Ok, it seems I was wrong about this. When I heard cuibheasach, it definitely sounded like the context was "very" or "extremely" but that could have been a misinterpretation on my part. I don't think I ever asked anyone to explain it.

I looked up "cuíosach" in the vocabulary section of Teach Yourself Irish (the old Cork version) and they give "fairly, moderate." (I like that spelling by the way, it seems to fit the pronunciation better). I already mentioned that my Collins dictionary gave "fair, middling, reasonable" for cuibheasach. So the Cork dialect and Standard Irish both agree with you.

Go raibh maith agat.

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Not a bother lad, cuíosach is the modern spelling of the word, cuibheasach is the older spelling.a/uibhe, uidhe, uighe are all pronounced as í- scéalaíocht (modern), sgéaluidheacht(d)/ sgéaluigheacht(d)/ sgéalaigheacht/ sgéalaidheacht (older spelling). Bean an tí (modern), bean an tighe (older). fear na gealaighe / fear na gealaí (man of the moon)... etc... If you are interested in the older spelling forms look at Mo sgéal féin le Peadar Ó Laoghaire the whole book is here http://wikisource.org/wiki/Mo_Sg%C3%A9al_F%C3%A9in.

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