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<text><body><div><p><span>FEIS LAIGHEAN AGUS MIDHE, 1901.</span></p>
<lb n="1"/>
<lb n="2"/><p><span>NO. 3 COMPETITION.</span></p>
<lb n="3"/>
<lb n="4"/><p><span>Irish Word.  English Meaning.</span></p>
<lb n="5"/>
<lb n="6"/><p><span>Póirín - a small potato.</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>Pisireóg - a superstition.</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>Paraisín - a foundling.</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>Poitín - illicit whiskey.</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>Pludach - mud.</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>Ráithín - a small rath.</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>Clab - an uncomplimentary name for the</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>mouth (Co. Carlow).</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>Seach - a smoke (as give me a seach of the pipe).</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>Scolb - a splinter of wood (used in thatching</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>a house).</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>Sceach - a white thorn.</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>Siurán - [siumhrán?] a weed (the wild parsnip).</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>Spiodóg - [= spideóg] a tall, hungry-looking</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>man or boy.</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>Sagart - the priest.</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>Spág - a name for an ungainly foot.</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>Scrath - a thin sod of grass.</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>Sean-tigh - an old house.</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>Sciodóg - a thin stick (a Carlow word).</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>Siubhlóir - a tramp (a common word in Dublin</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>and Wicklow).</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>Seachrán- astray (as "he is on the seachrán").</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>Snais [= snas] - flavour, taste.</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>Scrám  - to scratch or tear with the nails.</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>Síbín - a house where drink is sold without a </span>
<lb n="32"/><span>licence.</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>Seamróg - the shamrock (pronounced shamrogue).</span>
<lb n="34"/><span>Straimhéig - to stroll about aimlessly.</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>Síorádh - a sudden run sidewars.</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>Strochlán - an untidy rag or string hanging about</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>you.</span>
<lb n="38"/><span>Slug - to drink, of drinking in haste.</span>
<lb n="39"/><span>Sgodailín - buttermilk well thinned with water.</span>
<lb n="40"/><span>Tráithnín - the seed-bearing stalk of grass.</span>
<lb n="41"/><span>Thuais - to lift up or lift (as give me a hoosh up</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>on the horse.)  [Is it thuas, above?]</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>Grumach - a frowning or surly look on a person.</span>
<lb n="44"/><span>Súgán - a straw rope.</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>Bladar - nonsensical talk.</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>Slám - to daub or besmear.</span></p>
<lb n="47"/>
<lb n="48"/><p><span>PHRASES.</span></p>
<lb n="49"/>
<lb n="50"/><p><span>Amach go bráth, as "amach go brath with him to</span>
<lb n="51"/><span>America" (used in Co. Carlow).</span></p>
<lb n="52"/>
<lb n="53"/><p><span>Sagart a leanbh, a phrase used in Co. Wicklow for</span>
<lb n="54"/><span>frightening children, as, "when you go to school you</span>
<lb n="55"/><span>will get sagart a leanbh."</span></p>
<lb n="56"/>
<lb n="57"/><p><span>Trí n-a chéile, in confusion or mixed up (used in Wick-</span>
<lb n="58"/><span>low and Dublin).</span></p>
<lb n="59"/>
<lb n="60"/><p><span>Lán a' mhála, full and plenty (used all over the County</span>
<lb n="61"/><span>of Wicklow).</span></p>
<lb n="62"/>
<lb n="63"/><p><span>A leanbh, a mhúirnín, a stór, a stóirín, a chuisle, a</span>
<lb n="64"/><span>chuisle mo chroidhe, a ghrádh, a ghrádh mo chroidhe, a</span>
<lb n="65"/><span>chara, a mhic, a mhic mo chroidhe, a rún, a bhuachaill,</span>
<lb n="66"/><span>a stór mo chroidhe, a leanbh mo chroidhe, a chuid (Co.</span>
<lb n="67"/><span>Carlow), a théagar, as endearing expressions.  These</span>
<lb n="68"/><span>are used commonly in Wicklow and Dublin without</span>
<lb n="69"/><span>any regard for the proper meaning of them (except</span>
<lb n="70"/><span>a chuid).</span></p>
<lb n="71"/>
<lb n="72"/><p><span>Mo bhrón, my sorrow, alas; Fág a' bhealach, clear the</span>
<lb n="73"/><span>way; A Mhuire, a wirra; A Mhuire is truagh; Slán</span>
<lb n="74"/><span>leat, good bye; Beannacht leat, good bye.  In</span>
<lb n="75"/><span>common use in Co. Wicklow and Dublin.</span></p>
<lb n="76"/>
<lb n="77"/><p><span>CAOILTE MAC RÓNÁIN.</span></p>
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<lb n="79"/><p>
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