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

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Go away

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

If someone is sick or not in good form, they're in a 'bad way'

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Having a very poor tolerance level. The word threshold is the part of the door frame that you step over. In times gone by it was the peice of wood that went accross the doorway to stop the straw or hay (thresh) from spilling out of the house, long before carpets were used. Hence the word 'threshold'

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Scratched by fingernails - e.g. "Her face was all scrawbed"

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

talks alot, talks to much

 

e.g. - "that fella there could chat the hind leg of a dog!"

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

I have taken some alcohol/I am drunk

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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

• funny
• slang

Expressing disbelief or shock, another way of saying are you serious or joking.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Something you say if someones talking absolute sh*te or if they wont let something go.