Examples: "Will you quit your gabbing and get on with the job!"
"He has the gift of the geab - he must have kissed the Blarney Stone."

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aura

Some people walk into a room and the vibe files a noise complaint. Others just show up and make you wonder how they got promoted to… ✨

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It's time for another #WordWednesday! If you've ever had cheap bar wine, then you *know* this slang is a perfect descriptor. Thoughts? Shall we bring it back?

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is directly based on the Irish conjunction 'Ó', from (the time when), since: "Ó tháinig mé anseo", from (the time) I came here, etc. "From ever I came to London I wanted to go home."

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What's the origin of the term "skinny-ma-link", to refer to a skinny person, & who's "Skinny-ma-link The Barber"? Is that character from an old song, a radio programme, a TV show, or what?

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Examples: "Turn on the heating, I’m absolutely foundered!"
"The old lady said she was always foundered with the cold in the winter."

'Founder' can also mean to have a heavy cold. "You'll catch a founder. Ten times around the beacon." (O'Neill, "At Swim")

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ttk

Some games give you time to process a mistake. Others treat the loading screen as a post-match interview 🎮 And the difference comes down to…

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Some reactions are less a sentence and more a tiny keyboard malfunction. Then the clip hits that one moment and the comments all start… 🤯 …

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I ranted about hating on joy. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/your-cringe-hate-is-dead/ #Slang #Rant #Joy

Would you know what these words mean on social media? Learning something new everyday for me!

Quiz on #OnlyConnect

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Def Leppard #Setlist for a show in
Hannover GERMANY 🇩🇪 30 Years Ago on this day in 1996

01 - Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
02 - Action
03 - Foolin'...

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Somerville and Ross, "Some experiences of an Irish RM": "'Twas when they went up on th' excursion last month for to have their teeth pulled."
Synge, "Playboy of the Western World": "Mahon: Faith, I'm thinking I'll go walking for to view the race."

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Ever send a joke and immediately prepare a courtroom defense? Somewhere online, two characters are quietly doing overtime 😅…

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Here in USA, people are unable to distinguish fantasy fiction Fox News storytelling from real world. We can not distinguish Reddit memes from real world. Fiction fantasy addictions rule USA. Generative fiction

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g.o.a.t

Some praise comes with a crown; this one took a suspicious detour through the petting zoo 🐐—and then…

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1924 North. Whig (23 Jan.):
"Children will flooster about their mother."
1914 I. Bell Country Clash 39:
"I saw auld Leeb Crum an' Aaron Jamfray baith clappin' doon intil their seats wi' a great flister on the Sabbath afore the precentor could get it [Amen] oot."

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peak

When a fandom says it, the group chat’s standards have officially become impossible to meet. The scene in question? Let’s just say the bar called in sick 🎬…

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Fla'ed out

(Also: flahed out)

A phrase, deriving from the verb 'to fla', meaning to be totally exhausted, especially from dissipation.

L. McInerney, "Blood Miracles": ‘You’re not up for the party so.’ ‘I’m flahed out from partying’.

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