Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also your manno, your woman) an unnamed, although quite poss. specified, individual.

1939		‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 120: So be damned but your man gets his rag out and calls the sergeant a bloody English spy.
c.1940–5		‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 73: Your man was puttin up a beaver!
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 163: When your man was laughing at what I’d said.
1965		L. Dunne Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 88: I looked at your man again.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 53: If it all depends on yer man getting in next Wednesday, wouldn’t you be better saving your breath till then?
1987		(con. 1920s) L. Redmond Emerald Square 95: Through the small opening in the hedge the pair of us shot. Your man took a little longer.
1994		F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 204: Yis a bit loud and your man can’t sing but yis are good crack.
2000		F. Mac Anna Cartoon City 224: Your woman in the black mini skirt is giving me the eye bigtime.
2001		C. McPherson Port Authority 1: And your man was in the back room with Davy jamming.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 19: ‘Say nothing about yer manno. We’ll have him scooped up and out in no time’.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 221: ‘[H]im and yer man got in a load of stuff.

2. a specific thing, a good thing.

1939		‘Flann O’Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds (1960) 109: In time of trouble and lousy strife / You have still got a darlint plan, / You still can turn to a brighter life – / A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN!
1948		P. Kavanagh Tarry Flynn (1965) 46: ‘The potash is your man,’ said Eusebius.
1994		(con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 66: Now lads, the crawl is yer only man. From Guiney’s to the Half Way House.

3. the devil.

1982

E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 30: He was afraid that our candles, the second-hand ones, had no effect on yer man, Old Nick himself.