Graanoge, graan-yoge [_aa_ in both long like _a_ in _car_], a hedgehog. Irish _gráineóg_, same sound.
Graanshaghaun [_aa_ long as in _car_]; wheat (in grain) boiled. (Joyce: Limerick.) In my early days what we called _graanshaghaun_ was wheat in grains, not boiled, but roasted in an iron pot held over the fire, the wheat being kept stirred till done.
Graffaun; a small axe with edge across like an adze for grubbing or _graffing_ land, i.e. rooting out furze and heath in preparation for tillage. Used all through the South. 'This was the word used in Co. Cork law courts.' (Healy.) Irish _grafán_, same sound and meaning.
Graip or grape; a dung-fork with three or four prongs. Irish _grápa_.
Grammel; to grope or fumble or gather with both hands. (Derry.)
Grawls; children. Paddy Corbett, thinking he is { 268} ruined, says of his wife:--'God comfort poor Jillian and the grawls I left her.' (Edward Walsh.) 'There's Judy and myself and the poor little grawls.' (Crofton Croker: p. 155.)
Grawvar; loving, affectionate:--'That's a grawver poor boy.' (Munster.) Irish _grádhmhar_, same sound and meaning: from _grádh_, love.
Grazier; a young rabbit. (South and West.)
Great; intimate, closely acquainted:--'Tom Long and Jack Fogarty are very great.' (All over Ireland.) 'Come gie's your hand and sae we're _greet_.' (Burns.)
Greedy-gut; a glutton; a person who is selfish about stuffing himself, wishing to give nothing to anyone else. Gorrane Mac Sweeny, when his mistress is in want of provisions, lamenting that the eagles (over Glengarriff) were devouring the game that the lady wanted so badly, says:--'Is it not the greatest pity in life ... that these greedy-guts should be after swallowing the game, and my sweet mistress and her little ones all the time starving.' (Caesar Otway in 'Pen. Journ.')
Greenagh; a person that hangs round hoping to get food (Donegal and North-West): a 'Watch-pot.'
Greesagh; red hot embers and ashes. 'We roasted our potatoes and eggs in the greesagh.' (All over Ireland.) Irish _gríosach_, same sound.
Greet; to cry. 'Tommy was greetin' after his mother.' (Ulster.)
Greth; harness of a horse: a general name for all the articles required when yoking a horse to the cart. (Knowles: Ulster.)