Like

n.

Heard in Galway, Kilkenny, Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Limerick and Waterford

A filler word used at the end of almost every sentence.

In use

D'ya know like, yer man like?

Posh English

Do you follow my discourse concerning that fellow, like?

Same phrase, other counties

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