Irish Slang

County

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

Having bad luck, not being in the best of health. Also can be used in reference to sex.

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

Describing someone or something that is useless or of no value

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

Your penis is in view

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

When something good happens

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

Reffering to a person younger than ya

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

Term meaning that a job has been completed... short for "the job is oxo."

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

To cause trouble

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

Strirabout=porridge(old phrase)

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...