Meaning of capernosity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include
   Ireland, humorous, literary, uncountable
2. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   Ireland, humorous, literary, uncountable
3. capability and generosity
   Ireland, humorous, literary, uncountable
4. competence, flair
   Ireland, humorous, literary, uncountable
5. peevishness, ill temper
   Ireland, humorous, literary, uncountable

Examples

“Besides, my grandmother, who lived at the top of the next house, was a lady of capernosity and function. She had money and lay in bed all day, drinking porter or malt, and taking pinches of snuff, and talking to the neighbours that would call up to tell her the news of the day.”

“… in Howth they have a paper of their own, in which is reported the wedding of a girl from the Hill. The affair was carried out with function and capernosity, by all accounts …”

“Myself and my brothers joined in this [singing], with function and capernosity, as true little Republicans …”

“I would have liked to have helped him for he was a good skin and I knew his mother and father, brothers and sisters as well as I knew my own, and we fought the same battles together, on the playground and elsewhere, with great function and capernosity.”

“It is bad enough to listen to his putative successor and having serious doubts about him ... but to listen to a pretender from the Opposition benches must be frightful on the Taoiseach. [...] A man of his “capernosity” and function must be horrified to have to put up with me.”

“I knew if ever I was underneath I'd get it from you — it's the red hair and the awkward loins gúngaire they called us at home, the man with the flange in his hips but by the ghost of Mick Collins there's more function about me than capernosity!”

“Full of capernosity and function at 6 p.m. Homeless at 8 p.m. And no insurance.”

“Ragged embers, horn of an anvil, hovering bellows, a tongs of function and capernosity.”

“'And other forms of complaint more pernicious—' 'Deleterious—' 'More capricious—' 'Meretricious—' 'And if not done with capernosity and function, is it worth doing at all?'”

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