Flaithiúlach

n.

Heard in Roscommon

Someone who is very generous, particularly with money, is said to be flaithiúlach.

In use

She's awful flaithiúlach, she's always buying drink for people.

Posh English

She is wonderfully openhanded, and is perpetually purchasing alcoholic beverages for sundry persons.

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