken/drunk.
Blacks - Police.
Blackneck - Member of paramilitary organisation.
Buck - Sexual intercourse.

C
Cheeser - See "beezer". Also slang for the drug ecstacy.
Chinky - Chinese food/take away.
Childern - Mispronounciation of "children".
Cracker - See "beezer".
Creamed - Quite tired.
Cyar - Car.
Cyat - Cat.
Carry out - Substantial amount of alcohol purchased from an "Offie" or off-licence.
Crack/craic - Atmosphere. "Whats the crack like?" meaning "what's up?"
Cheerio - Goodbye.

D
Dander - A walk. "Im away fer a dander."
Do'er - Door.
Doughbag - A silly person.
lamara - tomorrow

E
Eejit - Derived from the term Idiot with same meaning.
Eaf aff - Fuck off
Frig - Polite word for "fuck".
Flour - Floor.

G
Get - Insult. "You're a wee fuckin' get"
Geg - Fun.
Gedawaydafuck - Please leave now.
Gis a - Give me a
Gis a feg - May I have a cigarette?
Goes - Often used in place of "said". "I goes 'FUCKIN' HIPPIE BALLICKS!!11' an he goes 'BOUT YER MA?'"
Gutties - Trainers/training shoes.
Gonch - One who talks a lot of shit.
Gizaweehandwillye? - I need some help.

H
Harly - Hardly.
Heel - End of a loaf of bread.
Houl on - Please wait.
Heure - Prostitute.
Here's me - So, I said.

I
Ignernt - Ignorant, annoying.

J
Jawbax - Mouth.
Job - Errand.
Joken - Joking.

K
Kudint - Couldn't.

L
Leenantarsapees - Leaning tower of Piza.
Lingo - Language.
Leek - Like.
Lawd - Lad, fellow.
La - The.

M
Magic - Great/good.
Mawn - Man.
Meat wagon - PSNI land rover.
melt - Head. "I'll knock your melt in"
Milly - Female teenager of ill repute.
Mucker - Friend or mate.
Muller - Mother.
Ma - Mother.

N
Nice one - Well done.
Norman - Bullying term used against loners.
Now yer suken deezl - Now it's working.
Naaaah - No.
Norn Iron - Northern Ireland.

O
Offies - Off-licence.
Oi - Call for attention.
Oxters - Armpits.

P
Prabbly - Probably.
Peeler - Police officer.
Piece - Sandwich.
Pssketty - Mispronounciation of spaghetti.
Purdie - Potato.
Pish - To urinate.
Pished - Drunk.
Piznee - Police Service for Northern Ireland.
Provo - Member of a paramilitary organisation.
Para - See above.

R
Ragin' - Angry.
rurr - Crap. "Don't talk rurr"

S
Samitch - Mispronounciation of sandwich.
Sebm - The number seven.
Shap - Shop.
Shar - Shower.
Slabber - A gossip or used as an insult. "You slabberin?" means "are you tainting my reputation with your lies?"
Spoon - Stupid person.
Spide - Male with bad hair/dress/music sense. Scum.
Sanger - Sausage.
Shirtlifter - Homosexual.
Spide cyar - Car, often vauxhall corsa, with tinted windows and/or alloy wheels.
Spaced - Day dreaming.
Stotious - Very drunk.

T
Ta - Thank you.
Till - Used in place of "to". "I'm away till la shap"
Theee - The number three.
Tube - Stupid person.
Tip - Mess, this place is a tip.


U
Undurstawnd - Understand.

V
Vaka - Vodka.

W
Wee - Put in front of nearly any person/place/think/task. eg. wee drink, wee dander, wee shite.
Wick - Rubbish, crap.
Windie - Window
Windie sill - Window sill
Windielickerz - Term for the mentally disadvantaged.
Wiped out - Under the influence of drugs.
Wazacrack? - How are things?/what's up?
Wee lawd - Young man.
Wee mawn - Penis.
Whaddareyeeleek? - You're acting rather silly.
Weller - Weather.
Whodafuck? - Who do you think you are?

X
X-aklee - Xxactly.

Y
Yu startin? - Are you provoking me intentionally?

Yermaa - Insult which counters all insults. The American equivalent would be "whatever".
Yip - Yes.

Z
Zabrah - Zebra.
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Comments: 75

Bouncy11 [2013-04-26 18:47:40 +0000 UTC]

Ok sorry but thats just shit i live in donegal and we dont evan use half of these words. Btw its not children its WEINS

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TortieLiselle [2012-10-13 16:59:24 +0000 UTC]

Best thing ever, cept you're missin a few

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SugarTripping [2012-01-15 19:55:09 +0000 UTC]

I read all of these in a typical 'Belfast' accent XD

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FlyingFoxBoi [2011-10-05 20:29:39 +0000 UTC]

I live in northern Ireland and havn't heard half of these :L I clearly don't get out much. The title of the dictionary made me laugh xD

An Important note for Northern Ireland: Swearing between every word is very much normal

Oh, and you forgot 'shan'!

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Luckystartard [2011-08-29 19:51:26 +0000 UTC]

douchbag is american :s

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thefact1on [2010-12-10 17:17:25 +0000 UTC]

Up yer doot

yeooooo! (i think this one seriously needs added, tis the staple of our dialect!)

job's a guddin

up yer hole with a big jam roll

up my hole pickin daisies

stroked a cracker

a way and shite

dead on

show is yer hole

gis a wiggle

(norn irish country folk section, also known as ulster scots)

cultchie

give her the timber!

hows she cuttin?

ye rightly boy?!

oh im rightly with the best of them!


FINALLY......

another and possibly the most important addition that needs to be made.......

CRAIC!!!!!!


excellent dictionary my friend, yes tis true, we need to catalogue this kind of talk!!!!!
keep up the good work!!!!!

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FreeDaSausage [2010-08-23 18:57:27 +0000 UTC]

brilliant. I love the way our accent makes English like another language

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StudioNNNy [2010-03-21 21:46:16 +0000 UTC]

spot the fuck on like lol ;D
Agree with the gissa buss nd lat me no ;D

Include Banter ;D

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fatpigeon84 [2010-02-20 08:10:47 +0000 UTC]

What about 'Gone'!!! As in "gone gimme tha'"
-It is used instead of "could you" or "please"
If yer ma wont make u a cup of tea, you can plead "Gone!!!!!!"

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katieemate [2010-01-21 21:42:46 +0000 UTC]

ryt mate wat about ye? ive been lookin in all tha shaps for an "i love yer ma" t shirt so i have nd i cnt seem ta find one! do ye no were i can find 1? sure gissa buzz nd lat me no!

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Ghostofastallion [2009-12-20 15:48:13 +0000 UTC]

lol we have our own language

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cmbunit01 [2009-10-26 22:47:36 +0000 UTC]

Favourite'd. Need to add:

Get 'er lit.

Wise yer bap.

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tiger23321 [2009-10-07 11:14:05 +0000 UTC]

You Forgot
'Yer cats Are dead'

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Danka-Al-Azar [2009-05-05 23:17:15 +0000 UTC]

This is amazingly helpful, not to mention, a bit fun to read out loud. I love the Irish accents.

Thanks for writing this all out!

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lilmslycan [2009-02-13 21:20:53 +0000 UTC]

lol I love it! This really made my day, I try NOT to use most of these words, but the accent doesn't help
I know you're probably sick of people telling you forgot something but "Weeker" should have been in there
Instant favlove

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Erinokaz [2008-12-01 20:51:48 +0000 UTC]

You forgot "Y'all right luv?" 99.9% of the people in my school say that.

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2uniek [2008-07-21 16:08:20 +0000 UTC]

Ack yer bollex! Wind ur neck in, I dont talk leek dat.

aaaaaaAAA! lol

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cateatingbanana [2008-06-10 12:47:47 +0000 UTC]

Yerma dos not mean whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
(U forgaot "tay" - tea)

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simgfx [2007-10-04 11:25:06 +0000 UTC]

wat wat u startin? nee way mate, saunter!

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thefact1on In reply to simgfx [2010-12-10 17:09:04 +0000 UTC]

saunter yes, that needs to be added!

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Zippidydooda [2007-09-26 19:17:27 +0000 UTC]

well im from norn ireland and i though it is good

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jonnyshields [2007-09-20 10:37:53 +0000 UTC]

That is friggin' awesome!
I almost felt like patriotic or something while reading that. There should be a N Ireland deviantART club (which would no doubt break down into hurling sarcastic insults and sectarian abuse), but yeah, instant fave.

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NemoIsEmo [2007-09-16 12:54:17 +0000 UTC]

This is really nice xD
*fav*

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younghappy [2007-07-13 14:48:33 +0000 UTC]

This a great list!

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Illahie [2007-04-02 11:36:56 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely perfect to the punch! XD Well done!

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Captain-Ite [2006-08-02 04:02:54 +0000 UTC]

Haha.. my mother's Irish, so I knew a few of these, but there's lots that a more Northern Ireland-exclusive.. Haha.. But I do know a man from up there who works in Belfast and lives in Dublin.

Good laugh!

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2uniek [2006-07-17 05:10:03 +0000 UTC]

Up the n. Irish!!!

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MrZonko [2006-06-17 16:17:58 +0000 UTC]

Quite funny indeed, bit inaccurate in some parts though. I guess it's localised it Belfast or something.

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kao-tomato [2006-05-12 18:18:22 +0000 UTC]

im pissing mahsel' HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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PoppingWatermelons [2006-03-26 08:14:40 +0000 UTC]

So now I know where I got some of those words from! *shakes fist at northern ireland friends* Awesome job! :+fave:

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mochara [2005-12-13 11:16:10 +0000 UTC]

as a resident of Norn Iron meself i must point out that this dictionary yoke is pure Belfast, am from Derry/Londonderry/Stroke City/whatever meself to get an idea of how we speak up round our part of the country search for a song called 'saunter' by jetplanelanding, happy days keep er lit boss!

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Irish-connection [2005-11-27 19:00:49 +0000 UTC]

a wonderful explination^^

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creamkawaii [2005-11-25 21:39:04 +0000 UTC]

HA I LOVE IT AS I'M FROM FERMANAGH! WELDONE!

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Bee-with-deadlysting [2005-11-24 16:47:28 +0000 UTC]

..............

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shadowdraco [2005-02-23 23:22:12 +0000 UTC]

XD nice one,

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tenaciouscree In reply to shadowdraco [2005-03-02 02:06:30 +0000 UTC]

thanks :F

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sean723 [2005-02-11 16:34:01 +0000 UTC]

thats fuckin hilarious, i use loads of those on a regular basis

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lunarlioness [2005-02-03 08:40:59 +0000 UTC]

Brillant, work quite well for Glasgow as well, I now know that the local neds are not saying ballbag but doughbag, Thank you so much.

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dragonz2 [2004-12-21 23:28:44 +0000 UTC]

omg....this will be a great help for all those tourists and terroists that come to old Ireland to have some craic."now yer suken deezl" i thought it was deisel...but then agin we Irish 'ave rough acents

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tenaciouscree In reply to dragonz2 [2004-12-22 19:21:46 +0000 UTC]

yeah hehe, thanks for adding it to favourite btw

it does mean now your sucking diesel, but its just a way of sayin "yeah now its workin" type of thing lol

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Ultima-Jaybee [2004-09-30 23:07:55 +0000 UTC]

hahaha..... thats fukkin class man!!

funniest thindg iv read in aaaaaages!!!
fukin hilarious...

~Jaybee

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the1bigboy [2004-07-15 15:10:33 +0000 UTC]

oh fuck that is so klass ^_^
im fucking +Favn' this

(also mya i say we all dont talk like that

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tenaciouscree In reply to the1bigboy [2004-07-15 16:21:02 +0000 UTC]

i no, im from northern ireland lol

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the1bigboy In reply to tenaciouscree [2004-07-16 22:52:25 +0000 UTC]

I was saying we all don't talk like that *cof*SMICK*cof*
j/k :licks:

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SaltedSlug [2004-05-29 20:00:29 +0000 UTC]

Wadayaleek!

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elechan [2004-03-25 22:42:31 +0000 UTC]

Nice stuff
I've heard some of those used here near London, but it's funny to hear.

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genisiss [2004-03-19 23:57:48 +0000 UTC]

Feckin' hilarious. I'm a dubliner and would use a good amount of them but like. Some I've never heard. scary northerners and their vocab!

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plif [2004-03-11 00:27:16 +0000 UTC]

lol, my friend. Just came back from doing a comedy gig in Derry...Coulda used this....

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tenaciouscree In reply to plif [2004-03-11 15:53:53 +0000 UTC]

lol i wuda been honoured

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Surf-Chick [2004-03-10 22:53:33 +0000 UTC]

Our country rocks!!

Great job, made me laugh

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