10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OANSHAGH»
Discover the use of
oanshagh in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
oanshagh and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English
1996, 120); a silly person; a girl who goes astray < Ir. 'She's a confirmed oinseach
' (she is foolish beyond redemption) (SOM, Kerry); 'Look at that poor oanshagh -
she'll never learn!' (KG, Kerry). Kickham. Knocknagow, 53: "'aRra whist, Phil,' ...
Terence Patrick Dolan, 2006
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English and Celtic in Contact
... abuse or restricted to rural life, such as ommadhawn 'fool' (< Ir. amadán),
oanshagh '(female) fool' (< Ir. óinseach), bosthoon 'clown' (< Ir. bastún), soogawn
'hay rope' (< Ir. súgán), gowlogue 'forked stick' (< 212 English and Celtic in
Contact.
Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Heli Paulasto, 2008
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Language in the British Isles
A substantial number of such words are terms of abuse: ommadhawn 'fool' (Irish
amadan); oanshagh '(female) fool' (Irish dinseach); bosthoon 'clown' (Irish bastitn
); sleeveen 'sly fellow' (Irish slibhin); spalpeen 'rascal' (Irish spailpin 'seasonal ...
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More Englishes: New Studies in Varieties of English, 1988-1994
... cooramagh 'careful', flahool(agh) 'generous', girsha 'girl', grumagh 'gloomy',
keeroge 'beetle', kippeen 'stick', mearing 'boundary', oanshagh 'female fool',
paddereen 'rosary',praskeen 'apron', rawmaish 'nonsense', scullogue 'small
farmer', ...
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Dictionary of Newfoundland English
All 'owning' had to be over by noon; ridicule was your lot if you went past that
deadline. ownshook n also eunchuck, oanshick, onshook, oonchook, oonshik,
owenshook. Cp DINNEEN 6m- seach 'a fool, esp a female fool'; JOYCE
oanshagh 'a ...
George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, 1990
... savaging lallygag graylags Taganrog gangstas gangways Pago Pago
shanghai Huang Hai Hwang Hai oanshagh Huang Hua hangnail gharials
anhingas paganish gymkhana thangkas anaglyph Monaghan hogmanay
mahogany Grantham ...
Justin Crozier, Cormac McKeown, 2006
Moira wouldn't have put it past some bold oanshagh to work her wiles on a man
like this Josiah Chee. No doubt in the mining camps there were plenty of loose
women who made their living by the lace of their petticoats. With most of the town
...
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The Language of Kilkenny: Lexicon, Semantics, Structures
Cf. Carrigan 1905, I, 26 (Introd.); Graves and Prim 1857:175; O 'Kelly 1969:152-
53.] OILING (oIbn) n. Hardship or physical abuse; a gruelling: / got an awful oilin' (
TOK). [S.a. DUISEACHT] OINSEACH (u:ns'ak) n. A-I OANSHAGH, OWNSHUCK.
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English As We Speak It in Ireland
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition.
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Legends of the lakes: or, sayings and doings at Killarney : ...
298): "Oanshagh; a female fool, corresponding with omadaun, a male fool. Irish
dinseach, same sound and meaning: from 6n, a fool, and seach, [t]he feminine
termination." Page 16. No use in talking: "A common Irish expression interjected ...
Thomas Crofton Croker, Neil C. Hultin, Warren U. Ober, 2008
