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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A female (human)

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Very Drunk

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Door

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A youth

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Expression used usually when very drunk to describe a high level of commitment to a savage beor.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A peculiar person

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Used to describe someone of poor athletic,social,or intellectual capabilities.Can also be used as a comparison to someone.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Fighting/Hitting someone repeatedly.

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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...