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

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Superstition

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Middle of nowhere

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

My love, my dear. Also 'a gráín'

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Usually means 'of course ya did'

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

A term of endearnment to a fellow male

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

One of questionable moral or hygenic standards

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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...

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A crafty group of people who urged on our hurling teams and raised the amount of support for them to visually unsurpassed levels.

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Pronounced "like"

Generally used needlessly in a sentence, generally at the end.

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"That was great crack like"

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"Did you honestly do that like?"