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Top 10 Irish Slang Terms

Drinking
Alco / Alcho

To drink alot, usually meant as a comedy term.

 

"go on ye alcho ye!"

 
as full as a paisley church on sunday
Not Drunk
 
awk ye couldnt drink tae!
You are very poor at drinking
 
Black Stuff

in reference to Guiness beer

 

e.g. "i'll have a pint of the black stuff!" 

 
Blootered
Blootered = Drunk
 
Downing the Black.
Drinking a Guinness.
 
Fancy a few scoops?
Would you like to partake in the consumation of a number of sociable drinks with my good self?
 
For the Ken Lee

For jokes, for a laugh hello!

 
Full as a bingo bus on a friday evenin
The person in question was quite intoxicated
 
gipe
eejit e.g. "what a total and utter gipe"
 
i was full drunk

slang for getting, well, drunk

 
Jammers

plural of jammer - more than one stolen car

or

a tight area where there are alot of people. "that area is jammers!"

 
Juice

A Belfast slang term for alchohol, Juice can mean beer, wine, shots, spirts or just about any type of alchahol.

e.g. "here fella! you on the juice th'night?"

 
Lily The Pink

Rhyming slang for 'drink' meaning an alcohol drink; beer, spirits, or a cocktail.

 

e.g. - "You going out for a few lillys?"

 
My mouth's licka fur boot.

My mouth's licka fur boot.

^ Dehydrated (normally associated with a hangover)

 
On the rip

Meaning going on the drink, going to the pub

 

"Here fella, you gonna go on the rip?"

 
pished as a fart
to be extremely drunk
 
Pre Swell

Drinking a carry out in the house before you go out to a club / bar.

 
Rote Of

Extremely Drunk

e.g. " Jimmy there was Rote Of lastnight!" 

 
rubbered
drunk
 
skitter

1. an annoying young person.e.g. " I cant sell ye fags Davy, not if you're just goin to give them to them wee skitters standin outside the off-lisence"

2. a semi solid piece of faecal excretia e.g. "I shouldn't have horsed thon curry into me last night. I've gone and caught a dose o' the skitters"

 
Steamin'

absolutely drunk!

e.g ''i was absolutely steamin last night hi''

 
Swallyin'
Swallowing - usually referring to drinking - "Up for some Swallyin?"
 
The hair of the dog

After a night of boozing its the drink that's suppose to cure the headache." Aye right jack LOL"

 
volvo
Vodka and coke
 
wrote off
donegal term for someone wasted
 
Yer mawn was havin a cracker o' a time
The person in question was having a good time.
 
Your ass is grass !

You're in for it !

 Usually followed by 'and i'm a lawnmower' which can be interperated into 'i'm gonna beat ye' or 'i shall be the one to put you in your place !'

 
As full as a Catholic School
So Drunk You couldn't take any more
 
as full as the last bus home

Not Drunk

 
Baite

Beat, usually meaning tired,

 

e.g. "i'll tell ye! i'm baite tonight!"

 
bladdered

Drunk.

 

"I was completely bladdered last night"

 
boozic
This is a fairly new word being used in Omagh. Its used by those who like to drink and play music at the same time.
 
Elephants
Drunk
 
Fluthered
Drunk - e.g. "He was fluthered again"
 
Full as a 9 weel keyart
Intoxicated to the point of falling down
 
full as a gypsies bra

When someone is extremely drunk and the amount of alcohol they have taken can be compared to the amount of stolen goods in the bra of a female of the traveliing community.

Jez boys im in back nick the day, I was as full as a gypseys bra last night.

 
Goin fer a swall

Goin to the off licence for a drink

or

Goin to drink alcohol

 
I've a throat on me

wanting to drink alcohol

 
Johnny-jump-up
A pint of magners mixed with a pint of guiness
 
Langered/Langers
Drunk - "We were all langers"
 
mothers ruin
Gin
 
not a kick in the arse off...

expression used to denote an unspecified amount. e.g " thon Judy Finnegan, she wouldn't be a kick in the arse off 60"

 
out on the razzle
A night out
 
plastered
drunk
 
rev up or f*ck aff
a way to shame someone into drinking quicker
 
rotten
rotten a term to describe someone intoxicated in sligo boi!
 
shuck water
Donegal saying for Guinness
 
snattered
pished
 
Stocious
Drunk - e.g. "He was stocious this evening"
 
Talkin like a wet wellyboot

Very drunk

 
two sheets to the wind

A way of saying someone is half cut or quite drunk due to a large consumption of alcohol.

Hi lawd you look ruff the day, where you two sheets to the wind last night?

 
wa wa

north antrim slang for belfast people

"yeah, you know by the way that he speaks that hes a wa wa"

 
Yer Ma!

way of saying 'yeah right'. or derogotory comeback.

 
You're a can short of a six pack
Not the smartest person around