Larfin'

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of laughing. Ireland, alt-of, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling

    "Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed."

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"Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed."

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