School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ros Ó gCairbre (roll number 14813)
- Location:
- Ross Carbery, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Áilbe
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- (continued from previous page)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 manOwk - 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 personPatha - "peata", a petCawm Rellig - "cam roilige" a club foot Lawk - lámhach, generous, open-handedGlugger - a bad eggTilla - 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"(continues on next page)