1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 80: [The corner boy] is not as he has been so often mislabelled a peasant or a churl or a bog trotter. He is neither a yokel or hick.at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 104: You’ll hear people saying that fortune-telling is bunk.at bunk, n.2
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 80: I too was called a hick by clodhoppers who forsook the country for the metropolis.at clodhopper, n.
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 112: ‘I know now,’ said a Waterford man, an elderly commercial who likes to hop balls.at commercial, n.
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 11: If some may crib about forcing her into alcoholism I say to these to come and have a gander at the lovely chicks she hatched.at crib, v.5
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 143: The pub was always regarded as being relatively safe because it was so near the garda barracks. Anyway Canavan and Callaghan were ‘found on’.at found on, adj.
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 69: The most devastating of all blows in the common street confrontation was the Ringsend Uppercut. This was simply a kick between the legs.at Ringsend handshake, n.
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 10: Of course we all knew what the hot stuff was.at hot stuff, n.1
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 112: Looks were exchanged. We had heard them all and here was a span new one concocted by a Decies man.at span new, adj.
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 44: Should we prepare at all – only plug away until our time arrives?at plug, v.1
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 68: I seized him by the belt of his overcoat and allowed myself to be dragged out of an otherwise imponderable pucker.at pucker, n.
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 77: He received a rough and ready shave from the corpse dresser and his hair might have been racked as the saying goes.at rack, v.1
1991 J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 103: Give us out two vods dere Cha. We have plinty white.at vodders, n.