Portlairge

n.

Heard in Waterford

A digging implement with a shovel blade on one side and a pickaxe point on the other, used in the boy scouts.

Get your portlairge and dig a latrine over by the ditch there.

Posh English

Fetch your combination entrenching tool and excavate a latrine over by the hedgerow.

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