Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Extremely intoxicated

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

From the Irish 'Straois', a grin. Means giggling or laughing

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

A threat

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

To describe something good

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

An ass wipe or a bo...x. May be from sir hammer greenwood who burnt cork city. Used by the miners and the people of Castlecomer in North kilkenny to describe certain types of characteristics of a person.

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

Noticed, saw.

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

yet another term meaning eejit but describing a person of not much use. e.g. "that useless sooskin couldn't pour shit from a shoe if the instructions were on the heel"