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

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

A typically Northern Irish expression also spoken as "face as long as a Lurgan spade" meaning to look miserable or long faced. One theory about the origin of this expression is that a “Lurgan spade” was an under-paid workman digging what is now the Lurgan Park lake. Another theory is that it is a translation from the Irish language lorga spád meaning the shaft/shin of a spade. Upon observation you would say...

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Slut

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Potatoes

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

A play on the word fowl/foul.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Said by by young men about women they want to sleep with!

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

To Fight/Assault

 

e.g. "He belted him round the neck!" 

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Rhyming slang for money

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

At a fast speed or to do something well.

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Fast and furious