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(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 11: She was a gregarious, impulsive girl, with a northsider’s relish for ‘ballhopping’ (teasing). [Ibid.] 41: Go ’way, ye ballhopper.at ballhop (n.) under ball, n.1
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 11: She was a gregarious, impulsive girl, with a northsider’s relish for ‘ballhopping’ (teasing). [Ibid.] 41: Go ’way, ye ballhopper. (con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 18: Will you look at the white head on him. Hello, blondie, will you give us a birdie?at birdie, n.3
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 18: Will you look at the white head on him. Hello, blondie, will you give us a birdie?at blondie, n.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 75: We lit a ‘bona’.at boney, n.1
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 56: Get out of bed, ye caffler, and get down to school.at caffler, n.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 39: Sure they’re all saying she’s up in Dublin, in hospital [...] She is in my eye.at my eye(s)!, excl.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 116: Dave’s threat to ‘flake the backside off him’ if he didn’t get out of bed.at flake, v.1
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 114: Nobody wanted to be behind Whacker, convinced he had the mange [...] the spoon would give us ‘a fit of the gawks’.at gawks, the, n.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 73: The film was subtitled by shouts from the gallery. ‘He’s behind ye, ye flippin’ gowl.’.at gowl, n.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 9: Here’s a lop for a candy apple.at lop, n.2
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 24: I’m soaked. They’re me new anklets; me Mam will mobilise me.at mobilize, v.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 42: When she left I was crucified for being ‘passremarkable’. These women were the heart of the house.at passremarkable, adj.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 20: My mother had a ‘plank’ there, a secret stash of cash in a yellow teapot.at plank, n.1
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 42: Nan heaped the poppies, bursting out of their jackets, on his plate.at poppy, n.2
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 46: Past the Croppy Boy and add a ‘rocker’ to its mound of stones.at rocker, n.2
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 116: We wore knee-length scarlet socks [...] and a pair of black ‘rubber dollies.’.at rubber dollies (n.) under rubber, adj.
(con. 1950s) Maura’s Boy 72: Ye saucy scut.at scut, n.1
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