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Barry White | Shite | Scatalogical and probably racist. |
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Boat-race | Face | "Lovely body. Pity about the boat-race." |
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Brenda Fricker | Anus | (Rhymes with Gicker.) Brenda Fricker is a Dubliner and a movie actor. |
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Cobbler's | Balls (rubbish, nonsense) | From "cobbler's awls." Origin obscure. From Cockney. Normally used in the phrase "a load of cobblers." |
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Cream-cracker | Knacker | "Knacker" is a racist term referring to an "Irish Traveller," although the use of the term "race" is controversial. |
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Cream-crackered | Knackered | (Exhausted.) Knackering is the process of rendering horse carcasses. |
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Mae West | Best | Used only in the negative: "It's not the Mae West." |
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Nat King Cole | Hole (vagina) | "Getting one's hole" (for a man) means "getting laid." |
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Sallynoggin | Head | "Sallynoggin" is an area of Dublin. The word sounds like rhyming slang, but is instead a straight co-opting of the geographical term. |
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Septic tank | Yank (n.) | (American) |
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Swiss | Anus | A shortening of "swiss roll," a common snack food. |
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[On me] Tod | On my own, solo | Tod Sloan was an American horse jockey. This term entered Hiberno-English from Cockney via Dublin, as did much of Irish rhyming slang. |
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Tea-leaf | Thief | |