Old irish slang
[DOC File]THE LATEST YOUTH SLANG –extracts from the Archive
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The slang of pre-teens, teenagers, students and young adults uses all the techniques of the world’s most influential language in a riot of creative exuberance. Their codes are used to create in-groups and to keep out the too-old and the terminally uncool, but also just to celebrate being young, gifted - and slack.
[DOC File]Naval Terms & Phraseology
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4. An Old Fogey "FOGY" is an old term for a longevity pay increase. Believed derived from the paymaster's log entry: 'For On Going Years', or the initials: F.O.G.Y. It has become an insulting term for anyone with old fashioned notions or beliefs. 5. Avast Contraction of two French words, 'Haud Vast', meaning to 'hold fast'.
[DOCX File]Glossary of police slang
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Paddy Wagon: A slang term for a police wagon used to transport prisoners. Derives from the slang term for people of Irish descent. At the time that this expression was coined in the early 20th century in New York, the majority of the police officers were of Irish descent.
[DOC File]In America
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A struggling Irish immigrant and aspiring actor who settles in . ... smart and mature 12 year old . daughter who is the narrator of the movie, and who spends much of ... a ÒholeÓ is common slang for an apartment that is in poor condition. ÒFineÓ is widely used for good or satisfactory, and to Òdo upÓ an apartment is to improve it with new ...
[DOC File]Change These Slang Clichés into Better Expressions:
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old college try. old meets new . older and wiser . older than dirt. older than Methuselah. on the bandwagon . on the nose . on the wagon . on thin ice. one born every minute . one foot in the grave . one in a million . only game in town . only to be met . out of pocket. out of the frying pan. out on a limb ---P-Q---p's and q's . pain and ...
[DOC File]Language Change Exercise 1: Origins of Names
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Irish legends tell of his tragic desire for Deirdre. Dayna: From a surname which originally belonged to a person who was Danish. Or from Bogdan(a), which means "gift from God" from the Slavic elements bog "god" and dan "gift". Nathan: Means "giver" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of a prophet and also a son of King David.
[DOCX File]Higher – Reading for Understandin Analysis and Evaluation
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*slang / colloquialisms *jargon *dialect *lists/examples. ... our brain’s ability to revisit old events with pleasure or nostalgia. ... I’ve already given an Irish setter a blow-dry. Human spas have never had much appeal for me. Spend £50 on an aromatherapy massage? I’d rather roll …
[DOCX File]SCHOOLKIDS’ SLANG FROM THE UK
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One term that’s widely used around the UK is rarely if ever heard in the London area, but belongs to a 300 year-old tradition. Feen, also spelled fein, has been borrowed from the slang of Travellers, the argot formerly used by Tinkers and known as Shelta, itself deriving mainly from Irish Gaelic.
[DOC File]IMPORTANT RARE BOOK AUCTION
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Dec 11, 2011 · irish glass + silver books + stained glass + sculpture dublin. the fachist ideology of w.b. yeats. songs of the gael + other song books. the irish press, irish dialects + an luachra geal. the dragon beards versus the blue prints. a tribute to the members and staff of the confederation of irish industry, who died in the london air crash 18th ...
[DOCX File]A Semester in the Land of Green Andrew Callens
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non-Irish student working on the production. I learned some new Irish slang along the way and made some lifelong connections with the 12 other people involved. The whole process felt familiar on some level because I was still working in a theater but still different because of a bunch of tiny things that the Irish did differently.
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