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nabocklish

nabocklish interjection: don't worry about it; never mind.

Interjection

  1. (Ireland) Don't worry about it; never mind.
    • Nabocklish. Run, Pat, and hurry the car. Sure we're to go round by the gaol to take Macarthy up.1862, Henry Robert Addison, Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate
    • An it's little O'Malley cares for the law—bad luck to it; it's himself can laugh at judge and jury. Arrest him—nabocklish —catch a weasel asleep,” &c.1879, Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Malley, the Irish dragoon

Forms of nabocklish

alternative formnabocklesh

Origin of nabocklish

From Irish ná bac leis (don't bother with it).

Questions about nabocklish

What does nabocklish mean?
Nabocklish means don't worry about it; never mind.
What part of speech is nabocklish?
Nabocklish is an interjection.

Words near nabocklish in the dictionary

  1. nabobry
  2. nabobs
  3. nabobship
  4. nabobships
  5. nabocklesh
  6. nabocklish
  7. naboctate
  8. nabokoite
  9. Nabokov
  10. Nabokovesque
  11. Nabokovian

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