School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 271
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- (continued from previous page)A Nippy Day = A sharp cold day
A Nasty Day = A wet cool day
A Tough Day = A day of severe weather or also a day inclined to rain (Holding tough from the rain)
A Hard Day = A dry cold day
A Blustery Day = A windy day.
A Ripening Day = A harvest day good for ripening crops also called a good harvest day.
It was a Sweeping Night = A night of big galesA Dreary Day = A dark foggy day often wet.
A lonesome Day = " " " " " "
A Killing Day = A very warm day often accompanied by fog.
The day ha a great hould or holt (hold) of the rain, much inclined to rain.
It is Bloody tough Weather.
It is Devilish tough Weather.
It is Hellish Cold Weather.
It is Mighty tough from the rain
A Black Day = A hard cold day of Easterly wind inclined for snow.
A Murky Day = A thick foggy day.
The Day is picking up (the weather will pick up now) The day (weather) will get fine
A broken Day = A Showery unsettled day
A hazzy Day = A foggy day with light rain
A Sickening Day (Weather) = A day of light rain (or weather of light rain or fogs)
A Dull Day = A day without sunshine
The weather is gone to blazes (Hell) or This day capped all.
This day was "beyond the beyonds" (very bad)
The weather is a show (seo) = The weather is a fright. The weather is gone to hell.
N.B. All the Above ARE LOCAL EXPRESSIONS RE. WEATHER VAGARIES.
