grace-card (Irish mid 19C) the six of hearts in cards
the boy with the boots (Anglo-Irish late 19C) the joker in the pack of cards
smut (Dublin) the remains of a nearly burnt-out candle
gudget (Donegal) a short thick-set man
clitherer (Hiberno-English, Galway) a woman with too much to say
crawthumper (Hiberno-English) an ostentatiously devout person
Adam Jacot de Boinod worked on the first series of BBC Television’s QI for Stephen Fry, and is the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World – Penguin Books, £10.
the boy with the boots (Anglo-Irish late 19C) the joker in the pack of cards
smut (Dublin) the remains of a nearly burnt-out candle
gudget (Donegal) a short thick-set man
clitherer (Hiberno-English, Galway) a woman with too much to say
crawthumper (Hiberno-English) an ostentatiously devout person
Adam Jacot de Boinod worked on the first series of BBC Television’s QI for Stephen Fry, and is the author of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World – Penguin Books, £10.
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