snifthering

Updated: May 14, 2025

"'Oh! by this and by that, mother, says Jack, 'what did you waken me for? "'Jack, avourneen, says the mother, 'sure and you war lying grunting, and groaning, and snifthering there, for all the world as if you had the cholic, and I only nudged you for fraid you war in pain.

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