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Babby (n): little child - baby
Baby Power (n): miniature bottle of Powers Irish Whiskey (favoured size for ladies handbags)
Backer (n): riding on the back of a bike while someone pedals up front; as in "gis a backer on your bike"
Bad dose (n): tough old time with illness
Bad egg (n): a dodgy bloke or a troublemaker
Bag of Taytos (n): packet of cold potato chips a.k.a. crisps
Bags (n): messy job also means plenty
Bake (n): face/mouth
Baldy, as in "I haven't got a baldy" (phr): I haven't a clue
Ball of shite (n): as in, my dad's old car was a ball of shite
Ball-bag (n): scrotum but used to mean total idiot
Balls (n): to mess up, e.g. I made a balls of that job
Balls (n): male genitalia
Baluba (n): "stop acting like a Baluba". Horseplay, rough housing. Derived from the Baluba tribe Belgian Congo. Several Irish soldiers were killed by them in the early 1960s
Banger (n): old car
Bang on (a): perfectly correct
Banjaxed (a): broken, no good
Bap (n): bread bun
Barm brack (n): cake eaten at holloween, from gaelic bareen brack = a feckled cake
Barrelling (v): rushing around (with purpose?)
Baths (n): public swimming pool
Battle cruiser (n): the pub; rhymes with boozer.
Baz (n): pubic hair
Bazzer (n): haircut
Beamer (n): to be embarrassed - See Redner
Bean flicker (n): lesbian
Bean-jacks (n): ladies toilet
Begorrah (exclam): be god (no self-respecting Irish person says this. Sorry, Hollywood)
Bejappers (exclam): as above
Bells (n): time, e.g. 10 Bells (10 o'clock)
Be L.O. (n): keep a look out
Belt (v): hit, assault
Be wide (phr): be careful
Be dog wide (phr): be extra vigilant
Beor (pronounced bee-yo) (n): attractive woman
Berco (a): as in mad, or absolutely rotten drunk
Bevvies (n): alcoholic drinks
Beyant (n): beyond or over there
Bibe (n): a girl/woman and means she's a right old cow - from the Waterford area
Bifter (n): joint, as in "roll a bifter"
A bigger bollox never put his arm through a coat (phr): Self- explanatory
Bills (n): pounds
Bingo wings (n): flabby underarms on a woman
Bird (n): girl generally, or girlfriend
Biro (n): ballpoint pen
Bitch-bag (n): male scrotum or bollocks
Bite the back of my bollox (phr): stop bothering me
Black (a): very crowded, busy - as in 'town was black!'
Blackers (n): blackberries
Blackguard (pron. blaggard) (n): a ne'er-do-well/ (v) to give someone a hard time: He's blaggardin' ya
Black Mariah (n): police van - Paddy wagon in the States
Black Stuff, the (n): Guinness
Blarney (n): nonsense
Blather (v): talk
Bleedin' deadly (a): brilliant
Bloody (a): strengthing adjective, used liberally
Blow (n): hash
Blue shirt type of guy (n): after a 1930's quasi-fascist group
Bob (n): a shilling in the old Pounds, shillings and pennies; even though the monetary system changed, the name stuck
Bob (n): If a girl sees a good looking man,she can say that he is a "bob" or that she would "give him a few bob", meaning she would like to have intimate relations with him
BOBFOC (n): Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch, eg. "she's a Bobfoc"
Bobble (v): to walk or to move somewhere
Bog (n): country area - where culchies come from
Bog ball (n): a derogatory name for gaelic football
Bogey (n): snot; something wrong, as in he's bogey or I got a bogey pint
Bogger/Bog warrior An Individual hailing from outside Dublin, but within Ireland
Bogs (n): public toilets
Bogtrotter (n): another word for a culchie
Bold (a): naughty
Bollacking (n): to "give out" to someone
Bollix (n): alt spelling of below
Bollocks (n): anyone you think is stupid
Bolloxed (a): very drunk
Bolloxed up (v): screwed up
Bolt (v): go fast/ run away
Bombardier (n): type of Irish bus
Boozer (n): pub
Boreen (n): narrow lane or road
Boss (n): polite generic term when you're chatting to someone
'Bout ye (phr): how are you doing? (Originated in Belfast)
Bouzzie, Bowsie (n): young good-for-nothing, who hangs around on street corners
Bowler (rhymes with Cow-ler) (n): dog/ugly person
Box (n): female genitalia
Boxin' the fox (phr): robbing an orchard
Boyo (n): a bit of a lad
Brass monkey (phr): In reference to exceptionally cold weather - "It'd freeze the balls off a brass monkey".
Brasser (n): woman of ill repute, who charges but a brass coin for her services
Brickin' it (a): nervous to the point of soiling oneself
Brilliant (a): great, best
Brown Trout (n): excrement
Brutal (a): terrible
Bucket of snots (n): a ugly person
Bucketing (v): raining very heavily
Buckled (v): drunk
Bucko (n): lad, player
Bud (n): polite generic term when you're chatting to someone
Buff (n): another word for red-necks, although mostly used by red-necks to describe other red-necks living further out in the countryside, and likely to live on a farm up a mountain somewhere OR (a) naked
Bushed (v): exhausted/knackered
Business (n): shit - as in, 'I have to do me business'
Business (n): cool - as in, 'It's the business' when asked about a new film, for example.
Buzzies (n): travellers