[PDF] A Dictionary Of Cork Slang eBook

Author : Seán Beecher
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This is a collection of those words, not usually found in dictionaries, but which give colour, vigour, and individuality to a language. Each word is explained, examples of usage are given, and their derivations are traced.

Author : Bernard Share
Publisher : Gill
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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Are you a holy terror? Are you a go-boy? Could you live on the skin of a rasher? Or are you so hungry that you eat a farmer's arse through a hedge? When you're on the razz, do you get so buckled, crippled and scuttered that you can't get your back outa the scratcher in the morning? Never mind the answers: if you understand the questions you are in Slanguage country. If you don't, you need to be. This is the dictionary that glosses the words that real Irish people use in the streets each day, every day. Slang is elusive. Some words and phrases are always there. Others slip in and out of usage according to the whims of fashion. This expanded edition of the standard dictionary of Irish slang includes many entries not in the 1997 edition. It has dropped a few that have fallen out of favour and has revised others. In all, this edition is 25 per cent longer than its predecessor. It will confirm Bernard Share's invaluable book in its position as the major work of its kind, combining scholarship and a keen sense of fun. "Slanguage" does justice to it by taking it seriously, but not too seriously.

Author : Garry Bannister
Publisher : DICTIONARY
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781848405202

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Danger: This book contains adult language and may offend your sense of good taste. Do you want to find out what the gaeilgeoir means when he/she uses the Irish words for "nerdy," "well-hung," "effing and blinding," "slimeball," or "drop-dead-gorgeous"? It's all there, with numerous entries under the letters C and F. Already a cult hit, Kiss My... will appeal to the Irish-language student and the open-minded traveler alike.

Author : Bernard Share
Publisher : Gill Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780717143900

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Doolally, on the batter, Belfast confetti, pure mule, crawthumper, flag hopper and fecker come here till I tell you! Hiberno-English is the common speech of Ireland at all social levels. Its continuing vigor and individuality is illustrated here.

Author : Colin Murphy
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1847178944

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The deadliest ever dictionary of Irish slang! Can you tell your cute hoors from your chancers, or your gougers from your gurriers? Do you know a slapper, a snapper, a shaper or a sleeveen when you see one? No? Well, that's coola boola, because we've put together the most massive, mighty and manky collection of Irish slang in history, or at least in donkey's years. So stop acting the maggot and give it a lash! 'Side-splitting ... Irish Slang's the business!' The Sun

Author : Daniel Cassidy
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 9781904859604

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Cassidy presents a history of the Irish influence on American slang in a colourful romp through the slums, the gangs of New York and the elaborate scams of grifters and con men, their secret language owing much to the Irish Gaelic imported with many thousands of immigrants. With chapters on How the Irish Invented Poker and How the Irish Invented Jazz, Cassidy stakes a claim for the Irishness of American English. Includes a preface by Peter Quinn and an Irish - American Vernacular Dictionary.