Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Request permission to see something

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

a feckin eejit. Can also mean wandering around aimlessly.

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

Hot chick

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

a poorly cleaned backside

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

Trouble

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

Punch

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...