ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Chomh ~ le sionnach, as cunning as a fox.
Níor chríonna an cat ná an coimhéadaí, ‘the watcher was as cunning as the cat’, the trick was discovered in time.
Gliceas, cealg, a dhéanamh, to resort to cunning, deceit.
Chomh dubh, glic, bréagach, leis an ~, as black, cunning, false, as Satan.
~the agus meang, wiles and cunning.
Gliceas agus ~, cunning and subtlety.
Sionnach na ~, the cunning fox.
Bhí sé glic, ~ shionnach, he was cunning, this fox.
Is é an ~ é, he is a snake, a cunning treacherous person.