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Word
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Meaning
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a leana cúra (a leanbh cumhra)!
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my fragrant child - sweet smelling
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a leanbh! mo chumhra bán!
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child! my beloved fragrance
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a mhic!
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my son
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a stór!
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my treasure!
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ainnis
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miserable (sick person, not well)
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amadán
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a fool
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baitín (bateen)
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strong stick or baton
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banbh
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bonham or piglet
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bastún (bostoon)
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an ignorant kind of person
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bean sí- banshee
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a fairy woman, also called the ‘bow’
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beart (of hay, straw etc)
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bundle carried on back
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bia!bia (bee,bee)
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calling
turkeys (food!)
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bogán
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soft shelled egg
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bóithrín (boreen)
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little road (from bóthar which means cow pass)
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botún
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to make a botún (a mistake)
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brosna (brusna)
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armful of sticks,firewood
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brus
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dust (bits of straw) (bruscar)
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buachalán buí
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rag wort, noxious weed also ‘geosadán’
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buaile
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a ‘booley’ (milking place)
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cáibín (caubeen)
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an old hat
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caoineadh (keening)
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crying at a wake long ago
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cíléir (keeler)
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shallow wooden vessel where milk ‘set’ in during churning, a cream
tub,-cream was then skimmed
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ciotóg
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left-handed person
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cipín
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little stick
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cis (pronounced ‘kish’)
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a basket (from ciseán)
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créatúr (craythur)
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a person to be pitied.
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crúibín
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pig’s foot
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doirnín (a durneen)or dúirnín
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one of the two grips on a scythe
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dromán (drumawn)
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strap on horse’s back when ploughing
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dúidín (dudeen)
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short stemmed pipe (usually refers to a clay pipe)
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flaithiúlacht
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a generous person
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gabhlóg
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fork shaped stick used for cutting bushes with a sickle
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gaisce
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a deed
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gasúr (gorsoon)
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young boy
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geansaí
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a jersey
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giorróg (gearróg)
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short drill or furrow
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gog (goggy)
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boiled egg
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grafán
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hoe, grubber
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gríosach (greesock)
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ashes with small burning coals or embers
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gruamach
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glum, sour person
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losaid (losset)
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wooden trough for kneading dough
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lúbán
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twisted or bent out of shape
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ludramán
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a lazy, idle fellow
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lúidín
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the little finger
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marla
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clay(marl), plasticine
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meas
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respect, ‘I have great meas on him’
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megín
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covering for a sore finger made from calico and tied at wrist- from
‘méirin’-the little finger
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óinseach
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a foolish (woman)
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olagón
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wail
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pincín (pinkeen)
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a minnow
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piseog
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superstition
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plámás
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flattery
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poitín(poteen)
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illicit whiskey
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práiscín
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an apron made from hemp bag
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praiseach
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a harmful weed (charlock), to break in pieces
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pus
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lips, mouth
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ráiméis
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nonsense, foolish talk
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ráth
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a rath, a fort:ráithín (raheen) a little fort
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sceach
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thorn bush
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scealp
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a skelp, a blow
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sciollán (skillaun)
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seed potato
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scráib (scraub)
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a scrape or scratch
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scríd
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a screed, a rag. ‘I didn’t have a screed to wear to the dance’.
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searús
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bitter person, sour
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seilchide (sealakipuka)
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a snail (seilide)
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sí gí (si gaoithe)
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whirlwind (fairy wind) (sigín- little whirlwind)
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sibín (shebeen)
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illicit ‘ale’ house (there was one in Ballybrazil)
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slane (sleán)
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turf spade
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slibhín(sleveen)
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a sly, sneaky fellow
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smithiríní (smithereens)
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broken in small pieces
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soc
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sock or share of a plough
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sop
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a wisp,a handful of hay
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stibhín (stiveen)
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stick for making holes- a dibble
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stillín (stellan)
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a stillion, shelf in kitchen for buckets of water, keelers
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straoill
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an untidy person
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súgán
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hay or straw rope
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taobhín
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a patch on a boot or shoe
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taoscán (tay-us-kan)
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a right taoscán (of drink)- a good quantity
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tioc!tioc!
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calling hens and chickens
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tráithnín (trawneen)
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a strong blade of grass
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