Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

See Culchie

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

A fool/odd person

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

Hard to translate, roughly meaning fun - e.g. "We had great craic that night"

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

schtoor/dirt e.g. "I looked in that fridge and the mowld and the schtoor would make ye boke"

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

For definite

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

Expressing disbelief or shock, another way of saying are you serious or joking.

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

Something that tastes bad or is dirty

Details: 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...