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  1. mór le radh
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): great
    Usage (EN): Ní mór le rádh é. = He is no great things. = not up to much. Ní mór le rádh é mar fheirmeoir. = He is no great things as a farmer.
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  2. mór le radh
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): famous, important
    Usage (EN): Is mór le rádh é mar dhochtúir. = He is a famous doctor. Ba mhór le rádh é mar ghaiscidheac. = He was a famous champion.
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  3. mór-chroidheach
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): big hearted, bountiful, generous, liberal
    Usage (EN): Bean mhór-chroidheach b'eadh Máir = Máire was a big hearted woman.
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  4. mór-chroidheach
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): big-hearted
    Usage (EN): Mór-chroidheach. = big-hearted, generous. Ní fuirist duine chomh mór-croideach léithe a (ד) fhághailt. = It would be hard to find a person as big-hearted as she is. "Máire an chroidhe mhóir." = deirtí le bean é.
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  5. mór-chúis
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): Pomp,display of "bigness"
    Usage (EN): Mór-chúis an t-saoghail. = The pomp of the world.
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  6. mór-chúis
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): "Somebody", self importance
    Usage (EN): Thá cuid mhór mor-chúise ag gabhailt leis. = He thinks he is somebody. Bíonn sé d'iarradh fear "mór" a dheanadh de fhéin le mór-chúis agus mustar. = Trying to make himself out to be somebody.
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  7. mór-chúis
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): pride, pomp
    Usage (EN): Thá sí bréan le mór-chúis. = She is stink with pride. Mór-chúis, agus gan dada taobh thiar d = Pride and nothing behind it. = .i. putting on a show of pride = Empty pride
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  8. mór-chúis
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): pride, pomp
    Usage (EN): Thá sí bréan le mór-chúis. = She is stink with pride Thá mór-chúis tar teora innte i dtaobh a mhac a bheith n-a shagart. = She has boundless pride on account of her son being a priest. Thá an oiread mór-chúise inte agus a beadh inte dá mb'í bainrioghain Shasana í. = She is as proud as if she were the Queen of England.
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  9. mór-chúiseach
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): proud
    Usage (EN): Thá sé mórchúiseach as a mhach a bheith 'n a shagart. = He is proud of his son being a priest. Thá mé mór-chúiseach asat. = Im proud of you.
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  10. mór-chúiseach
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): pompous, "big"
    Usage (EN): Fear mór chúiseach iseadh é. = He is a pompous man. = "big in himself". Thá sí taidhbhseach mór chúiseach. = She is vain and pompous.
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