Random thought...'yer wan'

Not at all. Just Old One. Usually Oul one but also oul wan.

I remember this was discussed here before. In Dublin if a certain group of women or men was sitting in a pub for instance, and they were gossiping about a woman who had just walked in and sat elsewhere in the pub, they might say 'would you look at that one, the state of her!!' Which to translate would be 'look at that woman over there, look at what she is wearing, isn't it shocking/awful/disgraceful/horrible!' It's hard to explain much further really, I just accept that 'your wan' is 'that woman' and 'your man' is 'that man'. It's not nice though. 🙂

"Wan" is official Dublinese for a female. "Fella" is the male equivalent.

You can have, for example, little youngwans, and little fellas. (Small children)

Young wans and young fellas. (The yewth!)

Ould wans and ould fellas. -- that's us.

Yer Wan and Yer Man. (Or yer man and his Mott.)

It is from "one" - not connected with Irish Bean.

Fun fact to finish: "yer wan" are my official pronouns.