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- noun Ireland, pejorative Alternative spelling of
scanger .
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Examples
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It was very class-conscious in its sympathetic portrayal of someone we might otherwise perceive and dismiss as a no good "skanger" and not something you'd ever see on RTE.
Politics.ie SlabMurphy 2010
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You are a skanger - after the sports virtually begged to use Croke Park!
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You are a skanger - after the sports virtually begged to use Croke Park!
knitandpurl commented on the word skanger
"...So I only had ten miserable pounds worth of an altar, despite the fact that I shitted bricks chasing every old skanger and scum bucket putting money on their altars."
The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley, p 70
June 5, 2016