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

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

To not have a balls notion = To be completely clueless about something.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Good stuff

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

A right idiot

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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: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

An ice cream with wafers as in "two pokes and a slider please"

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

hard to beat, great

"good feed a spuds is hard te beat"

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To hit someone by punching them

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

A negative noun

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Euphemism describing the act of defecating, metaphorically speaking. Otherwise known as taking a good hard shyte for oneself. This particular expression is used when the excrement is of a particularly large and solid nature.