10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EEJIT»
Discover the use of
eejit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
eejit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The House of the Scorpion
Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people.
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Irish English as Represented in Film
CD s 1 • c a a ate for church! s than your drAker »jit, ya! iplete eejit of mese im the
rAaroAd i Cing, you big eejit ng and paying tax< ie two... fuckin' eeji oks of it tin' at
? Sean Cloney, ya eejit, we're 5 Se was an eejit You've a mouth on you worse ...
I'd have to walk up the seven flights of stairs to EEJIT. Again. And work in stale
smoke. Again. With How-weird. And possibly getting konked on the noggin.
Again. I wondered which was worse. I walked over to the vacant reception desk,
and let ...
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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English
abbreviation for '(home) exercise' (homework). 'Have you your eccer done yet?' (
KD, Dublin). Doyle, The Van, 49: "I'll check their eccers every nigh', don't worry."
eejit /'i:dsat/ n., a silly person < E idiot, but less pejorative than SE 'idiot' /'idiat/.
Terence Patrick Dolan, 2004
He waved his hand at an eejit stirring soup. “They haven't the faintest idea of
hygiene.” “I tell them to wash their hands,” Celia said. “Look at this!” Major Beltran
grabbed the soup stirrer's hand and held it out for her to inspect. The eejit did a
little ...
I told him I'm marrying a thoroughbred eejit. After dinner we went to an Irish bar
with old railroad motifs. The bartender was a watery-eyed young man with a long
nose and an ever-narrowing face that gave him the look of some lesser Dick ...
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
edge. |. eejit. edge noun i in gambling, a statistical advantage, usually expressed
as a percentage us • By the time the tax people take their bite off the top you have
a 20 perecent "Edge" working against you —Mario Puzo, inside Las vegas, p.
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Is That Fat Foreigner Rich?: Murphy Goes to China
The. Eejit. For the first seven or eight months, I got on reasonably well with the
Swiss general manager at the Shangri-La. The general managers in China wield
tremendous power over their expatriate staff, not quite executing floggings and ...
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The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, ...
Bloody eejit. —Yes. I was ahle to tell when my da was going to call someone a
hloody eejit; his chair creaked. It was always a man and he was always saying
something to an interviewer. — Who asked him? The interviewer had asked him
hut ...
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People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich’in ...
Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich'in Elders/Googwandak Nakhwach'ànjòo Van Tat
Gwich'in Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, Shirleen Smith. Y yellow jidii tsoo yarn
naazhuk yesterday k'ehdai' year (last) k'eejit khaii younger brother, my shichaa
year ...
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, Shirleen Smith, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EEJIT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
eejit is used in the context of the following news items.
Bord Gáis left 'primed bomb' in man's house
If some — and I don't mind using the word — eejit decided to break the pipe away I believe it could be anticipated by the defendant. They leave ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
Video: Dublin club footballer has some very strange dietary …
Pauly Mangan of St. Jude's was in a bad way during a club match last weekend - the eejit had forgotten to have his breakfast. A top of the table clash against ... «JOE, Jul 15»
Euan McLean: Give Rory McIlroy a break.. he was doing nothing …
Most of the laddish lack of sympathy can't be printed here but let's refine it to say there were plenty of people queuing up to call him an eejit ... «Scottish Daily Record, Jul 15»
Vine: A sulky Nick Kyrgios was acting the eejit at Wimbeldon today
Right now, Australian Nick Kyrgios is playing Richard Gasquet in the fourth round of Wimbledon. After losing the first set 5-7, Kyrgios proceeded ... «JOE, Jul 15»
Paul Kimmage: Meet Sam Bennett, the man who could be Ireland's …
But some trainee had put the bandage on too tight and got a bollicking from the doctor: 'You fucking eejit!'" It was months before he was right ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
Sorry, but we need to talk about Enda
When the Taoiseach behaves oddly, we say, Ah, sure, it's just Enda, and we all know he's a nice man but a bit of an eejit. We expect nothing ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
It's been a long journey from a shed in Galway to the MGM Grand for …
“I know what this game is about and I'm not a fucking eejit; I'm not staying in it to get thumped around by anybody. “When that time does come, ... «The42, Jul 15»
Where have all the swimmers (and swimming places) gone?
I'd just learned to float on my back during a recent trip to the seaside, and was happily repeating the exercise when some eejit roared from the ... «A Kilcullen Diary, Jul 15»
Murder, Rape and Incest: 7 Comic Book Moments that we'll never …
I was an eejit. I really enjoyed this film when watching it again recently. There is always a danger with action films where there has to be huge ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
Kingdom Hearts 3: These Are the Worst Disney Worlds & Characters …
But if this eejit comes anywhere near the game, Square Enix will have some serious explaining to do. Can you imagine if he was your guide ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
