Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen #2)

Glossary

the Angelus: Every evening at six in Ireland, there is a minute of silence for prayer on the television.

bluey: porno movie

bonnet: hood of the car

boot: trunk of the car

burdizzo: castration device

camogie: the female version of hurling.

Child of Prague: a religious statue farmers place out in a field to encourage good weather (an old Irish superstition)

chipper: a restaurant that sells fast food

cooker: oven/stove/hob

corker: beautiful woman

cracking on: hooking up

craic: fun

The craic was ninety: having a lot of fun and banter

culchie: person from the countryside or a county outside of Dublin. Usually used as a friendly insult.

daft: silly

daft as a brush: very silly

Dub: a person from Dublin

eejit: fool/idiot

Fair City: popular Irish television soap

fanny: vagina

feis: a traditional Gaelic arts and culture festival/event

fortnight: two weeks

frigit: someone who has never been kissed

GAA: Gaelic Athletic Association

Garda: policeman (plural: Gardaí)

Gardaí Síochána: Irish police force

gas: funny

get your hole: have sex

gobshite: fool/idiot

grinds: tutoring

hatchet craic: great fun

hole: often said instead of ass/bottom

hurling: a hugely popular amateur Irish sport played with wooden hurleys and sliotars (wooden sticks and small, hard balls)

Jackeen: a person from Dublin. A term sometimes used by people from other counties in Ireland to refer to a person from Dublin.

jammy: lucky

jammiest: luckiest

jumper: sweater

junior cert: the compulsory state exam taken in third year, midway through the six-year cycle of secondary school

langer: idiot

langers: group of idiots and/or to be extremely drunk

leaving cert: the compulsory state exam taken in the final year of secondary school

lifted: arrested

messages: groceries

mickey/willy: penis

mope: idiot

on the hop: skipping school

on the lash: going out drinking

on the piss: going out drinking

poitín: Irish version of moonshine/illegal, home-brewed alcohol

pound shop: dollar store

primary school: elementary school, junior infants to sixth class

playschool: preschool/nursery

junior infants: equivalent to kindergarten

senior infants: equivalent to second year of kindergarten

first class: equivalent to first grade

second class: equivalent to second grade

third class: equivalent to third grade

fourth class: equivalent to fourth grade

fifth class: equivalent to fifth grade

sixth class: equivalent to sixth grade

Rebel County: nickname for County Cork

ridey: a good-looking person

Rolos: popular brand of chocolate candy

rosary, removal, burial: the three days of a Catholic funeral in Ireland

runners: trainers/sneakers

Sacred Heart: the name of Shannon, Joey, Darren, Claire, Caoimhe, Lizzie, Tadhg, Ollie, Podge, and Alec’s mixed primary school

sap: sad/pathetic

Scoil Eoin: the name of Johnny, Gibsie, Feely, Hughie, and Kevin’s all-boys primary school

scoring: kissing

secondary school: high school, first year to sixth year

first year: equivalent to seventh grade

second year: equivalent to eighth grade

third year: equivalent to ninth grade

fourth year: transition year, equivalent to tenth grade

fifth year: equivalent to eleventh grade

sixth year: equivalent to twelfth grade

shades: police

shifting: kissing.

shifting jacket: lucky piece of clothing, usually a jacket, worn when trying to pick up a girl

slab of beer: box of 24 bottles of beer

solicitor: lawyer

spanner: idiot

spuds: potatoes

St. Bernadette’s: the name of Aoife, Casey, and Katie’s all-girls primary school

St. Stephen’s Day: Boxing Day/ December 26th

strop: mood-swing/pouting/sulking

swot: nerd/academically gifted

tog off: change into or out of training clothes

Wellies: rubber boots worn in the rain

wheelie bin: trash can

yolk: nickname for an illegal drug