Sorry for probably a silly question. I've found this word on several sites with lists of words that are (supposedly) unique to one language and don't exist in others. According to those sites, ládramhaíola means 'a wasted day, a day when you planned a lot of things, but did none'.
Now, I'm always a bit suspicious of such sites because of their inaccuracy. I'm Russian, and on many of them I've seen Russian words with the wrong spelling, wrong meaning, or ones that didn't make any sense.
So my question is: Is ládramhaíola a real Irish word and could be used by a native speaker? I know that lá is 'day' and dramhaíl is 'waste', but are they used in this combination?

It's not a dumb question at all. I don't think lá is normally combined to make compound words like that, but I don't have my dictionary with me. And dramhaíl means "waste", but I think of it more as refuse/garbage. So lá dramhaíola is grammatically correct, but I would interpret as "rubbish day", i.e. the day you put the refuse out to be collected! But let's see what others say.

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I can't find ládramhaíola (or lá dramhaíola.

Dinneen (1904) has:
Dinneen (1927) also has:

d. coirce "inferior oats"
d. aráin "useless bread"
d. féir "inferior hay"
d. éisc "fish not fit for consumption"

FGB also has:

dramhaíl bhia "trashy food, remnants of food" (wonder if that can mean "leftovers" ?)
dramhaíl chainte "nonsensical talk, tripe"


Given the above, I would expect dramhaíl lae for "a waste of a day".

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Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I haven't heard the word personally, but that doesn't mean it's not used somewhere.


I'd say -
"lá cuirte amú" - for a "wasted day"

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Go raibh maith agaibh! That's really helpful.