ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
2. ~ geab, (i) pecking, (ii) chit-chat.
Bhí ~ geab aici orm, she kept pecking at me.
Ag ~adh an fhéir, picking, pecking at, the grass.
Ag priocadh is ag ~adh ar a chéile, ‘pricking and pecking at one another’, quarrelling among themselves.
Phriocfaidís na súile asat, they would peck your eyes out.