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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

This slang term is used as an offensive comment to someone who is not sexually appealing.

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Messy/dodgy/distracted

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Disrespectful

 

e.g. "can you believe he asked me to go after what he done? the cheeck of it!" 

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Usually means 'of course ya did'

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

You will Yeah !!

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Person

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A phrase you use as you head butt someone

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

In Belfast, if you enter a fast food takeaway and ask for a fish supper, the server may well ask "what's ur cawn" in a broad Belfast accent.  To which you might reply "fanta".  Over the years it has become commonplace to use this phrase as a greeting. So, instead of "what about ye?", you may say "what's ur cawn?".

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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...