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

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To be covered in dirt

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Toite can mean anything you want. Good, bad, pretty, ugly, cool, stupid.

e.g. 1: "I won the lottery there" "Toite one!"

e.g. 2: "My relative just died" "That's toite."

Also used by Goldmember "Toite like a macho man"

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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: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

A fat f*ck.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A promiscuous woman

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

someone who has no intention in buying they just like looking and wasting your time

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Mentally unstable person, often used as a compliment to describe somebody who’s up for a laugh.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Bad, needing attention - e.g. "The place is in a desperate state"

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Against it or hold something in palce