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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A term for a cup of tea - where tea is typically hot - or 'scaldy'

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Slang term for heroin in Dublin

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

In christ's name I swear I will hit you

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Off your head

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Usually said after saying something smart or intelligent. A longer version of the sentence is 'Up here for thinking, down there for dancing, out there for shaking and down here for making' Usually one would point to their head then feet for the shortened sentence. If lengthened one should then shake their hands and then point to their mid section while saying the last two things.

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To describe an Ugly or Smelly person.

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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!" 

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Wild, crazy

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

One who is described as a "bit simple" or "not all there upstairs"