Dictionary Entries
seadú
(tá) an ghaoth a' seadú, continuing, not settling or abating; (duine) a' seadú, ( a person) staying on in a house (instead of going home as he should continuing, staying on
baltaí na bó
cow's baren (note the first a is short)
coirbhthe
fear coirbthí, a cross man, would jump at you; tá sé coirbthí inniú, níl aon ghráinne tobac aige cross, short-tempered
gábhadh
níl gábh ar bith nach dtigeann duine as, there is no battle but somebody comes safe out of it (Sb); defect (of character); : ach bhí gábh ann - bheith a' caint oram-sa agus ort-sa; bhí sin go ghábh ionn, there was that fault in him, that little flaw in his character, to be talking about me and you (ML). danger, battle
deabhal
in the alliterative doublet deabhal ná deamhan / diún/ devil
codramanta
c. le bainne, "clotty" with milk, not hygienic (ML); bróch salach, codramant' (Sb). dirty, "clotty"
brocach
tá d'éadan bróch brocach salach dirty, filthy
grabhar
droch-mhóin (éadrom, geal), often with heather growing from the sod; it goes in dust
seisc
bearach sheisc, heifer not in calf (MMt); seisc-capall, a dry mare (Sb). dry
tur
dry, without condiment
pointeáiltí
exact, tight in money matters, (even) mean
gíoscán
5 million people to feed in London - is mór a' gíoscán é, they eat a lot, there is a lot of chewing on what they need in food F
comhthrom
what weight is this fish? tá meáchan cothrom ann, it is a fair weight; trí unsa (tobac) sa tseachtain, sin cathamh cothrom, that's fair smoking; cé' chaoi bhfuil na fataí agaibh? níl siad ach cothrom; sgoith fhataí cothroma, mixed middling potatoes, níl siad ionmholta ná ioncháinte annsin fair, middling
"sin í an Chaorthanach", a dúirt sé, "a bhí istigh agaibh"
you had the Chaorthanach in with ye
ar chúl na tine
the back of the fire