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It's Valentine's Day, so I decided to write a wee love...hmm, maybe 'lust' story and teach you some new Hiberno English (and Irish) words. The glossary is at the bottom. Maybe read it first. Alternatively, read the story, see what you can guess from context, then read the glossary.
One day a young liobar named Lucy went out to find somewhere to wash her lópíní. As she neared an inis, Lucy heard an unmerciful líu of eascaines coming from the field. In it she saw a bromach at the galamaisíocht, naked, with not a note of náire about him. She watched him for a while, hiding herself behind the gallán a few paces adin a the meadow. After a while, she began to feel a nádúr for him. He oozed saoirse, something she deeply desired.
Lucy had a place in it, a sort of naavo that she'd never let on to anyone about. 'Twas a fine place for a póg and a bit of pocáil. In a flash, she was as chicers as the fella, twirling herself around the field towards him.
When he caught sight of her, he returned her bauld smile. Soon, the two were ceílí-ing round the inis until they both got a dreadful meadhrán. Giving in to it, they dropped down into Lucy's naavo and weren't seen by another again until they turned up in a sheugh a few miles out of town, nevermore to go a gallivanting in the fields.
Glossary:
- Liobar: an untidy woman.
- Lópín: a dirty stocking.
- Inis: A water-meadow
- Líu: a shout.
- Eascaines: curses.
- In it: there.
- Bromach: a strong, rough man.
- Galamaisíocht: showing off.
- Náire: shame.
- Gallán: standing stone (large stones in fields in Ireland, often said to be connected to the faery folk.
- Adin a: in.
- Nádúr: affection.
- Saoirse: freedom.
- Naavo: secret hiding-place.
- Let on to: reveal.
- Póg: a kiss.
- Pocáil: searching / poking.
- Chicers: naked (from Shelta).
- Fella: a male.
- Bauld: cheeky.
- Céilí-ing: dancing. (Taken from the word ‘céilí,’ a traditional gathering for dance and fun.
- Meadhrán: dizziness.
- Sheugh: a ditch filled with slow or stagnant water / a drain / an open gutter.
- Gallivanting: going to lots of places. Often connected with being out and about on the town.
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