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

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Describes an object that is traveling at high speed.

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To tell someone that they are talking sh*te, or they're over exaggerating.

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Would often be used in conversation to indicate a sharp drop in air temp.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

This phrase is used when referring to a wealthy individual usually far more wealthy than his neighbours in the Parish. He his said to have more land than the Parish Priest, therefore making him wealthy indeed.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Rural people, usually used disparagingly by city people - e.g. "The culchies were all over the place"

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Used sarcastically to mean a woman is cheap &trashy

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

a poorly cleaned backside

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A person with bucked or missing teeth.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

1) To be ugly or stupid. 2) Dosed with pains or illness. Lit: Beaten with it (possibly the ugly stick).