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1. Focla Gaeilge atá in Úsáid Fós i mBéal na mBéarlóirí i gCo. na Mí (continued)

   

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   108) Griúsach, red-hot ashes. Pron. Gree-sheh
   109) Cáicín = a little cake
   110) Cruit = a hump
   111) Cailleach = a bad potato, shrivelled etc.
   112) Poll a bhásain. Pron. Poll was-aun
   113) Bacán = a hook, a stake

   114) Sgolb - Given as a Pig-ring (made out of a horse nail) (?)

   
   115) Sgciob é - In Navan long ago, when the season for marbles would be over (about Patrick's Day) and the season for "tops" would be just in, the boy who had a number of marbles would throw them up for his comrades to catch. (He would say "Sgiob é"

   
   116) Braa-gaun - Explained as (Mrs Lowth(?)) "Some vessel"

   117) Seán - Explained as "the smallest of a clutch"
   118) Duncs - Explained as "a blow of a cow's tail"

   119) Grisgín = Giblets. A Pork Steak
   (I have been told by a Kerry woman (not a speaker of Irish) that the live' and lights etc of a goose etc can be roasted in the (?) and it is called a Grisgín)

   120) Adág = a handstack(?) (about size of a man)
   121) Spág - Explained as a very big foot"
   122) Bompaisín - "An old stocking"
   123) Gobán, muzzle for a calf or kid
   124) Striog, a drop - "I'm strigging the cow i.e. taking the last drop

   125) Fear na (n)gíosán = The man of the nostrils (?)
   126) Smalcaire = a wooden spoon

   127) Ceis, an improvised road made of twigs i.e. over a bog

   128) Coiseóg = a straw out of a beson

   129) Peillic(?) = a basket for holding potatoes (Donore)

   130) A dhaighean a bhearta - an Exclamation (Donore)

   

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      1. glossaries (~227)

   Languages

   Irish

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   Collector

   Micheál Ó Braonáin

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