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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A sycophant. A person who constantly tries to ingratiate themselves to another person by perfuse compliments and 'sucking up'

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Cocky/full of ones self also telling lies/Talking sh*t

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

The term commonly used if something bad happens.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Term of admiration; something really great; cool, Often used in rural Galway

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

An expression used to describe someone the is evil or selfish to other poeple

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

To be unable to stop vomiting for an entire day, following a heavy drinking session the previous day or night.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Piss

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Moment of truth

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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...