Dictionary Entries

pótaire

toper, drunkard

mar-thiompó

ghá mar-thiompó héin (she was) tumbling tumbling (of horse)

torabord

turbot, iasc mór leathan

aghaidh béil

aghaidh béil a thabhairt ar a' tsagart, turn your lip on, give out (abusive language) to the priest.

slód

tussock out of which sea-pink grows (Wm); PsC has doubts about this meaning. According to MCd the slód is where sea-birds build their nests.

mún

airigead na caillighe is é á mhún faoi na ballaí urinating

suicín! suicín!

used to call a calf

preabaire na gcapall

wasp

sail

(má tá) sail bhuí i n-a cluais, beidh árd-im orthaí; if she has yellow wax in her ear, there will be greast butter on her milk wax (in ear)

luifearnach

weeds (collective)

bun a chúl

tá siad i n-a suí go bláfar bun a chúl .i. a dtastáil acú well off

caislín

wheat-ear; considered to be one of the "sleepers"

coirdín fidháin

wild carrot: bláth a' mheachain air, bláth bán mar a' fuarán: an bonn (a' fréamh) go maith le n-ith

go leór

ní hé go leór é, it isn't much. with neg., much

suimplí

with s-leathan is the dialect form of the usual simplidhe.

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