Irish Slang - Funny Irish Phrases, Expressions, & Irish Spoken Language

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

The act of vomiting. Moby was derived from moby dick with rhymes with sick.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

I will gladly pay you Tuesday if you will contribute to the cost of my next alcoholic beverage [usually all of the cost of it, and then they sit down next to you, happy days!]

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Desent

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Having sex with her

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Drunk

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Pronounced T-aye-gers, Liie-onz and Al-a-phints

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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...

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Said in response to someone saying thanks. Comes from a Joke where David Hasslehoff asks a Clerk to change his name to the Hoff... when the Clerk said Sure, No Hassle. Now instead of saying "No Hassle" people just say Hoff.

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To hurry on!