Irish Slang

County

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

Not a very gernerous person

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

That man/woman.

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

When a sexually active girl is on her period, and gaggin' for it, but can't.

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

Some1 who breaks up scruffs

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

Not have a clue

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

A phrase used to support and individual.

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...