About this title: 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 ...
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Description: "Are you a go-boy or a houthern hoor or just a plain oul' decent skin? Do you need your cup of scald or could you live on the skin of a rasher? If these questions are a complete mystery, then Slanguage is the book for you. It is the guide to the words... Dublin: Gill, 2005 (new and expanded edition). xvii, 365pp. Paperback. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: GILL & MACMILLAN
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780717143900ISBN:0717143902
Description: New. Hiberno-English is the common speech of Ireland at various social levels. With upwards of 500 fresh entries and headwords, this third edition offers a clear challenge to those who argue that there is little to distinguish Hiberno-English as an idiom i... read more
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