Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Describes a bad smell

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

Someone from the country

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

slang name for penis. (circa mid 1980s)

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

To finger a girl in the vagina at a repeatative basis.

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

Colloquial name for Arden View, arguably the roughest estate in Tullamore.

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

An ugly fat wan

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

Slang term for heroin in Dublin

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

What are you talking about

Details: 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?".