School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 294
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- (continued from previous page)Thee-veen: A piece sewn on the upper of a boot.
Slug: To drink quickly
Pus-tra-cawn: One who is always whinging
Cray-thur: A person to be pitied
Gos-thur: Showing off. Bragging.
Skeow-ways: ag sceabd - diagonally
Slaw-mee: dirty
Bull-a-bawn: A fat, healthy chap
Kit-óg: Left hand or a left-handed person.
Bróg: Usually an old or heavy shoe
Boreen: A lane
Caubeen: An old hat
He puts no "seem" in it - suim - he pays no attention to it.
Thráneen: A blade of grass.
Kipeen: A bit of a stick
Keer-óg: A cockroach
Bogán: An egg laid without a shell
Cru-been: A pig's foot.
Banshee: A fairy woman who cries at certain deaths
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