Halyan

n.

Heard in Monaghan

A rough woman, known as wagon elsewhere. In some parts of the north it can used to call someone a half-shit eejit.

In use

Yer wan is some halyan hiy... Even if she hawd two pedals and a sawddle I wouldn't get up on her!

Posh English

That lady is rather a formidable battleaxe, and quite frankly, even with mechanical assistance, I should decline any romantic entanglement.