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<text><body><div><p><span>Leinster Feis.</span></p>
<lb n="1"/>
<lb n="2"/><p><span>Competition No. 3.</span></p>
<lb n="3"/>
<lb n="4"/><p><span>Irish Words in the Spoken English </span>
<lb n="5"/><span>of Leinster.</span></p>
<lb n="6"/>
<lb n="7"/><p><span>Cianóg, half a farthing.  "I have not as much as </span>
<lb n="8"/><span>a cianóg."</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>Cí-cá, a handful of coins scattered or flung about</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>among the bacachs at a wedding.</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>Ceannabhán beag, a small plant which grows in </span>
<lb n="12"/><span>boggy land.</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>Cois-balla, the chimney-piece, or wall between the</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>fire and the door in country houses, built for shelter</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>and as a support for the clabhar, or chimney-stick.</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>Ciaróg, a black chafer. </span>
<lb n="17"/><span>Cluais.  "He had a cluais on him listening to</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>everything we said" = He was carefully taking in all</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>we said, while keeping out of the conversation him-</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>self.  (Not cluas).</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>Cluasaidhe, a dunce; a sull, silent person. </span>
<lb n="22"/><span>Círín, the lobe of the ear; the flesh of the jaw.</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>"I caught him by the círín."</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>Claoidheachán, a low mound, or partly levelled clay</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>fence.</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>Clab, a big, open mouth.</span></p>
</div>
<pb n="109"/>
<div><lb n="27"/><p><span>Clabaire, a big-mouthed person.</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>Cleabhaitín, a clout, or cloth for wrapping round a </span>
<lb n="29"/><span>baby.</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>Clais, a trench.</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>Céilidh, an evening visit, or gathering of people in a </span>
<lb n="32"/><span>country house  to pass an evening talking, card-playing,</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>reading newspapers, &c. This word is heard in North</span>
<lb n="34"/><span>Leinster.</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>Cuaird, same as céilidh, (South Leinster) "He is</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>gone on his cuaird." "He came in on his cuaird,</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>and stayed till 10 o'clock."</span>
<lb n="38"/><span>Cuardaídheacht, same as cuaird, but more commonly </span>
<lb n="39"/><span>used in South Leinster.  "We went cuardaidheacht."</span>
<lb n="40"/><span>"He came cuardaídheacht."  (Ag cuardadh aoidheacht?)</span>
<lb n="41"/><span>Carn and cárnán, a heap.</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>Cuardóir, one who goes ag cuardaidheacht.</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>Cúl-báile, a store of provisions (potatoes, meal, &c.)</span>
<lb n="44"/><span>kept for a certain occasion, as eggs collected and kept</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>for Easter, or potatoes stored carefully for the spring </span>
<lb n="46"/><span>and early summer months, or for seed.</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>Cuiseóg, a piece of dry, withered stalk (potato, fern,</span>
<lb n="48"/><span>&c.) for lighting a pipe or candle.</span>
<lb n="49"/><span>Cramhtán, a half sod of turf.</span>
<lb n="50"/><span>Crannan, one of the two handles attached to a scythe-</span>
<lb n="51"/><span>tree.</span>
<lb n="52"/><span>Crónán, the purring of a cat; humming a song to</span>
<lb n="53"/><span>oneself.</span>
<lb n="54"/><span>Cronánaidhe, one who hums a song; one who is </span>
<lb n="55"/><span>always complaining or bemoaning.</span>
<lb n="56"/><span>Broisín, a cruth.</span>
<lb n="57"/><span>Cró, a pigsty.  (North Leinster).</span>
<lb n="58"/><span>Crochtín, a croft or small field.  (Kilkenny).</span>
<lb n="59"/><span>Crúb, the foot of a pib, calf, or other animal whose</span>
<lb n="60"/><span>hoof is divided.  a short, thick-fingered hand.</span>
<lb n="61"/><span>Cráig, as much as the hand can grasp of meal, &c.</span>
<lb n="62"/><span>Cnap, a lump or knob; a short, stout person.</span>
<lb n="63"/><span>Crupóg, a heavy stone; as much as a man can lift.</span>
<lb n="64"/><span>Curaiceach, unsteady.  "It is very curaiceach" = it</span>
<lb n="65"/><span>is very shaky.</span>
<lb n="66"/><span>Cluaisín, some part of an animal's heart not fit for</span>
<lb n="67"/><span>eating.</span>
<lb n="68"/><span>Cruach.  Cruach measure = as much as can be heaped </span>
<lb n="69"/><span>on the quairt or bushel; in contradistinction to water</span>
<lb n="70"/><span>measure.  "Fill it cruach" = heap it up.</span>
<lb n="71"/><span>Cruach bán, or cróch bán, the white flower of the </span>
<lb n="72"/><span>yarrow plant.</span>
<lb n="73"/><span>Cruach na mbánta (or cróch, &c.), a plant which grows</span>
<lb n="74"/><span>on moors, a foot or 18 inches high, with a blue flower.</span>
<lb n="75"/><span>Croch, an iron bar suspended from a beam in the </span>
<lb n="76"/><span>chimney, on which a pot or kettle is hung over the</span>
<lb n="77"/><span>fire.</span>
<lb n="78"/><span>Crochaire, a hangman; a knavish fellow.</span>
<lb n="79"/><span>Cromóg, a crooked foot.</span>
<lb n="80"/><span>Cam-roilig, a club-foot.  It is said that if a pregnant</span>
<lb n="81"/><span>woman turned her foot in a graveyard, the child would</span>
<lb n="82"/><span>be born with a cam-roilig.</span>
<lb n="83"/><span>Crúibín, a pig's foot.</span>
<lb n="84"/><span>Crúibín cait, a cat's paw.  In frosty weather, if a </span>
<lb n="85"/><span>child complains of its hands being cold, it will be asked</span>
<lb n="86"/><span>to make a crúibín cait - i.e., to bring the two outside</span>
<lb n="87"/><span>fingers inwards over the two middle ones, holding</span>
<lb n="88"/><span>them in position with the thumb.  If its hand is numb</span>
<lb n="89"/><span>or very cold it cannot do so.</span>
<lb n="90"/><span>Ciotóg, the left hand.</span>
<lb n="91"/><span>Ciotógaidhe, a left-handed person.</span>
<lb n="92"/><span>Ciotógach, left-handed.</span>
<lb n="93"/><span>Ciotach, awkward.  When a person gets into a hobble</span>
<lb n="94"/><span>from which a little foresight would have saved him,</span>
<lb n="95"/><span>people say - "He did that very ciotach."</span>
<lb n="96"/><span>Cráidhte, grudging; miserly; chagrined.</span>
<lb n="97"/><span>Cráidhteachán, a narrow-hearted, miserly person.</span>
<lb n="98"/><span>Curach, a moor.</span>
<lb n="99"/><span>Cnáirseáil, grumbling; dissatisfied, fault-finding.</span>
<lb n="100"/><span>Same as cannrán.</span>
<lb n="101"/><span>Cnagachán, an unmannerly, impudent girl or woman.</span>
<lb n="102"/><span>Cré, a wretch; a poor, hard-working woman.</span>
<lb n="103"/><span>Cruic, a stiffness in the neck.  "There is a cruic</span>
<lb n="104"/><span>in my neck."</span>
<lb n="105"/><span>Cliamhain, a son-in-law living with his wife's parents.</span>
<lb n="106"/><span>"He went in a cliamhain there."</span>
<lb n="107"/><span>Cruit, a hump.  "A man with a cruit on his back."</span>
<lb n="108"/><span>"That calf has a cruit on him." Also the shank of</span>
<lb n="109"/><span>a cabbage-leaf and the pulp of the stalk.</span>
<lb n="110"/><span>Cruiteachán, a hunchback.</span>
<lb n="111"/><span>Cuma, shape, appearance. </span>
<lb n="112"/><span>Ceapaire, a piece of bread well buttered.</span>
<lb n="113"/><span>Cníopaire, a miser.</span>
<lb n="114"/><span>Cabhal, an old ruin; the walls of a fallen house.</span>
<lb n="115"/><span>Cúis gáire chughainn, cause of laughter to us.  Said</span>
<lb n="116"/><span>on hearing a story that provokes laughter.</span>
<lb n="117"/><span>Clábar, muck or mire. (North Leinster.)</span>
<lb n="118"/><span>Crap, to cut or shorten.  "Crap my hair". </span>
<lb n="119"/><span>Cnoc, knock, a furzy hill.</span></p>
<lb n="120"/>
<lb n="121"/><p><span>Dailtín, a term of contempt applied to young</span>
<lb n="122"/><span>women and girls.  It seems to mean proud, bold, or</span>
<lb n="123"/><span>impudent.</span>
<lb n="124"/><span>Dallacán, a half-blind person.</span>
<lb n="125"/><span>Damsa, a fat, heavy child.</span>
<lb n="126"/><span>Deas-chaint, sweet talk.</span>
<lb n="127"/><span>Deascán.  Picking deascán's = picking the straws</span>
<lb n="128"/><span>or gleanings off the stubble.</span>
<lb n="129"/><span>Deallramh, appearance.  "He has no</span>
<lb n="130"/><span>deallramh of work on him."</span>
<lb n="131"/><span>Deoch an dorais, the last drink in a public-house </span>
<lb n="132"/><span>before leaving for home.</span>
<lb n="133"/><span>Diuc, a stooped or bent appearance; an appearance</span>
<lb n="134"/><span>of being ill.  "He has a diuc on him."</span>
<lb n="135"/><span>Diucachán, a stooped person.</span>
<lb n="136"/><span>Diúg, a draining.  "He drank every diúg of it" = </span>
<lb n="137"/><span>He drained it. </span>
<lb n="138"/><span>Deoirín, a drop.</span>
<lb n="139"/><span>Deigh-deágh, a gee-gaw; a cheap, gaudy article of </span>
<lb n="140"/><span>dress.</span>
<lb n="141"/><span>Dórnán, a sour-faced, boorish, in hospitable person. </span>
<lb n="142"/><span>Dórnóg, a covering for the left hand when cutting </span>
<lb n="143"/><span>furze, briars, or bushes with a billhook.</span>
<lb n="144"/><span>Dosaire and dosairín, a good-for-nothing person</span>
<lb n="145"/><span>Deargadaol, a long, black insect found in fields.</span>
<lb n="146"/><span>(Spelled dardaol in books, and so pronounced in </span>
<lb n="147"/><span>North Leinster.)</span>
<lb n="148"/><span>Dúr, stubborn.  "As dúr as a pig."</span>
<lb n="149"/><span>Dranna, a grinning mouth; a grin.</span>
<lb n="150"/><span>Drannachán, one who is always grinning, or half-</span>
<lb n="151"/><span>laughing.</span>
<lb n="152"/><span>Drannaire, same as drannachán.</span>
<lb n="153"/><span>Druganna, numbness in the hands in very cold</span>
<lb n="154"/><span>weather, called in Meath "gloorucks," according to a </span>
<lb n="155"/><span>writer in the Gaelic Journal.</span>
<lb n="156"/><span>Drúcht and drúchtán, a slight mist of rain.</span>
<lb n="157"/><span>Domhan Tiar.  If you were sinking a pump, and</span>
<lb n="158"/><span>could not get water, it would be said "You will go</span>
<lb n="159"/><span>down to the domhan tiar before you get water."</span>
<lb n="160"/><span>Dúiseacht, great punishment or hardship.  "He'll</span>
<lb n="161"/><span>get dúiseacht."</span>
<lb n="162"/><span>Dúidín, a short, black pipe.</span>
<lb n="163"/><span>Dríodar, dregs, drainings.</span>
<lb n="164"/><span>Dia linn, God with us; God bless us; said after</span>
<lb n="165"/><span>sneezing or yawning.</span>
<lb n="166"/><span>Duilleasg, an edible kind of seaweed.</span></p>
</div>
<pb n="110"/>
<div><lb n="167"/><p><span>Dromán, the overband - an article of ploughing</span>
<lb n="168"/><span>harness. </span>
<lb n="169"/><span>Déas, an ear of corn.</span>
<lb n="170"/><span>Dórnán, also means a scythe-handle, same as</span>
<lb n="171"/><span>crannán.</span>
<lb n="172"/><span>Draid, a grinning mouth.</span></p>
<lb n="173"/>
<lb n="174"/><p><span>Éadáil, a stroke of good fortune; a boon.  "It's a </span>
<lb n="175"/><span>great éadáil to me."</span>
<lb n="176"/><span>Easair, a layer of corn for threshing with the flail.</span>
<lb n="177"/><span>Éadtromán, the lights of an animal.</span>
<lb n="178"/><span>Eas-luachair, the little reptile called alp-luachra in</span>
<lb n="179"/><span>some parts of Ireland, and concerning which there is </span>
<lb n="180"/><span>a story in "Cois na Teineadh."</span></p>
<lb n="181"/>
<lb n="182"/><p><span>Fach, to ridicule.  "He'd fach at you if you told him</span>
<lb n="183"/><span>that," meaning he would not believe it.</span>
<lb n="184"/><span>Falmaire, a tall man.  It conveys the idea of a </span>
<lb n="185"/><span>stranger or tramp, and generally has "big" prefixed.</span>
<lb n="186"/><span>Famharan, a bore-plant.</span>
<lb n="187"/><span>Fannc.  "It did not take a fannc out of him to</span>
<lb n="188"/><span>lift the stone" = He did not experience any difficulty,</span>
<lb n="189"/><span>&c.  "He tried to lift it, but could not take a fannc</span>
<lb n="190"/><span>out of it."  "He drank the full tumbler of whiskey,</span>
<lb n="191"/><span>and it did not take a fannc out of him" - i.e., did not</span>
<lb n="192"/><span>affect him in the least.</span>
<lb n="193"/><span>Faic, a whit.  "There is not a faic on him" = there</span>
<lb n="194"/><span>is nothing the matter with him.</span>
<lb n="195"/><span>Fadhbáil, searching for something about a room, and </span>
<lb n="196"/><span>creating disorder; fumbling.</span>
<lb n="197"/><span>Fathach, a champion.  Used in derision.  "What a </span>
<lb n="198"/><span>fathach he is."</span>
<lb n="199"/><span>Fág an baile, leave the town; clear the way.</span>
<lb n="200"/><span>Fruiseál, working in a hurried, untidy manner.</span>
<lb n="201"/><span>Fruiseálaidhe, one who rushes hastily through a</span>
<lb n="202"/><span>piece of work, only half-doing it.</span>
<lb n="203"/><span>Fuachtan, a sore which comes on children's feet in </span>
<lb n="204"/><span>winter, caused by cold.</span>
<lb n="205"/><span>Fóirtnéal, a very small egg.</span>
<lb n="206"/><span>Fail, a doss; a dirty untidy bed.</span>
<lb n="207"/><span>Fobha, a resolve.  "I took a fobha."  There's a </span>
<lb n="208"/><span>good fobha in him." = He would do a good turn when </span>
<lb n="209"/><span>he took a notion.</span>
<lb n="210"/><span>Forgach, same as falmaire.</span>
<lb n="211"/><span>Futa-fata, excited haste.</span>
<lb n="212"/><span>Fuisgealach, as much meal, grain &c., as can be </span>
<lb n="213"/><span>taken between the two hands. </span>
<lb n="214"/><span>Filibín, an instrument for making súgans.  Also a </span>
<lb n="215"/><span>kind of plover.</span>
<lb n="216"/><span>Fothrom, a tall plant.  When the seed is ripe, it</span>
<lb n="217"/><span>rattles with the wind.  The leaves are used for making</span>
<lb n="218"/><span>poultices.</span>
<lb n="219"/><span>Flaitheamhlach, generous.</span>
<lb n="220"/><span>Fang, a "whang" or boot-lace.</span>
<lb n="221"/><span>Folach Fhinn, a heap of clay and gravel found in land</span>
<lb n="222"/><span>which was never tilled; also a black patch in a tilled</span>
<lb n="223"/><span>field where such a heap had been levelled or taken</span>
<lb n="224"/><span>away (pr. flach Fhínn).</span>
<lb n="225"/><span>Fealltach, false.  "That potato is fealltach" - i.e.,</span>
<lb n="226"/><span>false in the centre. (Pr., famhtach.)</span>
<lb n="227"/><span>Fraoch, heather. </span>
<lb n="228"/><span>Fraochán, the whort berry.</span>
<lb n="229"/><span>Fiarán, used same as seachrán.</span></p>
<lb n="230"/>
<lb n="231"/><p><span>Gáileóg, a "jorum" of whiskey or punch.  "They</span>
<lb n="232"/><span>drank a gáileóg."</span>
<lb n="233"/><span>Gaillseach, a small, brown, creeping insect, for</span>
<lb n="234"/><span>which the country-people have a great dislike.</span>
<lb n="235"/><span>Gámóga, pretensions; affectation; boasting.</span>
<lb n="236"/><span>Gaimbín, a jot of tobacco.  People sometimes play</span>
<lb n="237"/><span>cards for a small pieces of tobacco instead of coppers.</span>
<lb n="238"/><span>These are called gaimbíní.</span>
<lb n="239"/><span>Gam and Gamach, a simpleton.</span>
<lb n="240"/><span>Gealán, a sunbeam.</span>
<lb n="241"/><span>Gearrach, a short potato drill or ridge.</span>
<lb n="242"/><span>Gárlach, a child.</span>
<lb n="243"/><span>Gar, turf-mould.</span>
<lb n="244"/><span>Garsún, a little boy.</span>
<lb n="245"/><span>Giobal, a rag; an untidy lock of hair.</span>
<lb n="246"/><span>Geois, a full paunch.</span>
<lb n="247"/><span>Geocach, a beggar; one who asks alms; a mean person.</span>
<lb n="248"/><span>Giob, a snatch; to snatch or pull.</span>
<lb n="249"/><span>Glamaire, one who talks loudly.</span>
<lb n="250"/><span>Glaic, a handful.</span>
<lb n="251"/><span>Glám, a grasp.</span>
<lb n="252"/><span>Glinncín, a silly person.</span>
<lb n="253"/><span>Garbhóg, a large, rough stone.</span>
<lb n="254"/><span>Glámhán, complaining; bewailing.</span>
<lb n="255"/><span>Gabha, a blacksmith.</span>
<lb n="256"/><span>Gabhlóg, a forked stick; a fork of a tree.</span>
<lb n="257"/><span>Gabhal, the fork.</span>
<lb n="258"/><span>Gob, a small mouth.</span>
<lb n="259"/><span>Go súgach, merrily.</span>
<lb n="260"/><span>Go leor, plenty.</span>
<lb n="261"/><span>Go grádhmhar, lovingly.</span>
<lb n="262"/><span>Giolla púicín, a game, called dalla-púicín in some</span>
<lb n="263"/><span>places. </span>
<lb n="264"/><span>Giulcach, the broom plant.</span>
<lb n="265"/><span>Gaduighe, a sly, silent person.</span>
<lb n="266"/><span>Gamaile or gamairle, a half fool.</span>
<lb n="267"/><span>Gliogar, the rattle of a bad egg.</span>
<lb n="268"/><span>Gaisgeadh, a great action.</span>
<lb n="269"/><span>Go bhféachaidh Dia orainn!  May God look on us!</span>
<lb n="270"/><span>Glib, a lock of hair.</span>
<lb n="271"/><span>Grafán or graf, an instrument for cutting a heap</span>
<lb n="272"/><span>of manure.</span>
<lb n="273"/><span>Gannga, a fellow with long legs.</span>
<lb n="274"/><span>Gamhan ruadh, a two-year-old milch cow.</span>
<lb n="275"/><span>Guaigín, a silly fellow.</span>
<lb n="276"/><span>Gráin, disgust.  "It would put gráin on you" = it</span>
<lb n="277"/><span>would disgust you..</span>
<lb n="278"/><span>Gramhas, the physiognomy.</span>
<lb n="279"/><span>Gíog, a squeak.</span>
<lb n="280"/><span>Gríosach, embers.</span>
<lb n="281"/><span>Gabh isteach.  "He gets his gabh isteach" = he gets </span>
<lb n="282"/><span>his bit and sup.</span>
<lb n="283"/><span>Gabh craobh, take (the) branch; said when trying to </span>
<lb n="284"/><span>coax a swarm of bees to perch.</span>
<lb n="285"/><span>Gor, a warming, or heat of the fire.</span>
<lb n="286"/><span>Gúisín, a year-old goose.</span>
<lb n="287"/><span>Gág, a crack in the heel caused by cold.</span>
<lb n="288"/><span>Grádh-Dhia, a charity; anything done for charity.</span>
<lb n="289"/><span>Gas, a stalk.</span>
<lb n="290"/><span>Grug, "She was sitting on her grug" = on her</span>
<lb n="291"/><span>"hunkers".</span>
<lb n="292"/><span>Greib, a pinch of want.</span>
<lb n="293"/><span>Grán-beirbhthe, boiled wheat.</span>
<lb n="294"/><span>Gramaisg, rubbish; riff-raff.</span>
<lb n="295"/><span>Glúnach, a disease of the feet in ducks and geese;</span>
<lb n="296"/><span>bumblefoot (?).</span>
<lb n="297"/><span>Glúinín, a bundle of furze or other litter, cut with </span>
<lb n="298"/><span>a bill-hook and kept in shape by the left hand and the </span>
<lb n="299"/><span>knee.</span>
<lb n="300"/><span>Gráineog, a hedgehog.</span></p>
<lb n="301"/>
<lb n="302"/><p><span>(Ní chríoch).</span></p>
<lb n="303"/>
<lb n="304"/><p><span>Seann-draoi.</span></p>
<lb n="305"/>
<lb n="306"/><p>
<lb n="307"/></p></div></body></text></TEI>
Historical Irish Corpus
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