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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

How are you my good friend, any news?

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Big,fat

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Hard to translate, roughly meaning fun - e.g. "We had great craic that night"

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

A meadow with high, wilted grass is said to be full of 'thrawneens', from the Irish word for a blade of dry grass, tráithnín.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

ahead of ,against. e.g. "where's the kitchen brush?" "it's fernenst the door"

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Cheap sweets

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Not the smartest person around

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To throw a punch

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

To express delight that something went awfully wrong for someone (they might have had it coming to them or deserved it in someway, or you might dislike them). For example if an insult they used backfired.