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Spirit of Irish Wit 48: A celebrated abbess named Peg Plunkett with a few of her nymphs.at abbess, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 48: A celebrated abbess named Peg Plunkett with a few of her nymphs. Spirit of Irish Wit 111: An extremely rough voyage rendered the Abigail so sick, as to be unable to attend her lady.at abigail, n.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 118: [headline] agility. The lady taking a morning canter [...] around Dublin, her horse stumbled and pitched her ladyship over his head [...] ‘John, did you see my agility?’ ‘Faith, I did my lady sure enough [...] but I never heard it called by that name, before’ .at agility, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 100: Blur an ounds, when did you hear of a robbery?at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
Spirit of Irish Wit 201: He observed jocularly that by the Union, he had lost his bread and butter.at bread and butter, n.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 211: Having tipped off three or four glasses of thunder and lightning (i.e. gin and bitters)’.at thunder and lightning, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 9: The landlord, a pickled dog, said his wife had p—d, f—d, broke the pot, cut her a— , wetted the carpet, roared [...] all at the same moment.at arse, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 102: Peeling or blanching his bacon, meant stripping naked.at blanch one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 110: ‘They [i.e. nut shells] are all empty, you baggages’.at baggage, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 143: ‘Crupper your B— you old son of a b—h,’ answered the nymph.at ballocks, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 176: How beastly drunk he was.at beastly, adv.
Spirit of Irish Wit 111: A humped back nobleman [...] told Peg [Plunket, a well-known bawd] it was surprsing that ‘so ugly a B— [...] ever thought of taking up her trade’.at bitch, n.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 224: Bite, I’m to be hang’d in chains .at bite!, excl.
Spirit of Irish Wit 6: He was only endeavouring to assist and did not expect to be blown up for his civlity.at blow up, v.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 102: ‘Blue blazes to your soul, you bloody tief’.at blue blazes (n.) under blue, adj.5
Spirit of Irish Wit 28: ‘My wife, Bridget Coole, she is a tight, neat, body’.at body, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 221: Ye are all a pack of such bloody-minded bog-trotters [...} I dare say it was some one [...] of y who kill’d poor Teddy Balin .at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
Spirit of Irish Wit 221: Ye slabber up wickedness as if it was buttermilk or bonnaugh clabber.at bonny-clapper, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 248: He meets a staring country booby.at booby, n.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 170: ‘Oh,’ says Pat, ’boderation you blundering mug’’.at botheration, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 167: A morning dip in the briny element.at briny, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 104: A brother of the Brush, called Black Dick from his bushy beard.at brother (of the) brush (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 99: [A]n eminent bruiser [...] incontinetly addicted to whisky.at bruiser, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 117: ‘Did you not say this gutter bully [...] received the first asault’.at bully, n.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 230: ‘He would not part with his supper [...] for all the demi-reps and bullies from Cork to Antrim ’.at bully, n.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 31: [of one who died of drink] Ned Smith was burnt-out last week, though he could scarce take a spencers at last.at burned out, adj.1
Spirit of Irish Wit 21: No woman is to be admitted in half mourning, or those that have business on both sides of the street.at have business on both sides of the way (v.) under business, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 220: A tongue that would carney over the very devil himself.at carney, v.
Spirit of Irish Wit 265: I had buckled my carrots in M.D. array.at carrots, n.
Spirit of Irish Wit 197: Deaf, giddy, helpless [...] I hardly hear a woman’s clack.at clack, n.
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