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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A Boy with a huge Head, too big for his body.

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

The Foundary was a factory in Waterford where everyone's grandfather used to work. It was located down by the kay river. They used to pronounce it in this way due to the peculiar gutteral r sound of the old Waterford accent.

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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...

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Shut up dont talk

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Someone who has large or protruding teeth

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Female version of a spide. Teenage variety is frequently pregnant, with large hoop earrings and a top of the range pram.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Same as stall or hold your horses i.e. wait or hold up.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Meaning congrats or well done

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Used to describe someone that is very temperamental or stubborn.