Chancer

adj.

Heard in Kilkenny, Wicklow, Galway, Longford, Kildare, Dublin and Limerick

A cheeky, brazen or dodgy person.

In use

You are some chancer.

Posh English

You are a most impudent bounder.

Same phrase, other counties

  • DodgySuspicious, unreliable, of poor quality, or potentially dangerous.
  • Dodgy boxA device used to illegally receive satellite television.
  • A neck like a jockeys arseSaid of a chancer or someone who takes excessive liberties.
  • Hard neckCheek or effrontery. A chancer.
  • LatchacoA rascal, chancer, or general troublemaker up to no good.