langer

Meaning

Noun

  • Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
  • A person from south county Dublin.
  • Penis.

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Origin

  • Uncertain. Suggestions include:
  • from langur monkeys, via the Munster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India
  • from languor
  • from lang, variant of long
  • from "on the lang", supposed variant of on the lam
  • from leangaire, a word in Cnósach Focal ó Bhaile Bhúirne, a dictionary of the Muskerry Gaeltacht. It means an unusually long slender salmon.

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