Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Saying for doin stupid things

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

Licking/riden up d arse when d female is on their jam.

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

embarassed

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

Mixed up from Irish

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

Gile= unreal talent

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

Told

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...