Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

To get the shift

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

A fat f*ck.

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

A play on the word fowl/foul.

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

Beleive it

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

He who is not to be trusted. The forces of evil you were warned against at a young age

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

A foolish person (eejit)

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

Not nice or unattractive

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

Fidgeting, searching

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?".