Dictionary Entries
beir
bhéarfadh sé scian ort, he would take a knife to you (ML); bheir sé air, the dog bit him (MC); bheir a' chearc, the hen laid (MR)
béinne
rinne siad béinne de (le buillí), they knocked him stiff
béinn
A. Tá É. a' teacht aríst. B. Béinn Dé ort, a' bhfuil? (ML), and confirmed by (BR); the meaning seems to be something like 'Go to God, do you tell me so?' expressing a mixture of wonder and delight.
beilt
beilt ar shaighdiúr; also applied to a dog's collar
béal
tá tú cailltí púnáiltí i mbéal síogáin lá gimhridh (SBh), said of a person who has not the comfort of a hayshed, and has to stand in the face of a rick getting out fodder on a wet windy winter's day.
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baslú
a baslú fataí
barrach
a cíoradh baraigh, combing flax
bárr
tá bár míoltógaí ann, a lot of midges (out this evening), they would eat you.
bánú
bhí an t-oileán le bánú .i. na daoine le n-a thréiscint, to be evacuated.
baladh
madadh a' cur baladh, scenting, on the trail
bail
(fear) a chuirfeadh bail air héin, get married in time and set up a home for himself (MMt); go ngohadh droch-bhail orthaí, that she'd come to misfortune (a young pretty girl) at the hands of Arthur Nash (SBh)
bachlóg
chuir siad bachlóg ar a theangaidh, after which he could not speak properly or at all.
athchomair
tá sí sin ag imeacht go hathchomair, travelling fast. This was quoted for me by PsC as a Donegallism, i. the word athchomair.
ascaill sa bhfaraige
.i. lúbán isteach, tá fascadh ann.