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Thread #111697   Message #3246089
Posted By: Jim Dixon
28-Oct-11 - 10:05 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nancy Hogan's Goose (from Con Greaney)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nancy Hogan's Goose (from Con Greaney)
From A Dictionary of Hiberno-English by Terence Patrick Dolan:

gliogar, also glugger, gliug-ar n., the rattling sound of a rotten egg; an addled egg; a gurgle; the slurping noise in a pipe of tobacco; fig. a foolish blabber; a childless woman < Ir (cf, GLIOG)