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Meaning of "hawkin' twang" and "traycle depot"
Hello. What does it mean here?
"Come listen to my story, it's about a nice young man
When the militia wasn't a wantin', he dealt in hawkin' twang
He loved a lovely maiden as fair as any midge
And she kept a traycle depot one side of the Carlisle bridge
Well, another one came a courtin' her and his name was Mickey Baggs"
This is from old Irish song "The Twang Man"
1 ส.ค. 2020 เวลา 5:25
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I'm no Dubliner, but I can try and help you out. Hopefully you'll get an answer from someone that is Irish and knows what they're talking about.
I think twang means toffee, as far as I remember. Hawkin' is an abbreviation of Hawking and means selling (to sell). He was selling toffee.
I think that the Traycle depot is some kind of shop that she owned near Carlisle Bride, but I'm not 100% sure about what kind of shop. Maybe a Treacle shop, or a sweet shop? That is a guess though.
Just so you know this is a hard song to translate because it's full of a lot of very Dublin specific slang.
1 สิงหาคม 2020
THE TWANGMAN (C.O'L.,1, p.231) — A lighthearted murder story from the middle of the last century. I am told that twang man was a kind of sweetmeat (Partridge's definition cannot be admitted to holy Ireland) and that Treacle Billy was a kind of toffee made from treacle. Carlisle Bridge is now O'Connell Bridge.
18 ส.ค. 2025 เวลา 22:46
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