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VOCABULARY AND INDEX.
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Chuff: full.—'I'm chuffey after my dinner.' (MacCall: Wexford.)
Clabber, clobber, or clawber; mud: thick milk. See Bonnyclabber.
Clamp; a small rick of turf, built up regularly. (All through Ireland.)
Clamper; a dispute, a wrangle. (Munster.) Irish clampar, same meaning.
Clarsha; a lazy woman. (Morris: South Monaghan.)
Clart; an untidy dirty woman, especially in preparing food. (Simmons: Armagh.)
Clash, to carry tales: Clashbag, a tale-bearer. (Simmons: Armagh.)
Classy; a drain running through a byre or stable-yard. (Morris: South Monaghan.) Irish clais, a trench, with the diminutive y added.
Clat; a slovenly untidy person; dirt, clay: 'wash the clat off your hands': clatty; slovenly, untidy—(Ulster): called clotty in Kildare;—a slattern.
Clatch; a brood of chickens. (Ulster.) See Clutch.
Cleean [2-syll.]; a relation by marriage—such as a father-in-law. Two persons so related are cleeans. Irish cliamhan, same sound and meaning.
Cleever; one who deals in poultry; because he carries them in a cleeve or large wicker basket. (Morris: South Monaghan.) Irish cliabh [cleeve], a basket.
Cleevaun; a cradle: also a crib or cage for catching birds. The diminutive of Irish cliabh or cleeve, a wicker basket.
Clegg; a horsefly. (Ulster and Carlow.)
Clehalpeen; a shillelah or cudgel with a knob at the end. (South.) From Irish cleath, a wattle, and ailpin dim. of alp, a knob.
