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

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

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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: 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.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

The Cloonchas is the area of Cloonbonnive and Gortaganny in West Roscommon where most townlands begin with 'Cloon', eg. Cloonfower, Clooncan. From the Irish for meadows, 'Cluainte'.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Extreme reactions, craze: (great excitement/enjoyment or panic/shock/anger etc.)

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Mighty, great. an expression of happiness or pleasure. NE galway, Ahascragh

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Good enough to eat

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Meaning many / a lot; probably a literal translation of Irish 'neart'

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

The comings and goings(litraly)from the wesht