| Word or phrase | Example | Meaning |
| Acting the maggot | He was just acting the maggot as usual | Behaving foolishly, annoyingly |
| Bags | He made a bags of doing it | Messy inadequate job (see hames) |
| Banjaxed | It was banjaxed beyond all help | Broken, can also mean tired |
| Bold | You are a very bold boy | Naughty |
| Crack, craic | We had great craic that night | Hard to translate, roughly meaning fun |
| Culchies | The culchies were all over the place | Rural people, usually used disparagingly by city people |
| Cute hoor | I always knew he was a cute hoor | Untrustworthy male person, often a politician |
| Desperate | The place is in a desperate state | Bad, needing attention |
| Drawers | Her drawers were the size of Cork | Knickers, panties |
| Eat the head off | I'll eat the head off her | Attack verbally |
| Eejit | You're a right eejit | Idiot, fool |
| Fair play | Fair play to you | Indicates approval of someone's actions or opinions |
| Feck | Feck off, fecking thing, feck-all | Polite(-ish) version of other F word |
| Fella | Come here young fella | Male person, also used for boyfriend |
| Flitters | The dog left the shirt in flitters | Tatters |
| Fluthered | He was fluthered again | Drunk |
| Foostering | Just foostering about | Not getting much done, fussing |
| Full shilling | He's not the full shilling | Mentally competent |
| Gas | We had a bit of gas that day | Fun, enjoyment |
| Giving out | The teacher was always giving out to the class | Scolding. |
| Gob | He never shuts his gob | Mouth |
| Gobdaw | That fella's a right gobdaw | Fool, idiot |
| Gom | You're just acting the gom | Fool, idiot |
| Guff | Don't give me any of your guff | Idle talk or excuses |
| Gur | He's been on gur since Saturday | Staying away from home, usually a child |
| Hames | You made a terrible hames of that | Messy inadequate job (see bags) |
| Header | Keep away from that header | Mentally unstable person |
| Holliers | Two weeks holliers for me | Holidays, vacation time |
| Holy show | You made a holy show of yourself | Spectacle |
| Hop | He's been on the hop since Tuesday | Playing truant from school |
| Horse's hoof | That's a bit of a horse's hoof I think | Spoof, exaggerated story |
| Hump off | Would you ever hump off? | Go away, leave me alone |
| Jackeens | The jackeens think they're smart | Dublin person, usually used disparagingly by culchies |
| Jacks | I'm just off to the jacks | Toilet, restroom |
| Jaded | We're all jaded after it | Tired, exhausted |
| Kibosh | He put the kibosh on it | Added the last straw, completely banjaxed something |
| Langered/Langers | We were all langers | Drunk |
| Letting on | I was just letting on | Pretending |
| Mary Hick | That dress is really Mary Hick | Unfashionable, drab |
| Messages | I have to get the messages | Groceries |
| Mooching | He's mooching again for money | Sponging, almost begging |
| Mot | Have you got a mot? | Girlfriend |
| One | Some oul' one told her | Female person |
| Pictures | Want to come to the pictures? | Movies, Cinema |
| Puck | He got a puck in the gob | Sharp blow |
| Puss | She'd a right puss on her | Face, usually sulky |
| Reddener | She took a reddener when she saw him | Blush (see Scarlet) |
| Reef | I'll reef him when I see him | Attack, non-verbal |
| Scarlet | I'm scarlet for you | Blushing, often in sympathy with a friend's reddener |
| Scratcher | He's always in the scratcher | Bed |
| Scrawbed | Her face was all scrawbed | Scratched by fingernails |
| Shook | He was very shook looking | Pale, ill, scared |
| Slagging | I'm only slagging you | Making fun of someone, generally good-naturedly |
| Sleeveen | She's a bit of a sleeveen | Sly person, calculating |
| Stocious | He was stocious this evening | Drunk |