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    #32
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    paddysdream wrote: »
    Now,now ,now,everyone knows its a sprong that has 4 grains whilst the thing with 2 grains is a pitchfork.
    There is a sprong, a beet sprong and a potato sprong.
    Only implement I don't know what the correct name for is the 3 grained thing but then again never had one here.
    A pike is the thing the Boys of Wexford pulled from the thatch in the Summer of 1798.
    A grape is a fruit wine is made from.

    Please god no - lets not get into that discussion again :pac:


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    #33
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,507 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    NcdJd wrote: »
    Guggy egg, haven't heard that word in years !!

    Gosh my granny would use that term all the time when we were babogs


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    #34
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    _Brian wrote: »
    Gosh my granny would use that term all the time when we were babogs

    I like that- a babog with a guggy egg :)


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    #35
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Not a word but a phrase.

    Over Grounds - Spuds left behind after a harvester has passed over them. I was speaking to a neighbour who was picking some of the over grounds this evening in a field just cleared.


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