My Wactionary (Wacky Dictionary): Jonny Blair’s Dictionary

If you have read any of my books, you will find that they have a “Wactionary” at the back of them. These are words that not everyone reading will understand. This is either because they are Northern Irish slang, my mates slang or just words I invented down the years. I needed to invent words where there wasn’t one. The more I write, the more I have realised how flawed and incomplete the English language is. Indeed, it is not even my first language. English is officially my third language. My first language is Ulster Scots and my second language is Irish Gaelic. Sadly the schooling system where I grew up in Northern Ireland push English as the main language and as a result, most of us in Northern Ireland speak our third native language fluently without knowing our first and second truly Irish native languages.

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Here is my current Wactionary, up to the 5th November 2023.

Wactionary (Wacky Dictionary)
Rough translation guide from Northern Irish and Jonny Blairish intill English:

acronymically – in the form of an acronym whereby the first letters of each word in the sequence are placed together one after the other to form a new word
afforequoted – quoted before
aftermathically – in the aftermath and worked out mathematically
Alanis Mozzarella – Alanis Morrisette
alightings – getting off public transport a plural amount of times
amalgamshate – to bring things together but in the end it is totally shite
anagramically – in the form of an anagram whereby the letters can be rearranged to spell another word
aneath – a form of reflectively being underneath
apparence – noun form of apparent
arrivation – the act of arriving in that place
authoric – of an author
BB – Boys’ Brigade
bake – face
bake on ye / look at the state of yer man / see yer bake – you do not look happy
ballix – bollocks, testicles
bate – beaten, lost
beehived – placed in a beehive (so till spake)
beg – bag
belshynic – of Belshina Belarus
betweenic – of in-between
blastful – full of blast
blowmouth – an action of a lady taking some male sperm intill her gob
bogs / bogside / bogside residents – toilets, loos, WCs, toalety, pissers, lavatories
boobage – a brace of boobs
Bournemouthian – a person from Bournemouth
Bournemouthic – typical of Bournemouth
bovver-rated – badly over-rated
bodyness – related to the human body
brace – two, 2
braceically – twice
brave – really good
breasticles – a word mixing testicles and breasts, but in a cute way to mention only female breasts
breath thefter – something that takes your breath away
buck eejit – cultured idiot
buckie – tonic wine (95% of the time it’s the brand ‘Buckfast’)
buspacking – backpacking on a bus
busticated – broken
byline – the entire line on a football pitch between the two corner flags, except for the goal part which is called the goal line
canalic – of canals
carrotic – of Netherlands 1990 football shirt orange
carryout – takeaway alcohol
caser – leather football
charmigator – something that is very charming
chimney corner – around the corner in the near future
cheapercrack – better value
chapteric, chapterical – of a chapter
chaptertitlic – to call the chapter’s title that
countrywise – in terms of countries
Covi g – Covent Garden in London
craic – banter so it is
crackation – of cracking
crappuccino – a very bad quality cappuccino
Cremola Foam – a popular fizzy drink in Northern Ireland during the 1980s
Cullybackey – back
dandered, a dander, to dander – walked, a walk, to walk at a normal Northern Irish pace
datily – in order of date
deathable – to be able and leading or willing to represent death
deathhole – a terrible place, where a feeling of death is present
Dennis – wise, clever
Desmond / Dessie – a 2-2 draw in football (“Desmond Tutu”)
dieic – appearing like they are dying or about to die
docken leaf – rumex obtusifolius, a leaf that helps after a nettle sting
down south – Republic of Ireland (even the northern parts of it like Donegal!)
duptuple – a double of something, like brace, dual, twice etc.
earthful – around planet earth
eejit – idiot
eejitiotic – like an idiot
electionic – resembling an election
enignymity – not knowing what might happen, mystery, enigma
ensuic – what ensued, what came next
fallation – the act of falling
farmlife – life on a farm (I actually couldn’t believe this isn’t a recognised word!)
feg – cigarette
fillim – movie
fleg – flag
fly nets – no specified goalkeeper in nets. Anyone can do nets.
footballic – of football
forwardlash – exact opposite of backlash
fourology – a four part series
freelancic – of freelancing, doing it for yourself
frightclub – a nightclub that frightens you
frostbit – bitten by frost, freezing, Baltic, very cold
gat shat – got shot, was fired at using a gun
GAWA – Green and White Army, Northern Ireland football fans
geg – funny person, ridiculously funny
gighopper – a person who goes to lots of gigs/concerts
glew – glow (in my past tense – instead of “glowed”)
goryness – feeling of ugly, gory, grotesque
grass, grass up – to tell the authorities about something potentially illegal
gunless – without a gun
handal – using the hand
handal ability – ability of using the hand
hereonin – from now on
here’s me till im – after that, I said to this man
holdancy – the situation of holding something
hourfall – at that exact moment where that significant thing happens
impulsivic – stronger adjective than impulsive
intill – into
inventigate – the act of investigating an invention on inventing an investigation
jamember? – do you remember?
Jurassic Park – it’s a fillim about dinosaurs
keeperity – the situation of keeping / maintaining something
keepie uppies / keepy uppys – juggling a football with your feet and knees etc., literally “keeping it up” off the ground
leavepacking – to go backpacking when clearly doing it due to leaving somewhere
leet – litre (example – “gimme a swig of yer two leet”)
Lesi’s Q – Leicester Square in London
look at the bake on yer man – look at his face
lovein – fake love that I cringe at
lunatical – crazy
madliness – lunatical
marathonic – an adjective used to describe a person who loves marathons
McCrums – penalty kicks
minoritise – to prioritise the minority
moonie – the act of showing your ass/bum/rear end
mundanity – the act of being mundane, bland, boring
musicly – musically
nat – not
nets – goals, goalkeeper, keeper
nightness – the feeling that it is at night
NISC – Northern Ireland Supporters Club
Norn Iron – Northern Ireland
nounal – adjective form of noun
nuder – more nude, less amount of clothes
off the wheaten craic – a place where there are no other tourists and no airport (the real “off the beaten track”)
oopsilon – whoops in an embarrassing way
ourselfs – ourselves (an acceptable poetic plural form)
pantal – in the body region of yer pants
peelers – policemen and policewomen, members of the police force
peeler station – police station
pelanty – penalty, McCrum
penisular – of the penis (willy)
photy, photies – photo, photos
pintage – the act or process of drinking pints
pinting – going for pints, often at that exact time
pociąg – an alternative word for train (taken from Polish)
Portadownczyk – a man from Portadown in Northern Ireland
premath – opposite of aftermath (beforehand)
quare – a lot of, hugely, magically
quare geg – a right laugh/something funny
Quoile – a river in Northern Ireland
quitpacked – gave up, quit backpacking
quittion – the process of quitting
radaboutye – how are you?
randomic – alternative adjective form of random
regression – nounal form of regret.
repitivity – alternative adjective form of repetition
ringathon – a ringing session that doesn’t have to be 26 rings
saff – south (in a broad London accent)
saviourity – noun of being a saviour
scrake of dawn – first thing in the morning, at dawn, at sunrise
scory – a mixture of story and score
scroat – a person acting the lig, being annoying or being a pest
screamager – it’s a song by Therapy?
seafrontal – by the seafront
see him? – look at that guy
shap – shop
shar – shower
shiner – a black eye/face, a damaged face; a shiny Panini football sticker
showall – showing all, revelation, revealing all
singleton and singledom – a person alone, the act of being alone
SOENISC – South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club
so it is – no meaning, can be replaced with a blank space, but that would be boring
solitudinal – the only one of that thing
spake – speak, dialect, style
(to) squeal – to tell the authorities about something potentially illegal
stolica – capital city (borrowed from Polish)
swiftission – to do something swiftly as a noun
swapsies – doubles of Panini football stickers which you swap
szalenstwo – the act of being crazy (original from Polish)
Tannoy – public address system
tap – top
tentic – giving the feeling of being in or witnessing a tent, or in erotic terms, feeling the willy go up like a tent being erected
textbookic – of the finest textbook quality as an example within that field
textbookikly – done by the textbook, the best way that it should have been done
that there – meaningless Northern Irish garbage
themmuns – those people
theseuns – these ones
thingy – that person, you know that person right?
thon – that wee one
till – to
timeclock – clock of your time
townic – of a town
turnation – the act of turning as a noun
Ulsterczyk – Ulsterman, a man from Ulster, often used when talking about myself (Jonny Blair)
Ulsteric – adjective describing ‘of Ulster’
Ulsterka – Ulsterwoman, a woman from Ulster
unchaptertitled – that was not the title of the chapter I gave
unhyperbolic – opposite of hyperbolic, not exaggerated
unin – not included in, not in
unstrong – not strong
unyearable – when the year is not mentioned either because the year is not known, it is not possible to mention the year or the author doesn’t want to mention the year
UTCIAD – Up the Cherries, in all departments! (AFC Bournemouth fan chant)
Wacaday, wacadaisical – (copyright of Timmy Mallet) crazy, lunatical
wactionary – wacky dictionary, Jonny Blair’s dictionary
wateric – of water
wallfall – the falling of a wall (e.g. Berlin Wall)
wee – term of endearment, often signifying small
whackdrinking, whackdrinker – to go drinking in a crazy way, a crazy drinker
whackpacking, whackpacker – to go backpacking in a crazy way, a crazy backpacker
whackwhopping – a more crazy version of whopping
whatcha – what are ya?
whoppaday – crazy low/high amount
wildernistic – of wilderness
wintric – giving a feeling that it is winter
worldic – global
wove – waved
ya, ye – you
yearically – by year, including that year, within that year, you can also use this word the same way as daily, weekly, monthly, annually
yer Da woulda stuck thatun away – your father would have scored a goal
yer gegging me – you are joking about with me
yer man – that male person
yer woman – that female person
yoghurty – creamy like a yoghurt
yous, youse, yousens – you people
zielonic – green

If there are any other unknown words or phrases that are used in this book, you can email the author Jonny Blair for clarification, as he often uses his own phrases and confuses others with his peculiar use of language.