skelpearès
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with English skelper (“whopper”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]skelpearès
- big pigs
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
- At skelpearès an slaugheardhès mye leeigh aar oer vill.
- That the
piglingsand pigs may laugh their overfill.
- That the
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 68