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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

That girl is ugly

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

To engage is sexual intercourse

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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...

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

A disruptive person

e.g. "sit down and quit bein a Yahoo" / "pack of Yahoo's them!"

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

A couple who are from two different counties

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

meaning "ok", "see you later" or even"yes sir, right away sir. Leave it to me"

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

It has a rotting taste

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Indecisive, dithering.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

drunk