Meaning of Messages | Babel Free

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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