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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ros Ó gCairbre (roll number 14813)

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Ross Carbery, Co. Cork
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An tSr. Áilbe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0308, Page 084

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  1. List of Irish Words and Phrases that Have Been Adopted into the Popular English Speech (continued)

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    Geab - geab - talk or chatter

    Tray na hayla - tré na céile, upset, mixed up, not in order

    Scuird - "scuird to you" meaning you deserved it,
    "It was the "price" of you

    Skov - "sceamh" a grimace, an ugly face

    Gawg - gág the name given to a dry cut or split in the skin of a man's fingers

    Caboge - cabóg, a vulgar ignorant man
    Owk - abhac, a dwarfed person

    Crith - cruit, a hump, rounded or stooped shoulders

    Critahawn - a person having a hump or stooped shoulders

    Pussacawn - a child that cries on the least provocation

    Smulkahawn - a person that has thick coarse features, large and thick lips

    Breekeens - bricíní, small fish

    Gob and Clob - mouth, used in reference to a person who talks too much

    Sheevra - a thin miserable delicate looking person
    Patha - "peata", a pet
    Cawm Rellig - "cam roilige" a club foot
    Lawk - lámhach, generous, open-handed
    Glugger - a bad egg
    Tilla - tuille, a little extra, another drop

    Gligeen - gligín, a small dandy person, or a giddy person

    Plamaws - plamás flattery, soft talk, "Blarney"
    Ramesh or Rawmash - foolish talk "raiméis"
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