Dublin Dictionary

Knew half of these. Wondered if these are still current (Dublinese changes all the time):- "He'd charge you for the smell off his piss" and "They'd live off the wax from your ears" (for mean stingy people) and "Cocked powdered and shaved" (probably derivation of "coiffed" referring to well-groomed individual). "Scrubbers" (working-class individuals, particularly young women) used to initiate random street violence by screaming "Yer a budgie!" - the ultimate insult - at random passing female(s) not a member of "their" gang. "Gerrouruvit" (get out of it, meaning "I can hardly believe what I'm hearing".)
 
When it became fashionable for women to wear trousers in the early sixties the boys would make remarks like "hey empty fork" to which they were told "what you have would'nt fill it.
 
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