(Ireland) Of, relating to, or characteristic of Cork.
(Ireland) Of, relating to, or characteristic of Cork.
But there is nothing malevolent in the Corkonian mode of levying toll upon old residents and new comers; priests with frowning faces, and queer-looking little boys with funny ones, and a miscellaneous lot of noisy patriots always going t…
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(Ireland, slang, countable) A person from the north side of Cork City, Ireland.
(UK, slang, archaic) A person born of Irish parents in any part of the southern counties of England.
(Ireland, slang, obsolete, card games) The ace of diamonds.
(Ireland) A joke poking fun at the people from Kerry in Ireland.
(Ireland) A native or inhabitant of Cork.
Vivacious and versatile, beyond the average even of Irishmen, the Corkonians mingle raillery with their hospitality, and cut up cattle and human nature with a trenchant ease and constant energy, as if they had taken a government contract…