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[Ire] 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
[Ire] J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 104: You’ll hear people saying that fortune-telling is bunk.
at bunk, n.2
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 10: Of course we all knew what the hot stuff was.
at hot stuff, n.1
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] J.B. Keane Love Bites and Other Stories 103: Give us out two vods dere Cha. We have plinty white.
at vodders, n.
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