boiseog

Irish

From bos (“palm”) +‎ -óg.

boiseog f (genitive singular boiseoig, nominative plural boiseoga)

slap, cuff (blow dealt with the open hand)
Thug mo mháthair boiseog dom.
My mother slapped me.
(literally, “…gave me a slap”)
clap (slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner), pat (light tap or slap)
palmful of water
Cuir boiseog ar d’aghaidh is bí ag teacht.
Splash some water on your face and come along.
(literally, “Put a palmful of water on your face…”)
ripple (moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid)
Synonym: cuilithín

Declension of boiseog

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	boiseog	boiseoga
Vocative	a bhoiseog	a bhoiseoga
Genitive	boiseoige	boiseog
Dative	boiseog boiseoig (archaic, dialectal)	boiseoga

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bhoiseog	na boiseoga
Genitive	na boiseoige	na mboiseog
Dative	leis an mboiseog leis an mboiseoig (archaic, dialectal) don bhoiseog don bhoiseoig (archaic, dialectal)	leis na boiseoga

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
boiseog	bhoiseog	mboiseog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “baiseog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
^ “boiseog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ “busóg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 88

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “baiseóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “basóg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 57
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “boiseog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 75
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “boiseog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN