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 graw]. 'I have great gra for poor Tom.' I asked an Irishman who had returned from America and settled down again here and did well:—'Why did you come back from America?' 'Ah,' he replied, 'I have great gra for the old country.'


 * Graanbroo; wheat boiled in new milk and sweetened: a great treat to children, and generally made from their own gleanings or liscauns, gathered in the fields. Sometimes called brootheen. (Munster.) The first from Irish grán, grain, and brúgh, to break or bruise, to reduce to pulp, or cook, by boiling. Brootheen (also applied to mashed potatoes) is from brúgh, with the diminutive.


 * 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.


 * Grammar and Pronunciation, 74.


 * Grammel; to grope or fumble or gather with both hands. (Derry.)


 * Graves, Mr. A. P., 58, &c.


 * Grawls; children. Paddy Corbett, thinking he is