lash

en-adj

lash (comparative more lash, superlative most lash)

more lash (comparative)
most lash (superlative)

We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!

That Chinese (food) was lash!


hurl

en-noun

hurl (countable and uncountable, plural hurls)

Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.

Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 413:

(Ulster, Scotland, slang, countable) A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.


yell

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).


quim

en-adj

quim (comparative more quim, superlative most quim)

more quim (comparative)
most quim (superlative)

Borrowed from Scots queem. Compare English queem.

(Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.


shank

en-verb

shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)

shanks (present singular third-person)
shanking (participle present)
shanked (participle past)
shanked (past)

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).


wad

wad (third-person singular simple present wads, present participle wadding, simple past and past participle wadded)

wads (present singular third-person)
wadding (participle present)
wadded (participle past)
wadded (past)

Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal.
Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”), German Wat, Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, watten (“cotton wool”), West Frisian waad, Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.


stour

From Middle English store, stoor, stour (“tall, powerful”), from Old English stōr (“tall, great, mighty, strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz (“great, big, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- (“steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky”).
Cognates
Akin to Scots stour (“tall, large, great, stout”), Saterland Frisian stor (“great, many”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian stor (“large, great”), Icelandic stórr (“large, tall”), Polish stary (“old, ancient”), Albanian stër- (“big, huge”). Compare also stoor, steer, stately.

cog

(UK dialectal, Ulster) A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.


airlocked

en-adj

airlocked (comparative more airlocked, superlative most airlocked)

more airlocked (comparative)
most airlocked (superlative)

Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (“to stop suddenly”), which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.

It was sporadically interrupted by Sam standing up and spreading his arms high and wide to exclaim, 'I'm fuckin' airlocked! I'm fuckin' airlocked!' He was letting everyone know that he was indeed quite drunk.

2018 April 18, Alan Croft, There's Always Risk in Movement: Tales from Old Reading Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

(Northern Ireland, Ulster) Extremely drunk.


loon

From Middle English louen, lowen (“rascal; rogue”), probably of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. Compare Dutch loen (“simpleton”). Or, related to sense 2, due to the bird's loud cry. Folk etymology associates it slang-wise with lunatic, though the latter may have influenced it; see loony.

(chiefly Scotland, Ulster) A boy, a lad.


glassy

From Middle English glasy, equivalent to glass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian glääsich (“glassy”), Dutch glazig (“glassy”), German Low German glasig (“glassy”), German glasig (“glassy”).


hank

From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hǫnk (compare haki (“something bent”)), related to Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”). Akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.


knowe

(chiefly Scotland and Ulster) A small hill; a knoll.


loaning

From loanin, an alternative spelling of the Northern English noun lonnen + -ing.

She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.

1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 231:

(Northern England, Scotland, Ulster) A lane.


cutty

A man who reared ten cubs and three cutties.

1993, Ray Givans, No Surrender, Castlecaulfield, Lapwing Publications, →ISBN, page 14:

The point of the example is educational, moral, and the moral qualities of the stories attracted Peter Flanagan who remembered them from childhood and told them to the cutties and cubs when he was, for them, a funny old man.

2016 September 12, Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

(Northern Ireland, Ulster) A girl or young woman.


earles

From Scottish arles, from Middle English erles, from Old French erres (modern French arrhes), from Latin arrha.


cub

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”).
Compare Icelandic and Old Norse kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”). Compare also English cob.

unk

unknown

der

(Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.


loun

From either Scots loon (“boy, lad”) or Middle Dutch loen (“fool, lout”).


dootsie

en-adj

dootsie (comparative more dootsie, superlative most dootsie)

more dootsie (comparative)
most dootsie (superlative)


nippit

nippit (comparative more nippit, superlative most nippit)

more nippit (comparative)
most nippit (superlative)


not while pussy's a cat

en-adv

not while pussy's a cat (not comparable)


gype

From Scots gype (“foolish, awkward person”). Compare Old Norse geip (“nonsense”).


fendy

en-adj

fendy (comparative fendier, superlative fendiest)

fendier (comparative)
fendiest (superlative)

From Scots fendie (“able to look after oneself, thrifty, active, healthy, lively”).


insleeper

(Ulster) visitor who will spend the night, overnight guest


menseless

Borrowed from Scots menseless, equivalent to mense + -less.


skite-the-gutter

They pulled into the Houlihans’ driveway at three o’clock. Larry, the younger of the two, the one who had turned skite-the-gutter in the hunger strike, opened the door. O’Gorman threw him inside with a shove that sent him flying down the hall on his back.

1999 November, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness, New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 142:

it is strange that only you think i am doomhead. others around here know better. it just proves you're a headbin who's just rifting around here. ask birdy if you don't understand that. if you scunner her as much as you scunner me you'll not get an answer, just proves you're a skite the gutter which everybody but you already knows.

2004 September 9, Captain Coulston, “Re: Proof that Wahid Azal's new book is selling”, in talk.religion.bahai (Usenet):

Most of the violence was verbal rather than physical, but their shrill voices operated on the same frequency as one of those novelty rape alarms[…]. They called one another all manner of local names in their turbulent exchanges: binlid, dirtbird, blirt, girney gub, scut, skite-the-gutter, galeeried gunterpace, thundergrub, spoon and sponge.

2008, Christopher Marsh, A Year in the Province: Being the Memoir of Jesús Sánchez Ventura, London: Beautiful Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 105:

(Ulster) An unimportant or irresponsible person; a good-for-nothing.


up the country people

(Ulster) people from any part of Ireland except northeast Ulster


headbin

(Ulster) An unstable or eccentric person.