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)

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hardshaw

Wrestling with cows would lead to a person being known as a Hardshaw.

Linda is a hardshaw she got her nose pierced

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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."