Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

How are you getting on./ how are you

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

Describes something that is mean, inconsiderate, selfish or cruel.

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

A lad

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

Used to describe a male as good looking or to describe clothes as fashionable

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

Raise the Vol/tempo

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

To tell an animal to be quiet eg. a cow when handling them

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

pronounced - "cur-ting"

meaning - to go out with someone, or to kiss someone

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

Usually shouted at owners of rear wheel drive cars,“Does she go round?”“Does she hoop?”“Can you diff her?”“Can you do doughnuts in your car?”A doughnut or donut is a maneuver performed while driving a vehicle. Performing this maneuver entails rotating the rear or front of the vehicle around the opposite set of wheels in a continuous motion, creating (ideally) a circular skid-mark pattern of rubber on a roadway and possibly even cause the tires to emit smoke from friction.