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[dròbhaireachd]
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Faodaidh e a dhol a dhròbhaireachd. – He can go and whistle.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[pàigh]
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Cha phaigh drobhaireachd an draibhaireachd. No profit in the enterprise. [NOTES: ‘phaigh’ corrected to ‘phàigh’ and ‘drobhaireachd’ to ‘dròbhaireachd’.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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aran crì
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Notes: ‘gingerbread’ (sold esp. at Là na Dròbh). Cf. Irish arán cróich. Cf. Welsh bara croyw ‘unleavened bread’. ?? Not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dròbh
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nn nn ‘flock’: ~ do chaoraich
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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dròbh
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drove. Gillean a bhaile dol dhachaidh nan dròbhan. – humanly speaking.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dròbh
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[herd or any collection of cattle.]
Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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dròbh
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herd.
Origin: Geàrrloch [Gairloch]
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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dròbh (m), dròbhan (pl)
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herd or collection of cattle.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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dròbha
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grunn mór, mór.
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Caoraich / Sheep
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dròbhach na h-oidhche
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working secretly by night.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
