Irish Slang - Funny Irish Phrases, Expressions, & Irish Spoken Language

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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?".

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Said in response to someone saying thanks. Comes from a Joke where David Hasslehoff asks a Clerk to change his name to the Hoff... when the Clerk said Sure, No Hassle. Now instead of saying "No Hassle" people just say Hoff.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

A way of a sales assistant asking if you are being served

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

A loud unintelligible utterance to cause disruption. -See "Ga!"

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

another name for a woman

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

The female genitalia

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Colloquial name for Arden View, arguably the roughest estate in Tullamore.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Vagina

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

 a way of describing someone in a good way "he/shes sound"