Irish Slang - Funny Irish Phrases, Expressions, & Irish Spoken Language

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Something you say if someones talking absolute sh*te or if they wont let something go.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Having a very poor tolerance level. The word threshold is the part of the door frame that you step over. In times gone by it was the peice of wood that went accross the doorway to stop the straw or hay (thresh) from spilling out of the house, long before carpets were used. Hence the word 'threshold'

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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.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

to have physically failed. usually caused due to illness. to physically look ill

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A woman with a large bottom

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

1. Can be used as an exclamative term, for example, after a spillage "ballix, i spilled milk everywhere"

2. Can be used to desribe when something is not believable. Example "the grass is pink" "aye, ballix"

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

An unpopular nun

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

when your face is red/angry

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

A variation on the weed 'thistle',