knawvshawl

present singular third person knawvshawls · participle present knawvshawling · participle past knawvshawled · past knawvshawled · alternative cnawvshawl · alternative knauvshawl

1. Irelandintransitiveto mutter or complain sullenly

   Nothing would do her but that the fort should be levelled, and she was ever grumbling and knawvshawling about it, if it wasn't about something else.

   2000, Rory O'Connor, Gander at the gate, →ISBN, page 244

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   On the way home in the trap, that night, the uncle started to cnawvshawl. "Houl', you hoor," said Dan, "there's a woman as has been watching your nephew this while will be rightly annoyed now that he's promised.

   1984, John B. Keane, Man of the triple name, →ISBN, page 75

   Suzanne Vega stereotyped 'Calypso' as we knawvshawled about our families (our begetters and begotten, no worse than the next, whose umbilical cords we're still spancelled to) before we went on to our respective wanderings.

   1997, The Irish review, numbers 20-21, page 123

   Secured with ballast of repartee, we drifted past murky, shallow waters of literary knawvshawl and found ourselves navigating a course I can't recall we ever traversed.

   1999, “The Leper and Civil Disobedience”, in Fortnight, numbers 376-390