Leaba

n.

Heard in Waterford and Cork

Irish word for bed, often used in West Waterford in the English language.

I was stuck in de leaba for a week with the flu boy.

Posh English

I was confined strictly to my bed for an entire week with the influenza, my good fellow.

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