Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

End slice of a loaf

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

Sparrow fart

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

Mocking someone with big ears

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

Parafurnalia/stuff/items

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

A term used to describe an older person that dressed in younger clothes to make them look young

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

For use in sentence instead of 'that'

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

Good enough to eat

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

Usually said after saying something smart or intelligent. A longer version of the sentence is 'Up here for thinking, down there for dancing, out there for shaking and down here for making' Usually one would point to their head then feet for the shortened sentence. If lengthened one should then shake their hands and then point to their mid section while saying the last two things.