Messages

Definitions

1. Shopping, groceries, errands.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, plural, plural-only
2. Message.

Equivalents

Examples

“I was going up the town to buy⟳ some messages.”

“A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw⟳ yer man in the shop⟳ when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. […]"”

“A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash⟳ my soily hands before touching her messages.”

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