Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Effort of doing something or disbelief in a situation. Pronounced: whale oil been f*cked

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

Aware of ,understand

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

Goodbye

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

Having bad luck, not being in the best of health. Also can be used in reference to sex.

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

Bad Luck

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

Notion

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

Gone off the target completely

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

That's terrible, awful, catastrophic

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

Usually said after saying something smart or intelligent. A longer version of the sentence is 'Up here for thinking, down there for dancing, out there for shaking and down here for making' Usually one would point to their head then feet for the shortened sentence. If lengthened one should then shake their hands and then point to their mid section while saying the last two things.