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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(humorous, literary, Ireland) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:.
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.
Use capernosity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Capernosity means (humorous, literary, Ireland) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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