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amadan

n. (context dialect Ireland English) fool, loony, idiot

Usage examples of "amadan".

But instead of getting weaker, it was getting stronger the Amadan was on this fare, and he was able to thrash all of his stepbrothers together.

So to be making the most of his time, down the Amadan sat at the table and whacked away.

But before he died he put the Amadan under geasa to meet and to fight the White Wether of the Hill of the Waterfalls.

Then he set out and travelled back again to the little hut that had no shelter without or within, only one feather over it, and the rough, red woman was standing in the door: and she welcomed the Amadan and asked him the news.

And when he was dying, he called the Amadan and put him under a geasa to meet and fight the Beggarman of the King of Sweden.

And when he came there, he saw a great cloud that shot out of the sky, descending on the hill, and when it came down on the hill and melted away, there it left the Beggarman of the King of Sweden standing, and between his legs the Amadan saw the whole world and nothing over his head.

He asked the Amadan who he was, and what he had done to have the impudence to come there and meet him.

And at length the fight was putting so hard upon the beggarman, and he was getting so weak, that he whistled, and the mist came around him, and he went up into the sky before the Amadan knew.

He remained there until he refreshed himself, and then came down again, and at it again he went for the Amadan, and fought harder and harder than before, and again it was putting too hard upon him, and he whistled as before for the mist to come down and take him up.

But before he died he put geasa on the Amadan to meet and fight the Silver Cat of the Seven Glens.

Amadan had had on the other days were great and terrible, this one was far greater and far more terrible than all the others put together, and the poor Amadan sorely feared that before night fell he would be a dead man.

Amadan open and he was about to fall, she opened her mouth so wide that the Amadan saw down to the very bottom of her stomach, and there he saw the black speck that the red woman had told him of.

She took them up and rubbed the Amadan with the iocshlainte, and he jumped to his feet, alive and well, and fresh as when he began the fight.

They had one sister, the most beautiful young maiden that the Amadan had ever beheld.

They gave her to the Amadan in marriage, and gave her half of all they owned for fortune.