gnafeen

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gnaȝen (“to gnaw”), from Old English gnagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gnagan. Compare also Middle English gnaffed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈfiːn/

Verb

gnafeen

1. (figurative) chopping
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Gnafeen a beanes.

     Chopping the sod on beans.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42