Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

im away to bed

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

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

Term used when someone falls into water

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

Expression used instead of saying,"Now".

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

A lad with a arrogant or pompous walk

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

A marlie is a marble - meaning "don't be stupid"

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...