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

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Untrustworthy male person, often a politician - e.g. "I always knew he was a cute hoor"

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

For use in sentence instead of 'that'

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Old-fashioned term for dating, could mean anything from holding hands to a sweaty shag in a haystack. Generally used by people who still call a radio a wireless.

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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

Unkept, ugly, rough

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

You will Yeah !!

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Used to describe someone or something that is smelly/ugly/dirty etc

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Describes something that couldnt be beaten or topped.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

To not have a balls notion = To be completely clueless about something.