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The second more direct origin of the current usage comes from 1914 when James Joyce used the Irish slang gas to describe joking or frivolity. During the "Jazz Age," the expression was picked up by ...
O.Ir. clocc meaning "bell"; into Old High German as glocka, klocka [15] (whence Modern German Glocke) and back into English via Flemish; [16] cf also Welsh cloch but the giving language is Old Irish via the hand-bells used by early Irish missionaries. [15] [17] colleen (from cailín meaning "young woman") a girl (usually referring to an Irish ...
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with one of these short, funny or traditional Irish sayings. Use these expressions for Instagram or send to friends and family. 50 Irish sayings guaranteed to make you ...
This is an old Irish tribal name, Orbhraighe. pampootie – From pampúta, a kind of shoe with good grip worn by men in the Aran Islands. phoney – (probably from the English fawney meaning "gilt brass ring used by swindlers", which is from Irish fáinne meaning "ring") fake. pinkeen – From pincín, a minnow or an insignificant person.
Sláinte, Banjaxed, Stall the ball? Anyone can wear green on Saint Patrick's Day, but do you know what these Irish words mean and how to say them?
Mary Taylor and Frank Chanfrau as a Bowery g'hal and b'hoy in A Glance at New York.. B'hoy and g'hal (meant to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy and gal, respectively) [1] were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the American Civil War.
During the show on Friday, June 28, Saunders yelled out, "póg mo thóin," an Irish phrase that is slang for "kiss my arse"—something that is definitely not in the original lyrics of "We Are ...