Colloquialisms

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**Ratius**

Leading on from the lad who got arrested at the US airport, heres a few Dublin colloquailisms so you dont get into any trouble over here.
Im sure some of these are used elsewhere, Liverpool springs to mind for one.

Got any good ones from your cities/areas?

Cacks - trousers
Fishbowls - glasses
Runners - sneakers/trainers

Nagon - a 200ml bottle of alcohol
Tab - a cigarrette
Scoops - a few drinks
Goin on the lash - going out to get drunk
Got mortal/getting mortal - to get really drunk
Maccers - mcdonalds
Grub - food

Howyiz (How Yizz) - how are you
The hack of her - the look of her - usually derogatroy
Knacker (K is silent) - an itinerant/member of the travellers - usually derogatroy
Bleedin Knackered - very tired
Gaff - house/dwelling
Shindig - party/event
The scratcher - the dole/welfare
Banjaxed - broken
Bog - toilet
Fethin eejit - idiot
A waffler - someone who talks nonsense
Scrap - having a fight
Shes a Ride - a hot looking girl
Thats sound - thats cool
On my Tobler - on my Toblerone - on your own
Relax the Cacks- Calm Down
In a Jocker - In a bad way

**chromedog**

Banjaxxed is an old one.
(Simon Pegg (scotty) used it in Star trek and I heard it from an Edinburghian a few decades ago).
Same with Gaff.

Some of ours:
Throwdown. 250ml beer bottle. Doesn't even touch the sides.
Stubby: 375ml beer bottle (equivalent to our full size beer measure - the schooner).
Long neck. Beer bottle. 750ml. Two schooners or stubbies.

Most of our colloquialisms are about booze.

**Ratius**

LOL.
Aye stubby is a great one I think.

**Phototoxin**

You forgot -

Craic (Crack) - fun/information/gossip/'buzz' eg: It was great craic last night, or 'What's the craic?'

The Heck with an F - less offensive than feth.

Isn't it naggin instead of nagon?

Also Maccers is more of a D4 thing I though.

**Castiel**

Phototoxin wrote:Craic (Crack) - fun/information/gossip/'buzz' eg: It was great craic last night, or 'What's the craic?'

Taken from Gaelic, don'tcha know!

**Ratius**

A D4 thing

Love it.

Always been nagon to me.
Have you heard of a shoulder? 1/2 the people I talk to have heard of it/know it, the other 1/2 are

**Wee_Tam**

For those of you who barely understand me at times, here are a few websites to help with my language

http://www.aboutlanguageschools.com/slang/royal-marines-slang.asp

http://www.firstfoot.com/dictionary