Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

A Ham Sandwich.

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

Literally scrotum, but often used as an insult. This term is also occasionally used affectionately.

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

Shouldnt be doin it

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

Someone who'll get what's comin to him.

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

Throw a bowl

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

Smoking joints

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

Being stooped or hump-backed, from the Irish cruit.

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

Saying that something isnt a lie

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'