chourch-hey
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Yola[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English church-hay, equivalent to chourch + hey.
Noun[edit]
chourch-hey
- churchyard
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
- Th' valler w'speen here, th' lass ee chourch-hey.
- The more we spend here, the less in the churchyard.
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 84