Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

A day where you've got nearly nathing done!

Details: Parent Category: Connaught; Created: 19 August 2019

He didn't aquire the said trait from no where, i.e. he learned it at home.

Details: Parent Category: Connaught; Created: 19 August 2019

Meaning any or ever. Used in areas of Roscommon close to Leitrim and the Midlands. Pr: air.

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Hospital Consultant

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

A derogatory word for stupid people

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

Draggin or holdin on to the luas in dublin FOR THE f*ckIN BANTER!!!

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

Over there, a place

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

A woman with big teeth

e.g. "shes teeth on her.. she could eat apples though a letter box"

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...