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burst verb- to strike someone violently IRELAND, 1987
This usage is common all over Ireland, and is used in a rhetorical sense, rather than literally. - He’d been going out with Mary for six years and he bursted [sic] anyone who looked crooked at her. — Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer, p. 100, 1997
- Shut yer bleedin’ mouth Trace or I’ll burst ye. — Donal Ruane, Tales in a rearview mirror, p. 21, 2003
- to pay for something that costs relatively little with a banknote UK
Literally “to burst the completeness of the banknote”; a variation of conventional “break”. - — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
- to ejaculate BAHAMAS, 1971
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 32, 1982
▶ burst out in fairy lights to show an expected level of enthusiasm UK: SCOTLAND- Whit d’ye want me tae dae... burst oot in fairy lights? — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, 1996
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