Cannt

v.

Heard in Waterford and Dublin

The act of losing the central playing apparatus of a game without possibility of retrieval.

What did you cannt de ball for ye bollix?

Posh English

For what conceivable reason did you manage to lose the spherical apparatus, you clumsy idiot?

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