me daza

alternative mi daza · alternative me dazza

1. CorkIrelandnot comparableslang(usually predicative) excellent, great, very nice, fine

   ‘These clippers are me daza,’ said Dermot admiringly. ‘I’ll have to buy some meself.’

   2015, Graham Masterton, “Chapter Nineteen”, in Blood Sisters, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 151

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   “You'll be treated terribly when I go,” she said. “Oh, I’m jake. I’m me daza. Don’t think of me. But what about you? My poor girleen, what'll you do?”

   1936, Seán Ó Faoláin, “Part II The Jungle; Chapter 3”, in Bird Alone, New York: Viking, page 116

   MULTO CHIC! That is what lovely Italian film stars, Sylva Koschina and Luisa Della Noce said about the traditional hooded cloak of West Cork. They're me daza! That is what the Lee-siders said about the stars. Both phrases mean the same thing, for the Italian girls and the Cork people fell for each other in a big way at the film festival last week.

   1956 June 2, “MULTO CHIC! The girls too!”, in Pictorial, volume 32, number 4309, Dublin: The Irish Times, page 1

   ‘Danno, I certainly appreciate the excellent cuisine of your good woman.’ ‘Yeah, it’s me daza! Ye can’t beat a good tightener in the middle of the day [.]’

   1966, Seamus Murphy, “Chapter 3”, in Stone Mad, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 14

   Saturday afternoon and I'm drinking with the guys thinking of the day's results and your lovely eyes ... 2 pints of rasa, I think you're me daza

   1993, Niall O'Flaherty, Pat O'Connell, “2 Pints of Rasa”, in Casual Sex in the Cineplex, performed by Sultans of Ping FC, Rhythm King

   Clonakilty Blackpudding! 'tis me daza, full of pep! To put the lead back in your pencil and the spring back in your step

   1998, Jimmy Crowley, “Clonakilty Blackpudding”, in Uncorked!, Greentrax, CDTRAX 165