a-hagur

Updated: May 13, 2025

"'Why, thin, Holy Mother! Jack, a-hagur, is there anything the matther, for you look as if you had seen something?* * This phrase means you look as if you had seen a ghost; it is a very common one. "'Nothing worse than myself, mother, he replied; 'nor there's nothing the matther at all only I have a few words to say to Mick here, that's all.

William Carleton - The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three

Poor Bob! he is gone the way of all fools, and all flesh. "Indeed, childher, it's no wonder for yez to enquire! Where did I get him, Dick? musha, and where would I get him but in the ould place, a-hagur; with the ould set: don't yez know that a dacent place or dacent company wouldn't sarve Ned? nobody but Shane Martin, and Jimmy Tague, and the other blackguards."*

William Carleton - The Ned M'Keown Stories: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three