A Conversation for (old version) The Even Deeper Meaning of Liff

Don't forget Irish placenames

Post 1

Woodpigeon

From the country that gave legitimate Lifficate words like Blarney, Limerick and Donnybrook to the English Language, here are a few other placenames just crying out for proper recognition :-

Kilmacow, Ballinspittle, Nobber, Termonfeckin, Twomileborris, Feakle, Ballydehob, Doolin, Dodder, Belgooley, Muckross, Maam Cross, Boggeragh, Oola, Priesthaggard, Mooncoin, Stoompa.


Don't forget Irish placenames

Post 2

wingpig

Dodder is already a real word and Twomileborris was in the original Liff books. Any ideas for the new meanings?


Don't forget Irish placenames

Post 3

Fluke

Stoompa: Of a child, to have a tantrum in an embarrassingly public place so that its parents give in and get it what it wants just to shut it up.
Feakle: Of teenage boys, the ability to find sexual undertones to absolutely anything.


Don't forget Irish placenames

Post 4

wingpig

Termonfeckin' (ptcpl vb): To spend so long trying to convert a profanity into something acceptable for refined persons that you lose the thread of what you were saying.
Priesthaggard (adj): The strange mental exhaustion experienced after a day in the company of clergy and elderly churchgoers resultant from termonfeckin' (qv) at least once every thirty seconds.


Oola (n)

Post 5

Woodpigeon

An irreverent (and rather Feaklish) thought inexplicably generated when in the company of elderly Catholic clergy that leads along the lines of "I wonder if they ever had ...?"


Nobber

Post 6

Fluke

Nobber sounds like something you'd end up termonfeckin'.


Ballinspittle

Post 7

Fluke

Ballinspittle: That little bit of water you can feel sloshing around in your ear after swimming.


Ballinspittle

Post 8

Dinsdale Piranha

Clonakilty (adj.)

Desciptive of the attitude of your head whilst whacking yourself with the heel of your hand in an attempt to get rid of Ballinspittle (qv)


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