Me-aw

v.

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To wish bad-luck or put a curse on something. As Gaeilge, mí-ádh.

In use

She put de me-aw on me after I told her she haves a head like a scabby arse.

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She placed a curse upon me after I told her she had a head like a scabby posterior.

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