Headwords

bodhaire, Laoghaire

Description

Ag ligean air go bhfuil sé bodhar.

Corpus examples

• Dhe mhaise, bodhaire Uí Laoghaire ort!

Cross-references

• cluas bhodhar

Additional examples

• Dhe mhaise, bodhaire Uí Laoghaire ort! Muna baoghlach ataoi. Yeh, wisha, O'Leary's deafness on you! How much fear there is of you! (Lit., It is not in danger you are!). This bodhaire Uí Laoghaire ort is quite a common form of good-humoured imprecation. I do not know the origin of it.

• Tá bodhaire Uí Laoghaire air = Ná h-airigheann sé (ná leogfadh sé air go n-aireochadh sé) ach an rud is maith leis – go leogann sé air bheith bodhar.

• 1. (a) Deafness. Bodhaire Uí Laoire, feigned deafness.

• deafness; mental confusion; stunning noise; bodhaire Uí Laoghaire ort, is a common imprecation.

• Bodhaire Uí Laoire nó Bodhaire Mhic Mathúna. Ag ligean air a bhíonn a leithéid de bhodhrán.

• Bodhaire Uí Laoghaire a bhíonn air. bíonn sé ag leigint air a bheith bodhar, acht níl sé bodhar dáiríribh. Bodhaire bréige iseadh í. Deirtear leis, bodhaire Mhic Mhathamhna.

• Bodhaire Uí Laoghaire: ag ligint ort go bhfuil tú bodhar.