Has anyone ever heard of the word "deludthrin"?

Question

It's in a jazz-influenced a capella Irish folk song called "The Star of the County Down." I'm supposed to look up it's definition, but I've found absolutely nothing from three dictionaries, an encyclopedia, wikipedia, and google. It's probably a very old word that isn't in any standard dictionaries anymore. Any information? Thanks. :)

Answer 1

Its not an old word its Hiberno-English, which is the English we speak in Ireland.

Its also written sort of phonetically.

The word is "deludering" which sounds like "deludthrin" when you say it or if your from Dublin like I am it sounds like "deluthirdin"

Obviously deludering is not a word in British or American English.

The word is delude.

In British/ American English it would be deluding lies.

In Hiberno-English its deludering lies.

People do say deluding aswell.

Answer 2

1. Here's a website which seems to indicate a meaning for deludhering (see spelling).

http://www.pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.ph...

2. Actually, the correct term is "It's" (short for it is), not "its" which is the possessive version of it. Yeah, I'm a grammar freak.