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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

To 'beat up' someone.

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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: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Meaning going on the drink, going to the pub

 

"Here fella, you gonna go on the rip?"

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

She was fair ugly

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

From an old anti smoking advert

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

diahorrea

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Diarrhea

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Woman who likes any male genitalia anytime

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A shout of encouragment (usually at a GAA match)