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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Get The Poke?

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Used at the start of a lot of sentences, usually when disagreeing with someone

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

So am are = So I am

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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: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

A meadow with high, wilted grass is said to be full of 'thrawneens', from the Irish word for a blade of dry grass, tráithnín.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

I'm hungry

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To be covered in dirt

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

By God

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

1. an annoying young person.e.g. " I cant sell ye fags Davy, not if you're just goin to give them to them wee skitters standin outside the off-lisence"

2. a semi solid piece of faecal excretia e.g. "I shouldn't have horsed thon curry into me last night. I've gone and caught a dose o' the skitters"