Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Similar to 'footherin', fidgeting or fussing over something

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

When someone has had to many pills.

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

Usually reffers to people, either from good or bad families- sometimes sarcasem

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

A bit like "talk to the hand because the face isn't listening"

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

Used to address a person who's name you've forgotten, and at the end of every sentence

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

Extremely dirty

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

Used as a negative description of something.

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

Drunk

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

Having a very poor tolerance level. The word threshold is the part of the door frame that you step over. In times gone by it was the peice of wood that went accross the doorway to stop the straw or hay (thresh) from spilling out of the house, long before carpets were used. Hence the word 'threshold'