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crios
Meaning or Explanation (EN): belt (on sheaf of corn), but a soldier's belt is beilt.
Tuilleadh -
cró críoch
Meaning or Explanation (EN): finishing touch (on work)
Usage (EN): an cró críoch a chur air.
Tuilleadh -
crosta
Meaning or Explanation (EN): bold, ill-mannered (of children)
Usage (EN): bó chrost', a "wicked" cow.
Tuilleadh -
cruach Pháraic
Meaning or Explanation (EN): broad-leaved plantain
Tuilleadh -
crúbach
Meaning or Explanation (GA): casúr crúbach a bhíos ag gabha.
Tuilleadh -
crupaim
Meaning or Explanation (EN): shrink
Usage (EN): crupaim is intransitive and is differentiated from crapaim above, which is transitive and means 'to contract, retract, withdraw': a' crupadh le aois, shrinkin with age; tá na nóiníní a' crupadh isteach leis a' driúchta, the daisies are closing up under the dew. The two participles are combined to form one of those 'twin' constructions which are so expressive and common in the dialect: crupthaí crapthaí, strangled and bent under weight of curach carrying it up on to the shingle beach
Tuilleadh -
cruthú
Meaning or Explanation (EN): act of arguing
Usage (EN): beirt a' cruthú ar a chéilí, two trying to put each other down in argument
Tuilleadh -
cruthú
Meaning or Explanation (EN): rich feeding quality (in land)
Usage (EN): tá árd-chruthú ann, there is great feeding in it; beidh a' cruthú sa bhfairsingeacht, there is always good return, good grazing, from a wide extensive scope of land
Tuilleadh -
cú
Meaning or Explanation (EN): greyhound
Tuilleadh -
cuaille bata
Meaning or Explanation (GA): ceann maith mór
Tuilleadh
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