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

Details

Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

To be idiotic

Details

Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Another way of saying "It is the"

Details

Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Lad. said to both sexes. Commonly used at the end of a statement, usually refering to the person you are talking to.

Details

Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Outside

Details

Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A way of commenting on how someone looks, bit like 'the state of ya

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...

Details

Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Damged or broken

Details

Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Hello there, by any chance could I trouble you for a cigarette?

Details

Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Another word for hair