Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

senior infants' school

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

Boisterous type or fool.

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

Mocking someone with big ears

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

He or she is a right scallywag, meaning getting up to mischieve

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

Used to start off a sentence;typically a rebuttal or to inform.

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

Verbal abbreviation of "What is up with you there"

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

A girl, woman / Girls , women

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

Someone who lies

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...