segotia n.— «Me segotia, or me oul’ segotia are phrases as Dublin as they come.…Mr. Paddy O’Neill…was right when he glossed it as a Dublin Fusilier’s word. Me segotia, Mr. O’Neill claimed, was originally said to children only, which is very...
lattenomics n.— «Last month Paris became the latest city to feature on what the Economist dubs its “lattenomics” scale, which shows whether currencies are at their “correct” level against the dollar by comparing the cost of a Starbucks tall latte...
GUBU adj.— «It has been an annus horribilis for the Prime Minister. The combination of an unpopular war in Iraq, which split his cabinet and his party, and the GUBU nature of the David Kelly affair, not to mention the Hutton Inquiry exposures, have...
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adj.— «Irish people have a confused, contradictory, even GUBU attitude to property.» —“Nation of property addicts who just want more and more” by John Mulcahy Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland) July 17, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
GUBU adj.— «My youth was spent in an English hospital, receiving treatment for scoliosis, which also caused spinal curvature. So we were both, as far as Haughey hard-liners were concerned, twisted. But to suggest this was a voluntary effort on my...
GUBU adj.— «In the GUBU days of Fianna Fail, however the company was called upon once more and Mr Savage subsequently made contact with Albert Reynolds and Padraig Flynn.» —“Reynolds sends the message by Carr” by Maol Muire Tynan Irish...