also GLOFFARE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY echoic: cf. globbe, glop, gulp; also Danish (dial.) gluffe, Swedish (dial.) gluffa, to eat hastily or noisily (said e.g. of pigs), gluffi a glutton From: A Middle English Dictionary, Edited by Sherman M. Kuhn
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Rosaline Lardner
6/6/2021 05:56:31 am
We used this word as a noun and a verb in our home in north Co Galway when we were young. We still use it to this day but not as frequently. Maybe that's because we're better fed nowadays! Joke. We certainly weren't hungry as children, but there was great welcome for certain foods which were gloffered gleefully on sight. My nephew in Dublin now uses this frequently in verbal form and I was very surprised to hear it in North London a couple of years ago from a woman whose mother also hailed from North Co Galway.
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10/6/2021 10:51:52 pm
Thank you for passing that along.
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