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  • noun Ireland somebody from Cork

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Examples

  • I am a Corkonian but my wife is Spanish and if I were to suggest anything like that she'd be on a plane before I finish ...

    SoHo Solo & Coworking, from Cork to the Canaries 2007

  • The Corkonian dialect is more or less modern Anglo-Irish with tonal characteristics and a speed at last double that of London speech.

    OMW in the UK « Whatever 2007

  • We had lots of ideas especially after meeting the Corkonian that morning.

    One of these days… 2004

  • The Corkonian has agreed to do some design work for us and we are all terribly excited.

    One of these days… 2004

  • C�ad m�le f�ilte After being brought into town for a tasty lunch by the Corkonian, we finally met up with Mileelers in Rathmines for hot chocolate and cake.

    One of these days… » 2003 » November » 09 2003

  • Pier pressure Himself and I had a lovely stroll along the pier in Howth after dropping the Corkonian and KH to the airport.

    One of these days… 2003

  • C�ad m�le f�ilte After being brought into town for a tasty lunch by the Corkonian, we finally met up with Mileelers in Rathmines for hot chocolate and cake.

    One of these days… 2003

  • To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale — that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • She came to me this morning, and sat in my kitchen, and cried so bitterly, and talked in her strong Corkonian brogue, and rocked herself backwards and forwards, and shook abroad the great lambent banners of her cap-border, -- a grotesque old woman, but sacred in her tender motherhood and her great grief.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

  • Corkonian, he was not insensible to the charms of a handsome woman some years his junior.

    Vellenaux A Novel

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