Irish Slang

County

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

To get a bad fright

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

Porridge or oatmeal

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

Easter collection of eggs

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

A variation on the weed 'thistle',

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

Any of

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

Looking, from the very Gawk, to look.

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...