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craic
noun
fun and entertainment, especially good conversation and company (often preceded by the): Come for the beer, lads, and stay for the craic!
More about craic
Craic is an Irish Gaelic spelling that represents the English pronunciation of English crack and was then taken back into English. English crack was apparently introduced from Scots into Irish English via Northern Ireland (Ulster) in the mid-20th century and was thereafter adopted into Irish Gaelic and Irish English. In Scottish English and in northern English dialect, crack has the sense 鈥渃hat, gossip,鈥� which may be the source of craic. Alternatively, craic may be a shortening of crack 鈥渨itty remark, wisecrack.鈥� Craic entered English in the 20th century.
how is craic used?
The public bar’s men only so I haven’t been in since we got back. … I’ve been missing the craic there.
The craic now was two doors down, where a bunch of lads were drinking Harp lager, eating fish and chips, and playing what sounded like Dinah Washington from a portable record player on a long lead outside Bobby Cameron’s house.
More about bunglesome
Bunglesome is an Americanism dating back to 1885鈥�90.
how is bunglesome used?
He is a little awkward, a little bunglesome in starting, but if you would–could exercise just a little patience for a few days–a day, I am sure he would please you.
To the traveler coming down from Florence to Rome in the summertime, the larger, more ancient city is bound to be a disappointment. It is bunglesome; nothing is orderly or planned; there is a tangle of electric wires and tramlines, a ceaseless clamor of traffic.
More about dekko
It is hard to believe that dekko, originally British army slang meaning “to look; a look,” is related to dragon. Dekko and dragon both ultimately come from the Proto-Indo-European root derk- (and its variant 诲峁沰-) 鈥渢o see, look.鈥� The form derk- forms Greek 诲茅谤办别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o look鈥�; the variant 诲峁沰- forms the Greek aorist (a kind of past tense) 茅诲谤补办辞苍 鈥淚 saw, looked,鈥� the aorist active participle 诲谤补办峁搉 鈥渓ooking,鈥� and the noun 诲谤谩办艒苍 鈥渟erpent, (huge) snake,鈥� also the name of a winged mythical monster, half reptilian, half mammalian, whose look could kill. In Sanskrit the root derk- forms the causative verb 诲补谤艣谩测补迟颈 鈥�(he) makes see.鈥� The Sanskrit root 诲补谤艣-, 诲峁浥�- develops into the Hindi root dekh- 鈥渢o see,鈥� which forms the infinitive 诲别办丑苍腻 鈥渢o see,鈥� and the imperative dekho 鈥渓ook, see.鈥� Dekko entered English in the late 19th century.
how is dekko used?
I’ll have a dekko at the furnace, and see what tools I need.
Oh yes, he’s here, replied Monteiro Rossi, but he doesn’t like to burst in just like that, he’s sent me on ahead to take a dekko.