Dictionary Entries

grabhar

droch-mhóin (éadrom, geal), often with heather growing from the sod; it goes in dust

Translator: Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality: good

seisc

bearach sheisc, heifer not in calf (MMt); seisc-capall, a dry mare (Sb). dry

Translator: Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality: good

pointeáiltí

exact, tight in money matters, (even) mean

Translator: Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality: good

géarán

eye-tooth: cláir-fhiaclaí go dté tú go dtí an géarán

Translator: Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality: good

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

Translator: Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality: good

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

Translator: Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality: good

aimseógaí

'siad na haimseógaí a chuir ann é fairies

Translator: Seosamh Ó Cathail
Quality: good
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