Minceirtoiree
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Minceirtoiree (uncountable)
- (Ireland) Shelta, a language spoken by Irish Travellers.
- 2007, Colleen Anne Hynes, Strangers in the House: Twentieth Century Revisions of Irish Literary and Cultural Identity, Austin: University of Texas, page 147:
- McDonagh traces the origins of Travellers back to at least the twelfth century by referring to Traveller-like characters in Irish mythology and emphasizing connections between Traveller language, referred to as Shelta, Gammon, Cant or Minceirtoiree, which literally means "Traveller Talk," and Old Irish.