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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Just doing it.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

To get in trouble

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Sick

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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

To go in the direction of somewhere

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Extremely disgusting, stinking.

 -"Thon bird's bealin', mate"

-"Your breath's bealin', mate"

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A feckin egit

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

The famous cider brewed in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary known as Bulmers in Ireland (Magners abroad).

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

To be highly intoxicated