Irish Slang

County

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

Get angry

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

Something horrible

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

To wind somebody up. to joke with.

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

To lie to a teacher, ie, telling everyone you're some tool.

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

Said when someone sees someone else with something and wants it for themselves

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

Somebody that might be lacking in mental cohesion.

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

Obviously

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

Do you know what I mean?

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...