Irish Slang

County

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

Very good (same meaning as 'deadly')

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

Saying for doin stupid things

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

Do something while you get the chance as you might not get another chance as good

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

Any male person whos name you cant remember or dont know.

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

Messed up

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

A big fat heavy woman.

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...