nabocklish

English

Alternative forms

• nabocklesh

Etymology

From Irish ná bac leis (don't bother with it).

Interjection

nabocklish

1. (Ireland) Don't worry about it; never mind.
   • 1862, Henry Robert Addison, Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate:

     Nabocklish. Run, Pat, and hurry the car. Sure we're to go round by the gaol to take Macarthy up.

   • 1879, Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Malley, the Irish dragoon:

     An it's little O'Malley cares for the law—bad luck to it; it's himself can laugh at judge and jury. Arrest him—nabocklish —catch a weasel asleep,” &c.

   • 1881, David Power Conyngham, The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage: A Tale of the Famine Years in Ireland:

     Deuce take them, they should come to spoil our fun ; but if they don't go back quicker than they come, nabocklish.

   • 2002, Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow, or, The homes of Tipperary, page 227:

     "Oh, but Bessy and I are old acquaintances," replied Hugh, laughing. " Nabocklish !" returned Mat.