Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Stupid

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

Someone from Belfast

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

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

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

Worthless.

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

An egregious bollix

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

Happy out

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

How are you?

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

Term used by Dublin emmigrants who wished to support a better team

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

In Belfast, if you enter a fast food takeaway and ask for a fish supper, the server may well ask "what's ur cawn" in a broad Belfast accent. To which you might reply "fanta". Over the years it has become commonplace to use this phrase as a greeting. So, instead of "what about ye?", you may say "what's ur cawn?".