8 Colorful Irish Slang Terms

1. Duck-house Door – a very thick slice of bread
2. Duck’s meat – mucus found in the eyes during sleep
3. Jook-Halter – one who has narrowly escaped hanging
4. Potato trap – mouth
5. Leather head – someone who is stupid
6. Bumbee work- nonsense
7. Read lead – lunchroom sausage
8. Turnip-snagger – rural dweller

Terms and definition from Slanguage: A Dictionary of Slang and Colliquial English in Ireland by Bernard Share (Gill and Macmillan, 1997).

Appeared in The Word Lover’s Book of Lists compiled by Louis Phillips.