Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Trip (football)

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

How are you?

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

Description of someone in a really bad mood.

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

Sarcastic, means the opposite of what it says.

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

I'm famished, hungry

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

Excellent.

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

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair Usually used to describe a "Computer Problem" when there isn't one. Its just that the user is not Computer Literate.

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

Discription of desperate person in cub / disco

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?".