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piarsaí
ó d'anam go na piarsaín nach b'éard tá ann míol mór, your soul to the dickens isn't it a whal (POR). Ní droch-fhocal é (AL).
péiste na murlus
bíonn sé a' raithe i n-éis na murlus.
péic
an phéic, fox's brush is recorded by C. Bairéad from the Achréidh in Béaloideas, xxvii, 125. Cf. i bpéic an mhadra alla in Dic Buiréad's Tarraingt na Mónadh, IE, t. 532.
oirthí
an oirthí mhór /ǝN´ er´hi: wo:r/ agus an oirthí bheag seem to refer to two particular pieces of land, i. they are the names of two pieces of rich fertile land. Cf. the Erris adj. for fertile 'oireamhail' / ˡer´hu: l´/, D. Additions I, aireamhail.
oiread
ach orad leat héin, ní maith liom gleó (CN); no more than yourself, I don't like noise; ach orad leat héin, tá teangaidh mhath Ghaeilge aicí; ní rabh aon toirt ionntú ach orad le cuileógaí; ach orad le ceann cailleadh go hóg é, (cf. Hiberno-English) no more than another, he died young, i. like many another (PR).
oilbhéasach
bochaill oilbhéasach, suas le géimeannaí, a ghoidfeadh giorrán a chomharsa is a bhainfeadh marcaíocht as
nimheadóir
nimheadóir bradach, a sour fellow who won't take fun or a joke
neartrach
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nasc
i nasc, hemmed in, embraced,
muc
a' mhuc rua agus a' mhuc mhín: muca rua, scaly fish, bréams i mBéarla; dath silvery orthú: cho geal le scudán; same name in French (Wm) (perh. he had heard 'roussseau' from a French fisherman). a' mhuc mhín has no scales: níl aon lannach' orthú
méar
the fingers are in order - an ordóg, a' chorr-mhéar, a' mhéar fhada, a' mhéar fháinne (or méar an fháinne), a' laidhricín
méad
lé' mhéad a scanraigh Ifreann é, Hell frightened him so much
mac a' pheata
chuile mhac a' pheat' acú, every one of them, every mother's son of them
luinsgeóracht
a' l., a' bogadaigh ar a' mbóthar, staggering from drink
luimreóg
aliter luimneóg, a kind of crab (found out in the deep?): luimreógaí, portáiníní beaga glasa; bhéarfadh siad ort; nimhneach go maith