caffler n.
(Irish) a contemptible person, often cheeky and foolish.
[ | ![]() | Gloss. Almondbury 21: Caffler ... a shuffler, excuse-maker, &c]. |
![]() | Dundee Courier 26 Mar. 7/1: The man said: He must be a caffler. | |
![]() | Eng. As We Speak It In Ireland. | |
![]() | Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories 66: Are you going to be stopped by a city caffler? | |
![]() | Traveller’s Samples 7: Nora came skeltering madly down the church. ‘Lord God!’ she cried, ‘The snivelling little caffler! I knew he’d do it! I knew he’d disgrace me!’. | |
![]() | An Only Child (1970) 13: Oh, listen to George Crosbie, the dirty little caffler! | |
![]() | Cork Holly Bough n.p.: ‘You caffler, you scut, you trickie, you tally-boy,’ he roared [BS]. | |
![]() | The People who Drank Water from the River 80: There were the ‘cafflers’ (pranksters) and the straight-laced, the loudmouths and taciturns. | |
![]() | (con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 56: Get out of bed, ye caffler, and get down to school. | |
![]() | Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Caffler (n): arsehole, idiot, eejit. | |
![]() | Dublin Noir 224: ‘Fecking caffler,’ Mell says, ‘you really have no idea what's going on?’. |