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

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Cannot

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

popular in the so-called "Triangle" area (that's Ballymoney, Coleraine, Portrush). used instead of "mate" e.g. "'bout ye sham" meaning "how are you mate?" Often claimed as an Ulster-Scots term. Ulster Scots is a "language" that has been spoken in Ireland for almost 10 whole years now.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

A dump, as in "thon place is a dunderin inn"

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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".

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Describes a person that is carring excess weight.(Round bale of silage that the wrapping is torn causing the bale to scatter)

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Used to describe a person that dressed untidy wearing badly fitted or worn clothes

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

French.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

In the sense, to do well or succeed. Often said as a rhetorical question and in a sarcastic sense.

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

To say that someone "can't drink fog" is to say they're a lightweight at drinking. It's history comes from many a Kerry man who has emerged from a pub after many pints, is suddenly hit by the air and immediately feels more drunk