Right complete, thorough, ‘he’s a right gentleman’
Rightly fine, ‘I’m doing rightly, thank you’: well, ‘I know it rightly’
Rigmarole a convoluted, unbelievable story
Rise rib, take a hand out of, raise his temper, ‘don’t rise him!’
Rogue v. cheat, ‘he’d rogue ye if he had the chance’
Roughness plenty
Rub n. praise or disparage, ‘he’d give ye a wee rub’
‘rub of the relic’, euphemism for sexual relations
Ructions a hullabaloo, a row, ‘he raised ructions over it’
Rue regret, repent, ‘she rued the day’
Rug to pull
Rummel to shake
Run leak, ‘the water has all run out of the pot’
Rung step of chair or ladder
Runner a person who is always in someone else’s house, ‘ceilier’
Runs goes, of inanimate object, ‘the road runs till Armagh’
Runt small, the reject
Rust to take fright, to refuse, ‘the horse rusted on me’