Irish Dance Terms are our attempt to label those Irish Dance things we know, but which don’t have a ‘real name’.

clusterfeis

noun clus·ter·feis \ˈklə-stər-fɛʃ\
1 : a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation :  a muddled mess, when it comes to anything related to Irish Dance
2 : a way to say what you are REALLY thinking when your Irish Dancers are in earshot and you can’t say what you are really thinking.

examples of clusterfeis

• The construction on I-65 North driving home from Nationals was a real clusterfeis

origin of clusterfeis

• Ohio English
• First known usage: 21st century