Mayo Slang

Mayo slang, straight from the people who use it. Here are the best Mayo words and phrases on slang.ie, most popular first, each with a meaning and a Posh English translation.

  • Wreck the headMayo +3

    An annoying or tiresome person.

    For fuck sake that beure is sucha fucking Wreck The Head!

  • HapeMayo +7

    A large quantity or great heap of something.

    There's a absolute hape of women inside the marquee dancin'!

  • FluteMayo +8

    A foolish, annoying, or incompetent person.

    He's an awful flute that fella, crashing the tractor into the ditch!

  • FoosterinMayo +6

    Fiddling or messing with something.

    He's always foosterin with somethin.

  • DivilmentMayo +5

    Mischief, roguery or general devilment.

    Any divilment last night?

  • YonksMayo +5

    Ages. A very long time.

    I havn't seen him in yonks

  • UnrealMayo +4

    Exceptional, superb, or strikingly attractive.

    Did you see her? she was unreal.

  • MushaMayo +6

    A term often used at the beginning of a sentence, roughly meaning well or indeed.

    Were you at home all day?
    Musha I was

  • GawksMayo +3

    A powerful urge to retch or vomit.

    He had a big snother hanging out of his nose, I got the gawks just looking at him.

  • Soonie da bureMayo

    An exclamation of profound shock, disbelief, or astonishment at someone's audacity.

    Soonie da bure, look at her tinkin' she's class just because she bought a new hat!

  • AraMayo +4

    Term used at the start of a sentence to make it sound like you do not care.

    Didja see Mitchels v Ballina earlier? Ara I did, it was rubbish

  • CutMayo +4

    The state or appearance of someone or something.

    Would ya look at the cut of me slacks, they're in shite!

  • TashteMayo +1

    Excellent, lovely or brilliant.

    Oh...that car is tashte!

  • GuttersnipeMayo +1

    A low life or tramp. Also completely useless.

    Stay well away from me ya gutter snipe
    Yer man is a pure guttersnipe

  • LushMayo +3

    Drink, meaning alcohol itself: going on the lush is going drinking, and lushed means drunk. Elsewhere a lush is the drinker, not the drink.

    We were on the lush in Castlebar all weekend and I'm still not right.

  • ShupMayo +4

    An abrupt command to stop talking.

    Shup Barry gud lad.

  • ClembotMayo

    A fool exhibiting distinctly robotic or mechanical tendencies.

    Look at the clembot walk on that hump back cyborg buff.

  • JushtMayo +1

    Just.

    I was jusht down there a minute ago

  • CribbinMayo +2

    Complaining or grumbling.

    She doesn't schtop cribbin

  • I was shittin a brick hayMayo

    Scared or terrified.

    I was scared

Lash one out!