Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

A stupid person.

"He's some numpty, hi."

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

A person who is a scourge on other people. A nuisance. An itch you may get after visiting monto

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

Be safe

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

To be very very happy

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

Mortified

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

A casual way of saying goodbye (my father is the only person I know that says this)

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

A wolly hat

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

to lose the head is to lose control in anger

"mate! will you just back of before I lose the head!"

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...