In order to help people in their dealings with NorrieRallying.com, here is a dictionary of

CORK SLANG

Part 1: Expressions

  • C'mere Excuse me
  • I will,yeah No
  • What's the story fella? How are you?
  • How's the form? How are you?
  • How's it hanging? How are you?
  • You would yeah You wouldn't 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 That's good
  • I claim ya I would really like to engage in a fight with you.
  • Pure very
  • Langie Hanging onto the back of a lorry –“ I got a langie off the back of a Southern Fruit Truck yesterday.”
  • Like this word is used at least once in every Cork sentence.
  • Like eh Used as a hesitation at the start of a sentence.
  • Nawful terrible
  • Bate beat up
  • Have a lash off Have a go
  • Lash into hash Smoke cannabis
  • Be wide Be careful
  • Be dog wide Be extra careful
  • How bad bhoy Good
  • Bhoy man/person. Not necessarily a Celt
  • Lapsi Pa Non existent disease That fella has a touch of the lapsi pas.

Part 2: Nouns & verbs

  • Brasser/stella/tramp/trollup Prostitute
  • Jammy Rag Tampon
  • Wan/bure Female
  • Young wan Female child
  • Fella/fein/ feeno/your man Male
  • Small fella Male child
  • Mam, ole laid, ole wan Mother
  • Ole fella Joyrider
  • Apache A young person up to no good
  • Salk Stolen car
  • Sham-feen Macho or hard-man
  • Snout/gonker/snoz Nose
  • Gowl(Ghoul) Stupid person
  • Gimp Idiot
  • Fifty Stood up
  • Poppies/tatties Potatoes
  • Shades/law/blue bottles/pigs/5-0 Garda
  • Rubber Dollies Trainers: Dunnes are selling daycent rubber dollies for a tenner
  • Two-bulb/shade mobile Squad car
  • Pig stye Garda station
  • Gatch Walk
  • Gammy Deformed
  • 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
  • Droppin/Waz Need to go to the toilet/restroom
  • Wah /Whacker Not a nice person
  • Norrie Person from Northside of the Cork City.
  • Ucks The end of an apple -I bags the ucks
  • Manage Type of savings scheme often run amongst families and friends. Loans can be taken interest free to pay for stuff. If you are passing Lough Road drop in the manage money for me

Part 3 :Place Names

  • Grawn Gurranabraher
  • Knocka Knocknaheeney
  • Mahn Mahon
  • Da Han Ballyphehane
  • Toker Togher
  • Da Glen The Glen
  • Pana St. Patrick Street
  • Flying bottle The HolyHill Inn
  • Da Peace Park Bishop Lucey Park
  • Clon Clonakilty
  • Crosser Crosshaven
  • Da Cross Turners Cross Football Ground

How to understand Cork fellas, boy

- It doesn't matter if you are 18 or 80, you get called "Boy" or "Girl". This keeps ye young.

- Even on the busiest Saturday there's always a bit of open space in Patrick Street. It's near the religious freak with the microphone.

- That big heavy fella on Pana selling Echos still looks the exact same as he did when you were about 5.

- The Cork motto is "Hurling, s*x and rock n roll!"

-Boy Racers on Harbour View Road have the unique ability to accelerate to 90 mph, then brake to a standstill within the space of 100 yards.

- Boys out on the town wear a sleeveless t-shirt and no jacket even when it's freezing.

-Girls out on the town wear plunge necklines and mini skirts even when it's freezing.

-Cork has only four letters. This saves a massive amount of typing time compared to living in say Castletown Berehaven. You are also less likely to make spelling mistakes living in Cork.

-Wine would come in ring pull cans if we didn't have Cork.

-Visitors stand at the bar for ages waiting to get served and saying "yes thank-you I'm very well, thanks for asking" when the bar staff ask "are you all right?"

-Women drink pints.

-That when a Cork guy says "I will yeah!" He means he won't.

- In the event of war in Europe we are a long way away and the roads here will slow them up.

-If it escalates to a nuclear conflict, the prevailing winds here are Westerly.

-Cafe culture... flagons of cider being sipped and watching the world go by.

-Listening to buskers who only know three lines of a song, on the basis that this is how long it takes you to pass by.

- That psycho "Pana man" who stands on Pana in a Cork jersey with headphones on him bopping away to himself. Ledge -

Dublin is at the other side of the country (and the roads slow them up).