earnough
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Irish earráideach. The -n- was misspelled.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
earnough
Noun[edit]
earnough
- A comical, droll, humorous person.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- A gooude earnough.
- A droll man.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 37