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Clockwise from top: fish and chips; döner kebab; pizza delivery. Take-out or takeout is a prepared meal or other food items, purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is common worldwide, with a number of different cuisines and dishes on offer.
Also known as "full Irish", "Irish fry" or "Ulster fry". Bricfeasta friochta. Rashers, sausages and eggs, often served with a variety of side dishes such as fried mushrooms, soda bread and puddings. Garlic cheese chips. Sceallóga le cáis agus gairleog [4] Chips with garlic mayonnaise and melted cheddar cheese. Goody.
Spice bag. A spice bag (or spicebag, spicy bag, spice box or spicy box; Irish: mála spíosrach) [3] is a fast food dish, popular in most of Ireland and inspired by Chinese cuisine. [4] The dish is most commonly sold in Chinese takeaways in Ireland, [5] and Irish-themed restaurants elsewhere. [6] Typically, a spice bag consists of deep-fried ...
caubeen – An Irish beret, adopted as part of the uniform of Irish regiments of the British Army. From cáibín. clabber – also bonny-clabber (from clábar and bainne clábair) curdled milk. clarsach – An ancient Irish and Scottish harp, from Irish cláirseach. clock – O.Ir. clocc meaning "bell".
a cirque or mountain lake, of glacial origin. (OED) Irish or Scots Gaelic coire 'Cauldron, hollow'. craic. fun, used in Ireland for fun/enjoyment. The word is actually English in origin; it entered into Irish from the English "crack" via Ulster Scots. The Gaelicised spelling craic was then reborrowed into English.
Culchie. Culchie is a term in Hiberno-English for someone from rural Ireland. The term usually has a pejorative meaning directed by urban Irish against rural Irish, but since the late 20th century, the term has also been reclaimed by some who are proud of their rural or small-town origin. In Dublin, the term culchie is often used to describe ...
Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs[3] (Shelta: Mincéirí), [4] are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous [5] ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. [6][7][8] They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and Irish ...
A geis or geas (pl. geasa) is an idiosyncratic taboo, whether of obligation or prohibition, similar to being under a vow or curse, yet the observance of which can also bring power and blessings. It is also used to mean specifically a spell prohibiting some action. Geasa are common in Irish and Scottish folklore and mythology, as well as in ...