That’s Ireland

For reasons too silly to elaborate on, I was looking up early Irish references to the word eejit, and I came across a piece in the Irish Farmers Journal from 1966 which listed some colloquialisms of the day. Do you know what these mean?

• Monaghan - Gesha, Gosoon, Hait, Hallion, Mizzling
• Waterford - All the Care, Bit of a Consequence, Dallacker, Tipper, Who-but-Me
  
• Other Counties - Cleesawn, Eegit, Jildy, On the bed, Sharoose

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Monaghan

• Gesha – a girl
• Gosoon – a boy
• Hait – nothing (‘I didn’t hear a hait about it’)
• Hallion – a person of bad reputation
• Mizzling - raining

Waterford

• All the care – wife and children
• Bit of a consequence – a stuck-up person
• Dallacker (or Lack) – attractive young girl
• Tipper – not as bad as a hallion
• Who but me – a stuck-up person

Other Counties

• Cleesawn (Clare) – eejit
• Eegit [with a hard G] (Louth & Meath) – worse than an eejit
• Jildy (Cork) – dapper
• On the bed (Kilkenny) – in bed
• Sharoose (Clare) - Scepticism (’she had a sharoose on him’)