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drunkard (n.) sheer-veshtallagh; meshtyllagh, meshteyllagh; meshtallagh: Confessed drunkard - Meshtallagh rere eh hene. DF idiom; meshteyr: A drunkard like you - Meshteyr jeh dty lhieds. DF idiom
glutton (n.) glutterey: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty - Son hig y meshtyllagh, as y glutterey gys boghtynid Bible
fritlaggyn rags: Son hig y meshtyllagh, as y glutterey gys boghtynid; as bee’n cadlag coodit lesh fritlaggyn Bible
glutterey pl. gluttyryn glutton, gormandiser, gormandizer, guzzler: hig y meshtyllagh, as y glutterey gys boghtynid Bible
jalloonys dwoaiagh abominable idolatries: choud's ren shiu gimmeeaght ayns rouanys, sayntyn ny foalley, jooid-feeyney, cuirraghyn jollyssagh, meeiteilyn meshtyllagh, as jalloonys dwoaiagh Bible
idolater (n.) jallooder: if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner - my ta dooinney erbee ta enmyssit braar ny vaarderagh, ny sayntoilagh, ny jallooder, ny fer scammyltagh, ny meshtyllagh, ny ny hranlaasagh; jalloonagh
boghtynid (f.) jargon, nonsense; need, poverty, want: hig y meshtyllagh, as y glutterey gys boghtynid Bible; penury: Ayns dy chooilley laboraght ta vondeish: agh cha vel agh boghtynid ayns taggloo ny meillyn. Bible; spareness; nakedness: As dooyrt eh roo, Cha nee, agh dy akin boghtynid y cheer ta shiu er jeet. Bible; poor, shabbiness: My ver oo argid er eeasaght da veg jeh my phobble, ta fo boghtynid mayrt, cha jig oo ro hionn er Bible; poorness
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