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

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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

Used to reason, "lets be reasonable here". Said when someone is being unreasonable

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Used back in the mid/late nineties to describe an average looking person with whom one would consider sleeping if there was no attractive alternative.

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

A question,meaning "Are you trying to instigate a fight,as I will have no problem accepting"

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Vagina

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

A term used to describe when two things bond together very well

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

A person who shaggs sheep

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Something that has gone from bad to worse