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

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Term of endearment

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Hello, How Are You

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Too finger hard

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Derry term.

(noun) a tight-fisted person
eg. what a stoke! she wouldn't spend christmas

(verb) to steal
eg. someone stoked my bike

(adjective) cheap, tacky, worn out (similar to "gypy")
eg. that tracksuit's a bit stokey lookin

 

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

In Belfast, if you enter a fast food takeaway and ask for a fish supper, the server may well ask "what's ur cawn" in a broad Belfast accent.  To which you might reply "fanta".  Over the years it has become commonplace to use this phrase as a greeting. So, instead of "what about ye?", you may say "what's ur cawn?".

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Very wet, soaked through.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Used to describe a Fifa player who passes the ball to another player on the other side of the goal and taps the ball in,fooling the keeper and pissing off the other guy.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

When you can see someones true colors,they never put on a act.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Could describe a woman that was very angry and had an angry expression on her face, or it could also describe a very ugly woman.