Irish Slang

County

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

Drunk

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

To describe someone odd

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

This phrase is used when referring to a wealthy individual usually far more wealthy than his neighbours in the Parish. He his said to have more land than the Parish Priest, therefore making him wealthy indeed.

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

When you put a small amount of diesel into a traRctor

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

How are things?

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

Broken

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

Drunk

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

To be extremely drunk or severely intoxicated,while enjoying a serious buzz.

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

Someone doing something that they shouldn't be doing e.g. a ref giving a bad decision at a game, a child playing with a box of matches, a garda pulling up someone for pissing in a dark alley etc.