Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Penis

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

cant talk to yiou now i'm eating

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: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Someone who never passes the ball in a football match

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

Usually given as a worse alternative to someones bad news when their bad news isn't really of that importance.

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

To be idiotic

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

Wishing someone luck with their new purchase.

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

yet another term meaning eejit but describing a person of not much use. e.g. "that useless sooskin couldn't pour shit from a shoe if the instructions were on the heel"