dab - Hamely Tongue
Source: The Hamely Tongue: A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim
Author: James Fenton
Comments: ‘The Hamely Tongue’ has been widely acclaimed as the authoritative record of contemporary (surviving) Ulster-Scots in its heartland of County Antrim where James Fenton faithfully recorded his dictionary items among a network of other native speakers over a 30-year period. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from ‘Part One’ of the fourth edition of 2014 and includes over 3000 word entries. The book preliminaries, supplementary word lists and end matter have been excluded.
dab ~ v., n. peck. dab-at-the-stool potatoes eaten with salt as the only kitchen (the salt being placed on a low stool, often by the fireside; cf. shame-a-haet: see haet). n. the ideal job, position, etc. (Man that’s jaist yer dab). adj. (as in) dab han a highly skilled person (He’s a dab han at daein naethin an gettin weel pied for it).
