Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

An idiot.

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

Faeces (childish)

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

Term to describe a girl who is, cheap white meat.

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

A charactaristic way of walking, sometimes implying insult but not necessarily. A certain grace of movement displayed by most Leitrim people.

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

Ok, ok ok....its not Irish....but we Love to say it!!!

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

A way of saying the person in question was acting in a distasteful way.

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

A term used to describe being annoyed

Details: 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'