This is the Complete(ish) dictionary of Cork-speak great for day trips to
Cork to ensure you are understood.. Cork people can get their own back by submitting jokes about other counties and they will be posted at the bottom of this page !
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C'mere: Excuse me
I will,yeah: no
What's the story fella? / hows the form? / hows it hanging? : how
are you?
You would yeah: You would'nt dare
Here la: here you are
there la: it's over there/look over there
State a him la: He looks bad
Ah/awe:now
sham: thats good
I claim ya : I would really like to engage in a fight with you.
Pure: very
Two fucks: care
Couldn't give two fucks: I don't care
Like: this word is used at least once in every Cork sentence. Ah
know like you understand don't ya?
Like eh: Used as a hesitation at the start of a sentence.
Nawful: terrible
Bate: beat up used with da fuck e.g. I'll bate da fuck outa ya
have a lash off: have a go
Lash into hash: Smoke cannibas
Be wide: be careful
Be dog wide: be extra careful
How bad bhoy: good Bhoy:(pronounced-by, biya) man/person. Not
necesserily a Celt.
Brasser/stella/tramp/trollup: prostitute
Wan/bure: female
Young wan: female child
Fella/fein/feeno/your man: male
Small fella: Male child
Mam/dad/ole man/ole laid/oul fella/oul wan: mother/father
Apache: joyrider
Salk: stolen car
Sham: young male,hard man or knacker
Sham-feen: macho or hard-man
Snout/gonker/snoz: nose
Gowl(Ghoul): Stupid person
Gimp: Feckin eejit
Fifty: Stood up
Poppies/tatties: Potatoes
Yolkes: ecstasy
Shades/law/blue bottles/pigs/5-0: Garda
Two-bulb/shade mobile(awe now feen pull a leggar): squad car
Pig stie: Garda staton
Speedy: Garda motorbike
Gatch: Walk Snobby
Gammy: deformed / broken
Jag/doing a line/jaggin/meetin a wan/with/: going out with
Gatt/gattin/on the tear/on the piss: drink/drinking
Reef/reefin/mangle: beat up/beating up
Lamp/skanse/la: look
Hangin: Need a fag
