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banshee bean
sí fairy
woman |
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bard bard
poet
(of certain rank) |
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bog bog
soft |
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brogue bróg
shoe,
boot |
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bun (as in: “He has cute buns.”) bun
base,
bottom |
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caber (as in “tossing the caber') cabar
pole,
rafter |
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cairn carn
heap,
pile |
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carrageenan (thickener yogurt, creamers) carraigín
(toothpaste) Irish moss seaweed |
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clan clann
children,
lineage |
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claymore claíomh
mór great sword |
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crag creig
rocky
outcrop |
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Colleen cailín
girl |
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dig (Irish:An dtuigin tu? Do you understand?) tuig
understand
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galore go
leor plenty,
enough |
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gillie giolla
lad,
servant |
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glen gleann
valley |
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glom (as in “glom onto it”) glam
grab,
clutch |
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kibosh (“put the kibosh on that plan”) caidhp
báis cap of death |
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loch loch
lake |
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pet peata
tame
animal |
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phony (a gilt brass ring used by swindlers) fáinne
ring |
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poteen poitín
little
pot, moonshine |
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shamrock seamróg
shamrock |
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shanty seantigh
old
house |
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shebeen síbín
illicit
whiskey, speakeasy |
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shillelagh sail
éille cudgel
on a thong |
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slew slua
host,
multitude |
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slob slaba
mud,
slovenly person |
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smithereens smidiríní
little
bits |
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Tory tóraí
pursuer,
robber, bandit |
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whiskey uisce
(beatha) water (of life) |
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