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What does the word "dose" mean in Irish slang?

  • 27-09-2012 6:03pm
    #1
    silverdolphin
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    There's this facebook page called "Looking at someone and thinking "god you're a DOSE" What does it mean in this context?


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  • #2
    Banjaxed82
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    You're an idiot, fool, etc...


  • #3
    _blank_
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    I wonder where it comes from?

    Is it a variant on "dosey" - as in "ye dosey bollix" (dozey)


  • #4
    who the fug
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    I always used in the context of

    I got right dose of flu or the runs


  • #5
    lertsnim
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    silverdolphin wrote: »
    There's this facebook page called "Looking at someone and thinking "god you're a DOSE" What does it mean in this context?

    Must say that I never heard it used in that context.


  • #6
    _blank_
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    But that's the actual meaning of the word.
    a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, especially of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.

    The meaning and context of the word in the OP is a bit different, I think.

    although, yeah, I can see

    "Oh God, you're a DOSE" - could "Oh god, you're a dose of very horrible stuff"


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  • #7
    who the fug
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    lertsnim wrote: »
    Must say that I never heard it used in that context.

    Maybe we is no longer down with the young folk


  • #8
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    silverdolphin wrote: »
    There's this facebook page called "Looking at someone and thinking "god you're a DOSE" What does it mean in this context?

    Haven't heard it used in that context in years, but it was a pretty common insult when I was a kid in the 70s.


  • #9
    Realtine
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    disease..... you're a right disease so ya are.


  • #10
    Funkfield
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    who the fug wrote: »
    Maybe we is no longer down with the young folk

    Innit though!


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