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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Inside or in.

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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

To describe the bad looks off another person

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Idiot

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Diahorrea

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Just an awl ponse

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Greeting, Hello

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

A soft drink. Usually given out free with a sausage special in the local take away.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

A charactaristic way of walking, sometimes implying insult but not necessarily. A certain grace of movement displayed by most Leitrim people.