Ballymena "lingo"

Afeard - scared
Ballex - disagree with someone
Baltic - cold
Banjaxed - no longer fit for purpose
Bate - to hit or to win
Beg - wafer thin plastic vessel; good for carrying shopping
Binlid – a person who displays all the IQ of the cover on a refuse receptacle.
Boke - Regurgitate violently.
Boggen - mucked up to the oxters
Buck eejit - idiot
Brave - large
Brew - weekly benefit
Chat/Chaterina - A thingimmybob. Superb term which can be used in almost every situation.
Chaterina (the full dictionary version) is rarely used now but 'chat' remains commonplace. Example: "Reach me thon chat." The incredible thing is most people in Ballymena will be aware, in the context of the situation, exactly what item you require.
Cane - An untidy residence or a place of ill repute.
Chicken - child slang for "afeard"
Clabbered - To be covered in dirt - see 'Bogging'
Cove - A person. Not a geographical feature of the coastline.
Crater – This has nothing to do with the moon and is, in fact, a widely used term of sympathy.
Example: "Sure it's a pity of that crater."
Creche - not a nursery, but when 2 cars collide
Dab - A unit of currency.
Dander - a walk
Doner - female version of a cove
Dour - a door
Drawers - underwear
Dunt – To apply force. Example: "Hit thon crater a dunt and waken him up."
Eejit - means "Idiot"
Fadge - potato bread
Facing - to kiss someone
Footerin - to tinker or to loiter
Gammy - rubbish, useless
Ganch - one who is incapable of holding their tongue. More importantly, an indication that any contribution they may make to a conversation is totally without merit.
Gipe - Another word for an idiot
Givuz - give me
Gorb - A greedy person.
Gurn - How could we forget it? To complain (adult); to cry (child).
Gutties - new nikes from oxfam
Happy Days - that's good
Heel - not to be confused with the back of your foot, means end of a loaf
Heerzme - "And then I said..."
Houl On - please wait
Howl - To take a firm grip.
Job - activity usually carried out under the cover of night
Joken - joking
Lifted - arrested
Meat Wagon - RUC Landrovers
Messages - weekly shopping
Mucker - a friend or mate
Muller - Mother or "Ma"
McCooey - native of belfast
Nek it - drink that drink in one
Norman - bullying term for someone with no friends
Offees - alchohol retailer
Oxters - armpits
Paghle - pron.packle. A couch potato. One becomes a paghle through prughin'.
Passion - heavy rain in Ballymena
Peeler - a police officer
Prugh - a mix of crisps, sweets or chocolate, usually eaten on the sofa in front of the TV
Pruta's - spuds
Quare - big, massive
Rare - not to be confused with "scarce", means crap as in 'feel rare'
Reely - A catch-all phrase for an action or person of doubtful sense. Example: "See yer man - he's reely so he is. Sure his head's a marley." (From Mickey Marley's famed roundabout).
Samitch - mispronunciation of "Sandwhich"
Sammy - native of Belfast - see McCooey
Scallions - fancy leeks
Scunnered - A state of depression. Important note:-Those who have the misfortune to hail from the less favoured parts of Northern Ireland (i.e. not Ballymena and district) have the tendency to pronounce this words as 'scundered'. This is totally unacceptable and will result in failure of the oral module of this course.
Shap - shop
Shar - a shower
Skelly - To take a quick glance at something.
Shem - Basically anyone. Can be dropped into conversation at any point without fear.
Sicken' Ye - would annoy you
Skinned Ye! - Haha my good friend, I do believe I won that
Slabber - someone who makes bad comments about you behind your back
Snotter - An unmentionable substance which emanates from the nose during times of cold and flu.
Spoofen - lying
Spoon - someone with a low IQ
Stroke - To walk purposefully. Or, more commonly nowadays, to cheat.
Thon - commonly used pronoun used as a substitute for 'that'. 'That's a fair size of a head on thon crater'.
Tome - Excellent, wonderful. If one played a magnificent shot in snooker, for instance, it could be justifiably be described as 'Tome, Shem.' Important note - these two words MUST be used in conjunction.
Truth - A lie.
Wah Wah - native of belfast - see McCooey
wee'un - an alternative word for small child. 'I'm babysitting the wee'uns'
Wheek(er) - A unit of pressure. Example: "Thon Shem is tome at boxing. He hut thon cove a wheek dig." Trans. "That fellow is a prime exponent of the noble art. He struck that other chap a blow of considerable force."
Wheesht - as in 'houl your wheesht' aka, shut up.
Wick - not exactly brilliant
Wiredintillit -"Got wiredintillit earlee-er"
Yeegittin? - Are you being served?
Yoke - A mode of transport , normally a car
Yousens - When addressing more than one person