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Top 10 Irish Slang Terms

Fighting Talk
Are Ye Startin?
An invitation to man to man combat.
 
Bate the bag outta ye

Beat you up

 
Clatter

"Hit him a clatter"

meaning

"hit him a slap"

 
do ye want a kuckle supper
do you want a slap in the mouth
 
Fair dig

Let's fight

 
Gwan ya slabber ye

Generally calling someone a mouthpiece because they just got served verbally or physically!

 
I will bust your dial

 

I will smash your face in

 
I'll knack your melt in wee doll
I shall deal with you in a severe and violent manner young lady
 
ill set

bent on causing trouble.

 

example - "he has an ill set mind" 

 
knock yer pan in
to deal with in a violent manner, to strike percussively
 
Lose The Head

to lose the head is to lose control in anger

 

"mate! will you just back of before I lose the head!" 

 
lyin in 2 north with a bowl of grapes and a bottle of lucozade

ur gonna get emptied so bad you'll be in hospital......SON

 
On yer bike
Get out of here now, please
 
Reef
Attack, non-verbal - e.g. "I'll reef him when I see him"
 
Scrawbed
Scratched by fingernails - e.g. "Her face was all scrawbed"
 
Sling yer hook

Get out of here now, please.

 

"Go'on, sling yer hook, mate."

 
sure c ya!
ur annoying me. . belfast
 
The head on thon was unreal hi!
A way of saying the person in question was acting in a distasteful way.
 
wonder wudye?
Go away
 
you do talk some shite
What you say does not make very much sense
 
Bad Egg

A Troublemarker

 

e.g. - "he's a bad egg that one!"

 
Belt / Belted

To Fight/Assault

 

e.g. "He belted him round the neck!" 

 
do one love wud yee

this means go away and leave me alone in belfast

 
Eat the head off
To eat the head off someone is to shout at them aggressively
 
Feck away aff cumquat!!!
Go away you silly person
 
Hope you like hospital food
i am going to beat you up so bad you'll end up in the rvh
 
I'll bate the beef a ye
A threatening term ususally found being said out side a pub at closing time.
 
I'm all hepped up

"I'm all hepped up" means I'm really angry

 
Knack yer ballix in

Beat you up

 
Lose The Bap
see - "lose the head"
 
Lose The Rag
see - "lose the head"
 
Mon well
"Come on then" - challenging to a fight
 
Pan Them Out
Give A Beating to
 
saunter

a way of telling someone to go away or "clear off"

 
Slap on the Beck

slap on the mouth

 

e.g. "He just hit ye a slap on the beck" or "shut the F#%k up or ill hit ye a slap on the beck!"

 
Sort you out
I'll sort you out now
 
take urself da feck this minute if not sooner!
Go away, the quicker the better for you
 
Wind yer neck in
Wise up
 
Yer face is that sour ye could make yer own yoghurt

You are quite un-attractive