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"(slang, Ireland, derogatory) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male)."
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"ref": "1996, Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, →ISBN, page 8:",
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"ref": "2006, September 3, Brendan O'Connor Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent",
"text": "And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be \"street\"."
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"ref": "2006 November 22, Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent",
"text": "Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy."
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"(slang, Ireland, vulgar) Penis."
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"text": "Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy."
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