Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

Details: Parent Category: Munster; Created: 19 August 2019

Sayin you'll do something (sarcastically)

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

Said when someone sees someone else with something and wants it for themselves

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

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Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

Extremely Drunk

e.g. " Jimmy there was Rote Of lastnight!"

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

See 'Ringin'

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

she is very thin

Details: Parent Category: Connaught; Created: 19 August 2019

Noise or sound, 'bit o' life'.

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

A typically Northern Irish expression also spoken as "face as long as a Lurgan spade" meaning to look miserable or long faced. One theory about the origin of this expression is that a “Lurgan spade” was an under-paid workman digging what is now the Lurgan Park lake. Another theory is that it is a translation from the Irish language lorga spád meaning the shaft/shin of a spade. Upon observation you would say...