Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Staying away from home, usually a child - e.g. "He's been on gur since Saturday"

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

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

Informal way of greeting someone.

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

Copulation, intercourse

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

Naked, i.e. stark naked, see also Jaye's Fluid.

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

Used to describe a Fifa player who passes the ball to another player on the other side of the goal and taps the ball in,fooling the keeper and pissing off the other guy.

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

Look at him run though.

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

Period,thing

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

I'm almost finished with Robert Ludlum's novel THE ICARUS AGENDA, which has two slang phrases in it that have me scratching my head (a lot). "A two toilet Irish detective" is supposed to be American Boston-Irish slang, and I guess isn't too hard to figure out. I still wanna know!