Irish Slang

Ulster

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Tip

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

When one passes out from excessive drinking and sleeps in his/her clothes

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Something that is very hard to find

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Aye

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

It means that it is the same thing either way

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Sex!

Details: 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...