LEARNING TO SPEAK CORKONIAN
Today I came across the following statement: “Langerload is currently not in the top 100 on the Baby Names Popularity Charts in the USA”
A ‘langer’ is an annoying person; but to be ‘langers/langered’ is to be drunk. If you say “she’s a langer” it means that she is a very annoying, but if her husband “was langered” means he was drunk.
A langerload is a huge amount especially in the case of excessive drinking.
The painted box is on Father Mathew Quay … and what was he famous for? Theobald Mathew (10 October 1790 – 8 December 1856) was an Irish Catholic priest and teetotalist reformer, popularly known as Father Mathew.