Dictionary Entries

comh-aois

comh-aois Mháire í, she is the same age as Máire

cóir

níl éinne a fhanans le cóir nach bhfánn é (sean-ocal)

cluas

bain a' chluas duíom má thugann tú an lámh faoi'n talamh leat (ars an tAthair Mánus) (Sb). = 'mark my words'.

ciontaí

ní rabh ciontaí ar bith aige liom-s, he had no fault to find with me

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)

airicis

tine chnámh in ' airicis, to receive him, to welcome him home.

fiar

fiar tugthaí dhó, it put on a slant; ar fiar, on a slant a slant

stocán láidir go ghasúr

a strong sturdy stump of a lad

céiseóg

banbh céiseóige ar a' gcéad ál, a piglet of a sow's first litter. a young sow having first litter

magpies

according to the number seen together at a time portend: 1, mí-á; 2, á; 3, socraoid; 4, pósadh

forseamálaí

an awkward woman about a house

bing

bing a bheith air an upward limit or ceiling to be set to the number of cattle to be taken in from each tenant for grazing on commons land

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