Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

A native of Cavan - an engaging yet economically circumspect people reputed to be skilled in the means of peeling an orange without displaying it to potentially interested third parties.

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

game of football

e.g. "you up for a game o footy?"

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

Diarrhoea

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

A greeting

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

Easter collection of eggs

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

In the sense, to do well or succeed. Often said as a rhetorical question and in a sarcastic sense.

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

A very very very attractive woman. she'd even arouse a deceased snowman

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

Someone who is not very academically able

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

Limerick term for Tipperary. Based on the traditional Tipperary practice of bringing the hang sangwiches with them along with a flask of cabbage water or tae to the GAA matches for fear of having to actually pay for something. In reality this practice is shared by certain residents of all counties.