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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A casual way of saying goodbye (my father is the only person I know that says this)

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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...

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

One who is described as a "bit simple" or "not all there upstairs"

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A glutton

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

A small amount

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

To leave or to come

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

says it all really

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Looking, from the very Gawk, to look.

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Sticking it to someone/thing