Wild Irish Envy (Copperline #2) (2 page)

coddle:
(n) a one-pot Irish dish commonly consisting of roughly sliced pork sausages and rashers with sliced potatoes and onions

craic:
(n) fun time and good conversation (pronounced ‘crack’)

crisps:
(n) potato chips

culchie:
(n) a city dweller’s name for a country person

da:
(n) father

dodgy:
(n) suspect

dollybird:
(n) a woman who is all dressed up to the nines

donkey’s years:
(n) a very; very long time

dosser:
(n) layabout; useless; lazy person

d’yaknowhwatimeanlike:
(phr) do you know what I mean?

Dub:
(n) someone from Dublin

eejit:
(n) idiot

feck:
(n) used instead of the other f-word

feckin’ Jaysus:
(phr) invocation of Christ’s name in an incredulous and unbelieving manner

fella:
(n) male person; also used for boyfriend, husband, partner

fierce:
(a) very

fine thing:
(n)

fine bit of stuff:
(n) admiring comment on member of opposite sex

fluthered:
(a) drunk

footie:
(n) football (i.e., soccer)

fuckhead:
(n) derisory term denoting a total feckin’ gobshite, moron, or other malodious form scum

get up on a stiff breeze:
(phr) easily aroused

give her the business:
(phr) have sexual intercourse with

gob:
(n) mouth

gobshite:
(n) idiot; exclamation of disapproval at anyone or anything

gobsmacked:
(a) very surprised

gossún:
(n) child

grand day for the ducks:
(phr) pissing rain

he’d shag a crack in a plate:
(phr) will feck damn near anyone

hi:
can come at the beginning or the end of any sentence; really has no meaning whatsoever hi!

hoor:
(n) woman of loose morals

hooring:
(v) being slutty and sleeping around

howya:
greeting

horse it in:
(phr) to sexually ravage

jacks:
(n) toilet

Jaysus:
(phr) Jesus; common expression of disbelief or despair        

Jaysus bleedin’ ting:
(phr) some infernal source of consternation that causes untold grief

johnny:
(n) condom

knackered:
(v) very tired

knickers:
(n) ladies’ underwear

knockers:
(n) breasts

knocking knickers:
(phr) having sex

lift:
(n) elevator

loo:
(n) toilet

lorry:
(n) a truck, especially a large one

ma:
(n) mother

manky:
(a) filthy dirty

nob:
(n) penis

not worth a shite to me:
(phr) used when someone offers you something which is of no practical value

off his face:
(phr) very drunk or high

off your nut:
(phr) crazy

Pasty:
(n) a large, round patéd pie eaten in Northern Ireland… and Butte

peeler:
(n) policeman

put a Santa hat on it and call it Randal:
(phr) messed up; crazy; beyond understanding

posh:
(a) high class

rashers:
(n) pieces of bacon

relax the cacks:
(phr) calm down

ride:
(n) an attractive person or (v) to have sex

right:
(a) very

rock on:
(n) erection

savage:
(a) very severe or excellent

savage ride:
(n) great sex

scarlet:
(a) blushing

scrubber:
(n) female of low morals

shades:
(n) police

shag:
(v) have sex

shaggin’:
(a) the act of having intercourse

shite:
(n) shit

shlossed:
(a) very drunk

shopping trolley:
(n) shopping cart

slagging:
(v) teasing or making fun of someone

slán:
goodbye

snapper:
(n) child

snog:
(n) kiss

sod:
(n) chap; fellow

sod off:
(n) leave

spiteful ride:
(n) hard rough sex

stocious:
(a) drunk as a lord

Taytos:
(n) crisps (i.e., potato chips); brand name, but most refer to crisps as Taytos

throwing a feckin’ moody:
(phr) getting upset and angry

toke:
(n) a drag of marijuana

tosser:
(n) wanker

wank:
(n) to masterbate

wanker:
(n) an uninteresting person; usually someone you can’t stand

what in the Jaysus?:
(phr) exclamation

whatcha goin’ mad for?:
(phr) used to irritate someone who is getting angry

would ya ever just feck off?:
(phr) go away and leave me alone

young wan:
(n) a young woman

you’re grand:
(phr) a term to tell someone no or that you are fine

May, four years ago

She stood there in the faint haze of dusk. Staring out the window, over the fields before her and the mountains that lined the horizon. Off to the west, the setting sun cast a breathtaking purple-pink glow across her features, lighting the tear tracks down her cheeks.

I knew I was the last person who should offer her comfort. She was Trent’s girlfriend. Never mind that I saw her first. Never mind that she had once smiled at me and I saw a bit of peace. That I had wanted her before he even knew her.

I had just never told him that. Or her.

“Fliss?” I softly said, and she sniffed and quickly wiped her eyes, not looking over at me, but instead dropping her face down and away. Inhaling a steadying breath and straightening a bit, she blinked rapidly to clear the tears from her eyes as she looked again out the window.