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Gloomy: Gruama dubhach

I was always told that an fear dubh was the devil and I have seen it written in this context as well.

fear dubh or bean dhubh can also be used to describe a reclusive/ excessively quite person.

Dearg when added as a prefix to a word can mean very: ar dhearg/ dheirg- mheisce: to be absolutely langers/ pissed.

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Please wait for corrections/ more input from other forum members before acting on advice

It can't be a coincidence that we often refer to vegetables in English as 'greens' and that the Irish for vegetables is 'glasraí' is it?

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Yeah. Dearg-bhitse "absolute bitch" came up just the other day.


I think that one is pretty universal, Saoirse. Even the Japanese refer to them as 青物 "green things" (although 青 can also mean "blue").

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

ó dhubh go dubh - from dawn till dusk

an dubh a chur ina gheal/bhán ar dhuine "to bamboozle someone" "to convince someone that black is white"

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Anyone know how old this term is? Would it have been used in, say, the 1960s?

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I'm very much a beginner learner. Don't hesitate to correct me, as long as you explain why. This is how I learn best!

Are there expressions in Irish similar to these English ones?

Green with envy
White as a ghost
Yellow belly - coward
Blue with cold
Feeling blue - depressed
Black as night
The pot calling the kettle black
Black as the fire back
He has a green thumb

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Please feel free to correct any and all mistakes in spelling, grammar etc.
I am very much a beginner and need all the help I can get.

An FearGaelach would have to make two more posts to be able to do that, a Shaoirse.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).