This is the penultimate in our long-running series of an alphabet of words peculiar to, or used in a specific meaning in South Armagh. We have had few reactions, hostile or supportive, and few additions or corrections. Please correct this!
Dialect ‘U’
Unbeknownst : unknown
to
Unchancy : unlucky,
‘an unchancy one, that boyo’
Unused : not
accustomed to
Up : many
uses, ‘up in himself’, vain
‘well
set up man’, well-built
‘well
set up concern’, flourishing
‘well
set up in his story’, perfect
Up with : an incline; ‘it’s a sharp wee up with
to your place’
Upcome : outcome,
the ultimate end
Upcast : cast up, make spurious
allegations; ‘she’s always upcasting things, that one’
Upon : in, ‘I’ll have a wee drap
‘o water upon me whiskey’
Upsetting: irritating, causing upset, ‘an
upsetting person’
Unrid : rid, ‘I’ll soon unrid ye of
her’
Uptake : of sharp comprehension, ‘he’s
quick in the uptake’
Underhand : mean, cunning
Underhand smile : one that bodes ill towards
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