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   Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 21:25:40 JST Antiqueight

   Dear #mastodaoine how do you spell shellakipooky?
   IYKYK

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     John Brophy (jk001@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 21:39:25 JST John Brophy

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     @Antiqueight I'm seeing it in a few places as "shellakybooky" but I assume it's an anglicised version of the Irish, and so there are probably multiple spellings in English.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 23:22:44 JST Antiqueight

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     • John Brophy

     @jk001 Yes- I just couldn't find ANY of the spellings I tried this morning and was beginning to wonder

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 23:23:09 JST Antiqueight

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     • Ailbhe

     @Ailbhe thank you, I couldn't find any spelling online this morning and was wondering!!

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     Ailbhe (ailbhe@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 23:23:10 JST Ailbhe

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     @Antiqueight shellackybúcaí
     That's how *I* spell it

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 23:25:57 JST Antiqueight

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     I had no idea it was a Deise word...

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 23:28:35 JST Antiqueight

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     Dear @theirishfor
     all of which leads me to ask, what words this got mangled FROM to make this word... and if it's deise, that includes what language were those words IN. Do you know?

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     Priyangee :autistic: (pinguicverse@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 00:11:40 JST Priyangee :autistic:

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     @Antiqueight This is what I found in my Irish Slang Dictionary.

     (Yes, I have an Irish Slang Dictionary)

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 00:52:18 JST Antiqueight

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     • Ailbhe

     @Ailbhe I had never tried before, that I remember

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     Ailbhe (ailbhe@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 00:52:19 JST Ailbhe

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     @Antiqueight I don't think it's a thing that gets spelled

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     IanMoore3000 (ianmoore3000@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 00:53:45 JST IanMoore3000

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     @Antiqueight @theirishfor from Focloir.ie, the Irish for snail is seilide, so that might be the first bit. Maybe the last bit is from púca.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 00:55:29 JST Antiqueight

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     • Priyangee :autistic:

     @pinguicverse That needs to go up on wiktionary too I think.... Do you have the details of the slang dictionary. And hmm, maybe I need one of those....

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 00:55:40 JST Antiqueight

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     • IanMoore3000

     @IanMoore3000 @theirishfor You seem to be right!

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     IanMoore3000 (ianmoore3000@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 01:08:15 JST IanMoore3000

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     @Antiqueight @theirishfor

     It's odd that a colloquial term for snail is effectively snail-goblin.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 01:09:34 JST Antiqueight

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     • IanMoore3000

     @IanMoore3000 especially when it's usually said with a certain degree of fondness... as a child it was 'cute' "look at the wee snail-goblin" my mammy would say... so to speak...

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 01:12:32 JST Antiqueight

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     Literally a seilide-púca. Hah,
     Thank you #mastodaoine

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     IanMoore3000 (ianmoore3000@mastodon.ie)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 03:16:52 JST IanMoore3000

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     @Antiqueight I read on Wikipedia that the Púka isn't always seen as threatening and in the traditions of some localities is seen as benevolent, so maybe it's more like pixie-snail.