School: Knocktemple (B.)

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1. Words and Expressions Used Locally (continued)

   

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   Smaurth - silence stopping a scolding match

   
   Porthon - a scraw or piece of bog with grass or rushes attached

   Polthoge - an untidy bandage or dressing on a wound
   Mockswelk - a kind of knave

   Mareing - like a finger of a glove, made from calico for a sore finger

   Rucky - spots on face

   Pinkeen or Corabawn
   diminutive fish foundin bog-holes

   Spalpeen / Squilpeen
   a potato digger from the west

   Skhelpeen - a young bream

   Fodheroge
   the first position in which mud-turf is put, one sod lying on bank and two leaning on it

   Moonoge
   a mixture of cows' urine and manure, plants are dipped before being planted.

   Muckeries - the red berries of the wild rose

   Shamshogs
   little plants, larger than shamrocks, taste sweetly

   Boulkeen - the hitting part of the flail

   Meggileen
   a strip of skin holding the two parts of the flail together

   Cregera-buee
   some kind of wizard
   "What will we do says O, says O.
   What will we do says Andy Roe,
   What will we do says brother and Three
   We'll throw him in the 'Say' says The Cregera-buee"

   Losid
   a shallow box with lid and four legs in which bread etc was kept from one meal until wanted for next; was an article of furniture in the kitchen

   Braddha - an animal fond of trespassing

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