noun
General Slang
gansey
· noun · irish
A jumper or sweater, especially a knitted one.
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Definitions
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A jumper or sweater — usually the warm woolly kind your mam makes you put on before you leave the house. Standard household word across Ireland.
“Put a gansey on you, it's perishing out.”
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Used figuratively in the phrase 'making a gansey load' or 'a gansey load of' to mean a huge amount of something. Less common but heard.
“He made an absolute gansey load of money flipping those gaffs.”
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gansey In A Sentence
Put a gansey on you, it's perishing out.
He made an absolute gansey load of money flipping those gaffs.
Origin & Usage
From 'Guernsey', the Channel Island whose fishermen wore tight-knit wool jumpers. The name travelled with the garment into Irish and northern English usage.
Variants
guernsey
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