Sly Cooking, and Forty-Two Irresistible Gaelic Words

Here are some Gaelic words for your delectation, from a book of South Uist Gaelic words I found recently in the local island community shop, Buth Bharraigh.

What follows are the words, how to say them, and what they mean.
Aibheas - [eh-vis] - a large empty house, or a large clumsy person. Lengthen the "a" when pronouncing it.
Amhailteach - [aa - valtjach]- making odd gesticulations. Lengthen the "a" when pronouncing it.
Arralach - [ar-a-lach] - stubborn and saucy. "Nach e tha arralach?" said of a child who nearly chokes with impotent rage and pettish crying.
Basadair - [baa-sad-ir] - a hole in the soft ground (covered by moss) with water underneath, where sheep and cattle are often lost.
Bideag An Duine Mhairbh - [bee - jag an dinya vir-iv]- the dead man's nip. Father Allan heard of a woman who was married to a widower who was nipped severely on the night of her marriage. She thought it was his first wife.
Bileagach - [bill-a-gach] - said of a person who must taste and sip every food and drink he or she sees.
Blianas - [blee-a-nas] - a lump of pale flesh. Applied to a man with a large fat colourless face. Orpheus in "Inkspell" by Cornelia Funke is blianas.
Buigleag - [bwig-lag] - a soft-backed crab; a lukewarm indifferent character; a soft potato.
Cabag - [cabag] - a woman with too much talk.
Caoibhleag - [cuy-lag] - the little rings that form on the surface of fat soup.
Cas-bhacaig - [cass-vach-kaig] - a stumbling block, a tripping step.
Ceasad - [case-ag] - grumbling for lack of a thing. What keeps food to the fairies is this chiefly. Everything that mortals wish to have and cannot have becomes the portion of the fairies.
Cinnichd - [kin-yeehh-k] - tidying one's dress and one's person with nervous gesticulations.
Ciuthach - [cue-wach] - a cave-dweller, also said of a man with long, shaggy hair.
Cliar-Sheanchain - [clee-ar hen-ach-in] - a troop of bards which used to travel in company from the house of one gentleman to another, and whose hospitality they often put to an undue test.
Dloth - [dlaw] - if corn where to lodge through rain or wind and all lay the same way without being twisted and mixed together.
Earraig - [eh-rag] - an attempt, a tugging of a person to frighten him or a sudden darting upon him to frighten him.
Feadarraich - [fed-at-eehh] - when the fire was being smoored and the light put out, to terrify children a person would draw the tongs through the ashes, and the greenish red light from the embers were said to be the feadarraich coming for children who would not sleep quietly.
Foileag - [fu-lag] - an untidy woman for food and for any type of housework.
Foragradh - [for-ag-ragh] - disturbance of an uncanny nature heard in a house.
Forradh - [for-agh] - sly work about food, cooking slyly.
Geoinichd-Cinneachd - [gyon-eehhk keen-yach] - a fat solid block of a man.
Giobain - [gib-ine] - a rag, a wretched ragged bedraggled creature.
Glaigeil - [glag-yall] - loud talk as of garrulous females, all talking together.
Gogadaich - [gog-a-deehh] - tossing the head from side to side in a nervous or vainglorious manner.
Gosglach - [gaw-sklach] - the young birds before they leave the nest. Also the fat lump of a boy. Lengthen the "o" when pronouncing it.
Grudach - [groo-dach] - searching for a lost object in a muddy pool or well with the hands.
Iolagan - [ill-a-gun] - the reason why daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law can never agree is that the Devil is said to have shaken "iolagan" between them. What these "iolagan" are, Father Allan does not know and cannot find out (if not links of Devil's chain). That's one for the wedding reception!
Mabladh - mab-lagh] - awkward chewing such as a toothless old man would make. Messing a thing up.
Mionagadanan - [min-a-gad-an-un] - the atoms seen in a ray of sunlight coming in to a house.
Pill - [peel] - an old piece of cloth soaked and rotting. Pill, the "i" is lengthened to an "ee" sound, is also used for a wretched mangy unwashed "siliche" of a man. The first "i" is pronounced "ee".
Piobairean nan tobhtaichean - [peeb-a-run nan toaf-teeh-hun] - women who stand on the wall of the house and call their husbands to dinner or harangue their neighbours in a quarrel. The first "i" is pronounced "ee".
Riobag shonais - [rib-ag honnish] - a straggling hair growing on a woman's chin is called by some a hair of good fortune or by some others a hair of quarrelsomeness.
Romhan - [raw-an] - the choking groan of a cow with a potato in its throat.
Rong - [r-ow-ng] the spark of life in a dying beast.
Sgairt fhuathach - [sgartj oo-a-uch] - a horrible weird uncanny scream, from others than the visible denizens of the terrestrial globe.
Sgionc - [sgink] - forcing an object in to an aperture narrower than the object itself, e.g. putting a large cork in to a narrow-necked bottle.
Sgornaich - [scorn-eehh] - violent retching cough.
Sgrog - [skrog] - a contemptuous name for a old hulk of a woman. Also an old hat.
Smaig - [smuy-g] - a long chin, officiousness.
Storradh - [stor-agh] - to importune a person to take a thing as food when not inclined to take it. Forcing, urging strongly, pressing.
Uslaig - [u-slag] - a great hulk of a slovenly woman.