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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,744 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    "Shes that big you could neither turn nor rolll her"

    "reared under the tit of a cow"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭kmick


    He'd walk over 7 naked women for a pint of Guinness.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 TradLad


    Some one who is cheeky:

    He has a neck on him like a jockey's boll*x!!

    Sound as a pound

    Sound as a bell

    Il kick 10 different colours of sh*t outta ya!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 oriain


    Someone who's a quick witted/bit devious:

    he's a rale cute hoor!

    A randy chap:

    Shur he'd get up on a cracked plate!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,744 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    oriain wrote: »
    Shur he'd get up on a cracked plate!
    or the crack of dawn


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,595 ✭✭✭patmac


    These two are related:
    One on the tit and one on the way.

    A fertile man:
    Sure all he has to do is hang his trousers on the end of the bed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    from me travels I've been told the following strike people as being at least something they haven't heard before, but maybe not neccessarily irish.

    That's "the business":as in good, much like "deadly" mentioned earlier.
    Thanks "a million": probably from things like cead mile failte
    "ah yeah, no": you say "ah yeah" as in I hear what you've said, but then you disagree with the statement and say no.

    the only truely Irish thing i can think of is the use of "banjaxed"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭ayatollah


    unnattractive female:

    head on her like a well chawed toffee

    after a particularly vicious deployment of methane from the F.a.o.:

    Followed through on that one!

    unlucky in love:

    couldnt score in a whore house

    Inepetitude:

    Couldnt organise a piss up in a brewrey

    well endowed:

    like a baby's arm holding an apple

    a car which is hard on petrol:

    pass everything bar a petrol station

    sorry know i know some better ones

    suffering from a little intellectual ineptitude!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Danno


    Whats the craic lads?

    Any sca?

    As mane as dyke water

    About as useless as tits on a bull / ashtray on a motorbike

    Not worth a fcuk

    Pyss down yer back and tell ya you're sweating

    Wouldn't hurl snow off a rope

    You'd find it if there were a tenner stuck on it

    He's so mane he wouldn't spend Christmas

    The price of a jacket for a gooseberry

    She couldn't give a flyin fcuk what people thought of her

    Mick: Howya Paddy
    Paddy: Not too rale bad, and urself


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    He wouldn't give you the steam off his piss


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 TradLad


    On someone who is very thin:

    He's so miserable looking one eye wud do him!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    Rough as a Badgers Foreskin.


    and in wexford they use the word Quare a lot

    Quare bad, Quare good, thats a Quare lookin yoke, e's a bit of a Quarefella


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭scheister


    some nice ones i have come across

    For a ugly bird

    Des kelly wud not lay her
    the tide wud not take her out

    unlucky in love
    ya wud not score in an open goal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 389 ✭✭Jamey


    On someone ugly:

    "If you had a head like that you'd fight any dog in town"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 BaldieHewn


    Wonderful quote from the Last Days of the Celtic Tiger - "She has a face on her that would make a Luas take a diversion through a field!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    Villain wrote: »
    or the crack of dawn

    I've always wondered who Dawn is, poor girl.:p

    One that always gets me going, yea I'll do that now - in a minuet.:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    BaldieHewn wrote: »
    Wonderful quote from the Last Days of the Celtic Tiger - "She has a face on her that would make a Luas take a diversion through a field!"

    And pre Celtic Tiger, my Dad always has this one - Sally O' Brien and the way she might look at ya!
    Some advert for Harp larger I belive. :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    its chuir cold today so it is (wexford saying)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    I have just remembered another one that my Dad has, he's from Cork boy!.
    Langer ! - Remember that song ?.
    When I was young - he was calling anyone that annoyed him a langer, long before the song.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    dh0661 wrote: »
    I have just remembered another one that my Dad has, he' from Cork boy!.
    Langer ! - Remember that song ?.
    He was calling anyone that annoyed him a langer, long before the song.
    Langer was said in Cork for years and before the song, you should come across the border more often.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    She has a face on her that would turn milk sour.

    He wouldn't work his way out of a wet paper bag.

    That isn't worth a fiddelers fvck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    I was in a court room a few years ago, while there a case re. a wino was in progress. The Judge asked the defendant if he had drink taken, to which the poor man replied, just a tooth full your Honour.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭danh789


    Nearly never bulled the cow................unless the bull's name was nearly

    As funny as a burning orphanage

    Mother Teresa wouldn’t kiss her

    She has a face on her like a bulldog that's just licked piss off a nettle

    to abuse someone:
    you're nothing but a dirty foreskin

    to someone who has got sunburnt:
    you look like a bit of chicken in a ham sandwich


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭walshs3


    savaiste cabaiste (spelling????)

    Would ya be well?

    pullin' the balls off yourself:p

    sound as a rowler.

    Going around with a sour puss on him/her.

    Whats the story?

    Howz it hangin?

    Refering to the other (female) half

    The quayer yoke (spelt phonetically)

    Refering to your father:

    The auld lad.

    Heard in the big smoke:

    Me head is melted.

    Your wreckin me head/buzz.

    Ah jaysus howye.

    Ill bleedin batter ye!:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 TradLad


    Person not fond of work:

    If there was work in the bed, he'd sleep on the floor!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭radioactiveman


    the insult: He's nothin but a ****ehawk - can't get more irish than that!
    or 'balubas drunk' pretty sure that originated here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Goodluck2me


    I left her with a face like a painters radio!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭FrCrilly


    I'm sweatin' like a paedophile in a Barney suit.

    You're as welcome as a fart in a space suit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭markontap


    "I'm going out for a minute, I'll be back in a sec.."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    You look like a sh1t after a shower.

    He was too weak to fart. (made that one up myself)

    It would freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

    She would put a horn on a deadman.

    Would you look at the gaach of yourman.


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