Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Disrespectful

e.g. "can you believe he asked me to go after what he done? the cheeck of it!"

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

Oul dry balls,

A term usually used to describe, an old man who is very tight with his money,

“sure luk at oul dry balls, up da road, bastard wouldn give ya a bean”

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

Ask someone are they mentally stable.

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

Tatters - e.g. "The dog left the shirt in flitters"

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

Saying that something isnt a lie

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

A derogatory word for a ginger girl

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

popular in the so-called "Triangle" area (that's Ballymoney, Coleraine, Portrush). used instead of "mate" e.g. "'bout ye sham" meaning "how are you mate?" Often claimed as an Ulster-Scots term. Ulster Scots is a "language" that has been spoken in Ireland for almost 10 whole years now.