Yoke

n.

Heard in Fermanagh, Offaly, Kilkenny, Longford, Sligo, Leitrim, Armagh, Limerick, Wexford and Westmeath

A mode of transport, typically a rather fine or eccentric tractor.

In use

That's a quare yoke there

Posh English

That is a rather splendid agricultural conveyance over there.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Mad yokeA crazy or eccentric person. Generally deployed admiringly when somebody does something…
  • Bayste of a yokeThe male version of a Mullingar Heifer. Someone that is built like a brick shit-house.
  • Beast of a yokeWhat you would call a huge person as in huge fat or strong.
  • Cnut of a yokeA deeply frustrating, broken-down, or annoying piece of machinery.
  • Durty aul yokeAn unattractive woman or girl.
  • Ow'l yokeAn undesirable or unpleasant sort of person.