messages
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]messages
Noun
[edit]messages pl (plural only)
- (Ireland, Scotland and Northern England) Shopping, groceries, errands.
- 1983, Raymond McClean, The road to Bloody Sunday, page 119:
- I was going up the town to buy some messages.
- 1987, Pulpsmith, volume 6, page 275:
- A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. […] "
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 9:
- A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
Usage notes
[edit]- Often used in the phrase do the messages.
Verb
[edit]messages
- third-person singular simple present indicative of message
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]messages m
Scots
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[edit]messages
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