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Tarry Flynn (1965) 13: Not that I care a straw for that whipster of Reilley’s.at not care a straw, v.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 13: Not that I care a straw for that whipster of Reilley’s. Tarry Flynn (1965) 31: As he was using only one horse to pull the plough the work was rather bumpy – and in the local phrase ‘in and out like a dog pissing in the snow’.at in and out like a fiddler’s elbow, phr.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 36: Tarry, did ye to chance see Mrs. Callan’s ducks knocking about this evening?at knock about, v.1
Tarry Flynn (1965) 69: You could be the independentest man in Ireland. You could tell all the beggars to kiss your arse.at kiss someone’s arse, v.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 78: All the girls [...] were squat and, as the country phrase had it – ‘duck-arsed’.at -arsed, sfx
Tarry Flynn (1965) 105: Ah, dry up and don’t be making a barney balls of yourself.at make a barney balls of oneself (v.) under balls-up, n.
Tarry Flynn 231: ‘Jabus, that’s a dread,’ said Eusebius, ‘that bates the little dish as the fellow said.’.at beat the little dish (v.) under beat, v.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 94: Bedad, there’s someone coming in from the Big Road.at bedad!, excl.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 15: Be jabus! did you see her? [Ibid.] 231: ‘Jabus, that’s a dread,’ said Eusebius, ‘that bates the little dish as the fellow said.’.at bejabers!, excl.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 59: I wouldn’t like to think of you knocking around Dillon’s house, not that I’d ever believe you’d do anything, but you know the big-mouths that’s about this place.at bigmouth, n.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 30: What the bleddy hell are ye listening to women’s talk for?at bladdy, adj.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 160: We’d better try Flynn in the box before we chuck it.at box, n.1
Tarry Flynn (1965) 150: ‘Will you give us a breeze?’ Tarry screeched. But the mother was relentless.at breeze, n.1
Tarry Flynn (1965) 35: ‘How did you get on the day, Tarry?’ ‘Nearly finished.’ ‘Ye shouldn’t try to do a bull-dragging day. Isn’t there more days than years.’.at bull-dragging (adj.) under bull, n.1
Tarry Flynn (1965) 162: ‘I have to go out to loose a button,’ said Joe.at loose a button (v.) under button, n.1
Tarry Flynn (1965) 256: To be paying bills of laughter / And chaffy gossip in kind.at chaffy, adj.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 81: Mind you, Mary is no chicken. Only the day I was thinking that she’s within a kick of the arse of thirty.at no chicken under chicken, n.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 81: And mind you, Mary is no chicken.at no chicken under chicken, n.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 70: He had the sleeper ready to take away, had it over the paling and was going back for another – the greedy dog – when I snaffled it on him. Just for a cod, you know.at cod, n.5
Tarry Flynn (1965) 160: At this point the court adjourned in some consternation and a general confab took place.at confab, n.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 11: The white cow has a tear on her teat that’s a total dread.at dread, n.1
Tarry Flynn (1965) 105: Ah, dry up and don’t be making a barney balls of yourself.at dry up, v.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 78: All the girls, with the exception of Mary Callan, were squat, and as the country phrase had it ‘duck-arsed’.at duck-arsed (adj.) under duck, n.1
Tarry Flynn (1965) 34: Oh nobody can talk to you [...] if a person only opens their mouth ye ait the face off them.at eat one’s head off (v.) under eat, v.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 67: ‘The best turnips in the country,’ he said; ‘they’re butting a dread; some of them as thick as your thumb. They’re fierce turnips.’.at fierce, adj.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 33: ‘Fierce great weather, Molly,’ said Tarry.at fierce, adv.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 64: I say, there’s flaming great spuds. You must have shoved on the potash, no matter what you say.at flaming, adj.2
Tarry Flynn (1965) 22: ‘Everything’s game ball,’ Charlie said, and winked.at gameball, adj.
Tarry Flynn (1965) 232: He could tell by the bones in the back of Eusebius’ neck which moved like the hips of a gamy woman that his neighbour was a happy man.at gammy, adj.2
Tarry Flynn (1965) 105: I’m as well have a bit of gas while I can.at gas, n.1
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