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Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

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Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

She is a rather promiscuous woman

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

How are you

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

To throw with great hasted or roughness

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

In Belfast, if you enter a fast food takeaway and ask for a fish supper, the server may well ask "what's ur cawn" in a broad Belfast accent. To which you might reply "fanta". Over the years it has become commonplace to use this phrase as a greeting. So, instead of "what about ye?", you may say "what's ur cawn?".