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snanderbatch (67 words)
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Let's not even get into the Bond female villain.
c_b: that's exactly right - go leor is an Irish phrase meaning "plentiful" or "abundant".
The expression maith go leor, meaning roughly "fair enough", is a common conversational gapfiller in Irish English.
I don't know how to type phonetically, but "maith" is pronounced like "moll" without the finishing "ll".
Wordie: words galore! :-)
from "go leor," which I forget the exact definition of--I think it's "a lot of" or something close to that, but unlike the English "many" or "much," "go leor" is used after the noun in question.
After liquids came solids. Cold joints galore and mince pies.
Joyce, Ulysses, 10