term of encouragement, usually when forced to drink something unpleasant. e.g. "but I hate vodka 'n' red bull, it makes me boke" , "ach, houl yer wheesht and horse it into ye"
A kitchen utensil used to chastise Irish children with pre 1990s. Not quite as bad what the catholic church did to children, but an extension of the acceptable level of abuse inflicted on children in those days.