Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Being stooped or hump-backed, from the Irish cruit.

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

Eatting

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

Ugly

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

Borrowing or getting a lend of something all the time

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

Skipping school

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

A gay person

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...