We will soon resume our Dictionary of Fews Dialect.  First, here is a small extracted selection to illustrate how so many of these words came to us from the ancient Gaelic language.

Amadan, amadan  fool
Avic,  a mhic  son [‘old pal’]
Areesh, arís   again
Bucked, bocht   tired out
Bledder, bladant  flattery, soft talk
Battering, batarreacht  a beating
Boon,  buan   a crowd of workers
Bothered, bodhar  hard of hearing
Banshee, bean sidhe  literally ‘fairy woman’
Bru,  bruach  brow, edge: bank – of hole.
Barge , bairseach  a scolding woman
Bonnack, bonnóg araín cake of home-made bread
Agin,  I gcionn  till the end of
Brash,  brais   a turn: ‘a brash at churning’
Footering, ag útamaíl  messing about
Bow-legged bórach
Backan, bacán   a door-hinge
Brogues, bróga   boots, shoe type
Bunty,  bunta   short-tailed
Casted, céasta   very tired
Clabber, clabar   dirt
Slabber, clabaire  foolish, talkative person
Carron, carn [cairn]  heap
Car,  cár   sneering mouth
Cludog, cludóg  a hiding place for eggs
Cap,  ceap   to stop; put a stopper in
Ciotóg , ciotóg   or ‘kitter’, left-handed
Cráter , créatur  a poor, sick person
Crank , crangaid  a bitter, irritable person
Cockles ,cockall  warm the ‘cockles’ of the heart
Cabah,  cabach  a shrewd person
Craic,  craic   pleasant conversation
Ciff , coif   sport, fun
Crubs,  crúba   pigs’ feet
Crig,  cnag, cniog  stub, as in one’s toe
Caley , céilí   a visit
Clout,  clabhta  a blow, thump
A Card, céardaí  a trickster
Gerning, ag gearán  complaining
Grus,  gnuís   a sour face
Gersa,  girrseach  girl
Gason,  gasúr   boy
Giostra , giostaire  as in ‘a gabby gistra’, talkative child
Giblets, giobalach  torn clothes
Gulpan, gilpan   a greedy person
Gunc,  geanc   to snub; a snub nose
Greesa, gríosach  ashes of turf
Gibberish, gibirih   foolish talk
Langle , laincis   the tying of a goat
A Lacing, léasadh  a beating
A Hallion, ailleán   a big, rough person
A Hesp, easpan  a scolding old woman
Blamas, plamás  coaxing talk
Prackas, prácás  a mess
Moily,  maol   hornless cow
Mess,  meas   esteem, regard; ‘he’s no mess o’ money’
Roughness, rachmas  plenty: a ‘roughness’ of money
Bucky,  mucoír  rose hip briar
Pus,  pus   sulky face
Póg , mo hone   ‘kiss my ass’
Puck , poc   a blow of a stick
Stulk,  staile   a stubborn person
Sciggling, scigil   foolish laughter
Skilly-eyed, fíor shuíleach eyes not level in the head
Skiff , cioth   a shower of rain
Skelp,  scealp   a blow
Smidereens, smideríní  little pieces
Kibosh, caidp baís  the cap of death; finish
Spree,  sprasí   fun
Twig , tuig   to catch on, to understand
Twang, teanga  ‘tongue’ and so, a way of speaking
Whistt , eíst   listen, or ‘shut up’
Whillabulo, ruílle buille  ructions, row, confusion
Teeming, ag taomadh  teeming rain, hard fall of rain

And this is just a start! 

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