Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Very good (contrary to the dictionary definitions of "full of or involving woe" and "lamentably bad or serious"). Also used as an adverb before adjectives (but not as "woefully") to mean "very".

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

Expression used when someone leaves a door wide open on a cold day in a draughty house.

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

Small, skinny male with a few strands of a moustache and a bad attitude

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

Your nothing and you'll never be anything

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

Caught drink driving - stems from the act of blowing into the bag in a breath test

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

The garda station

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

Needs No Explanation !

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

1. an annoying young person.e.g. " I cant sell ye fags Davy, not if you're just goin to give them to them wee skitters standin outside the off-lisence"

2. a semi solid piece of faecal excretia e.g. "I shouldn't have horsed thon curry into me last night. I've gone and caught a dose o' the skitters"