Caubeen - noun.

As a hat person, I'm happy to share my love of hats and today I'm here to tell you all about a traditional Irish hat, the caubeen. More of a beret, the caubeen, the name apparently means "old hat" (according to Wikipedia) and also comes from cáibín, which means "little cape".


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Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2020

I know this word isn't exactly a new word that will be added to our vocabulary, but in honor of it being St. Patrick's Day, I thought it was fitting.


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sonsy [son-see]
adjective:
1 (Scottish literary) having an attractive and healthy appearance; strong and healthy; comely.
2 agreeable; good-natured
3 lucky

Examples:

Judging from her round, sonsy, rosy face, you never could have imagined her to have been mad. (Susanna Moodie, Life in the Clearings versus The Bush)

She listened to the talk of the ( Read more... )

sleiveen or sleeveen (SLEE-veen) - n., a dishonest person, a trickster ( Read more... )

yo·gi·bo·gey·box [ˌyȯ-gī-ˌˈbu-gē ˈbäks]:
origin: (1918) James Joyce; yogi= spiritual master bogey= imaginary monster + box= container

nounA bag of tricks, the devices used by a spiritualist ( Read more... )

can·on [ˈkænən]:
origin: (13th Century) Greek; kanōn= rule", Latin; canonicus= one living under a rule

noun
Dr. Who as personal jesus, stories falling outside the accepted episodic happenstance are to be properly labeled "alternate universe" or AU. "Headcanon" as concepts existing only in one's brain or desire. "Retcon" short for retroactive ( Read more... )

donn·y·brook [ˈdɒnɪbrʊk]:
origin: (1852) Domhnach Broc = "The Church of Saint Broc"

noun
This word is inspired by med_cat's word yesterday Taradiddle, except this one was a place in Ireland (now a suburb of Dublin).

Where, in the 12th century, a fair was held, which by the 18th century had devolved into a fifteen day extravaganza for boozy shenanigans. ( Read more... )

ban·janx·ed (ˈbændʒækst):
origin: 1930's, Anglo-Irish

adjective
1. Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded.
2. Tired, sleepy, cream crackered.

“Don't overdo or you'll feel knackered or banjaxed.”
- Out of Ireland (8): Nixers, Gurriers and Eejits


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ogham or ogam (AW-guhm, OH-'uhm) - n., an alphabetic script used for carved inscriptions of Old Irish, consisting of groups of straight lines intersecting a main long line or edge; any of the 20 characters from this script; an inscription using this script ( Read more... )

Co·do·lo·gy (kɒdˈɒlədʒɪ):
origin: (1847) Irish, "cod" = joke or sham -- popularized late 19th century by James Joyce

noun
1. Informal (colloq.), the mastery or act of bluffing/deception; lying taken to the form of a pseudo-science.
→ see also: cods·wal·lop


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