Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Promoting Jewellery For Money

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

A person from the country who is both scary and unintelligible

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

Derogatory/Affectionate name for one who is of tall, lean, often clumsy stature i.e. one who wobbles.

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

How is things going?

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

An ugly looking female

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

In Belfast, if you enter a fast food takeaway and ask for a fish supper, the server may well ask "what's ur cawn" in a broad Belfast accent. To which you might reply "fanta". Over the years it has become commonplace to use this phrase as a greeting. So, instead of "what about ye?", you may say "what's ur cawn?".