Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Something good...(beauty without the y)

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

Shnas - gloss/ shine Term used to descibe the tidyin up/polishing of something

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

A large amount of something

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

Apply pressure to the....

Details: 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...