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): /naˈɸiːn/

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
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