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níochán m (genitive singular níocháin)

  1. (act of) washing; wash, laundry
  2. clothes washed or to be washed
  3. (Cois Fharraige, Ulster) verbal noun of nigh
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe di a’ bpósfadh sí é.
      He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him.

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 67

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