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hardshaw 

This is usually used in a derogatory sense actually, Although hardshaw used to mean you were tough or fearless etc etc, these days its used to challenge old fashioned ideals of rugged alpha manliness.
awwwwww locko not payin onta the bus ye fukin hardshaw ye (heckling in the bacground)
hardshaw by chomskola August 7, 2006
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Wrestling with cows would lead to a person being known as a Hardshaw.
Linda is a hardshaw she got her nose pierced
hardshaw by t1dylad January 16, 2004
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Hardshaw 

Origin Ireland, (Dublin), derogatory, mocking.
The word hardshaw is one used to describe a person who is trying too hard to be tough usually through overly aggressive behaviour (nothing to do with anti alpha maleness but rather the misrepresentation of toughness). Used to describe one who is perhaps over compensating with verbiage and bravado for an underlying lack of true strength. A person who is trying to prove their toughness by flaunting signals of grit.
While witnessing a skinny man walking down the road wearing a wife beater, a knuckle duster and walking two pit bull terriers, a man turns to his friend and comments:
"Would ye look at the state of that hardshaw, stiff breeze would probably knock him over."
Hardshaw by Conndar March 11, 2021
A big simp typically simps on any woman regardless of their age. Also known as a cute dummkopf who thinks that they have a big d.
“Look he's asking for Miss Quintana's number
“Yeah.. Totally a harshaw”
Harshaw by tsukibyubb May 27, 2023
Compleete faggot who likes dildos in the bum
enjoys picking flowers and sending them to guys
basically a nother word for the biggers flaming homo!!
OMG DUDE he is totaly a Harshaw
Harshaw by Secreatlicker April 9, 2011
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026