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

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

you cant make something that looks bad look good

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Something that is very hard to find

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

going to bed

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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: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

shh, be quiet e.g. "Wheesht a minute, would ye"

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

meaning nightmare or disaster

eg. last night was blizzard.

can also mean drunk

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Someone who stands around the goals in a football match, not tackling back, in the hope that they will only have to score

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A euphemism for the toilet.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Meaning im not lying