liúdramán

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare liúdaí (“idler, shirker, good-for-nothing person; leering person; silly-looking person, lout”).

Noun

liúdramán m (genitive singular liúdramáin, nominative plural liúdramáin)

1. lanky, lazy person
2. loafer

Declension

Declension of liúdramán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative liúdramán liúdramáin Vocative a liúdramáin a liúdramána Genitive liúdramáin liúdramán Dative liúdramán liúdramáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an liúdramán na liúdramáin Genitive an liúdramáin na liúdramán Dative leis an liúdramán don liúdramán leis na liúdramáin

Derived terms

• liúdramántacht f (“loafing”)

Descendants

• → English: loodheramaun

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “liúdramán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, Terence Patrick Dolan, Gill & Macmillan (2004), p. 141. →ISBN.
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “liúdramán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “liúdramán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024