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(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 30: Every townland had on everything a different way of going and a different way of living. — Boys-o-boys — boys-o-boys.at boys-a-boys!, excl.
(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 30: Every townland had on everything a different way of going and a different way of living. — Boys-o-boys — boys-o-boys. Malachi Horan Remembers 67: What with her being in such demand about here, she got entirely above herself.at get above oneself (v.) under above oneself, adj.
(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 39: As mad as a bag full of cats in a bed of briars was Lanky Tom Callaghan when he heard the news.at mad as..., adj.
Malachi Horan Remembers 104: But, sure, old Shep, bad cess to her, has gone and had a litter of pups in the bellows.at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 15: He would wear a ‘trusty,’ or as you would call it a cotamore – the name the people had on it hereabout was a ‘bang-up’. This was a frieze coat that reached the ankles and which had attatched to it a cape to the wrists.at bang-up, n.1
Malachi Horan Remembers 122: When Spooner was able to hear himself speak he barged Black Malachi. Like a cartload of tinkers he was.at barge, v.
Malachi Horan Remembers 118: Every man in form with a drink below his belt to keep out the fog.at under one’s belt under belt, n.
Malachi Horan Remembers 51: ‘A binder’, the last drink before going home, so called from the last sod of turf forced into a creel to bind the load.at binder, n.1
(con. 1850s) Malachi Horan Remembers 28: She was an odd body. Always ready to be telling you about her own self, like the other women would be telling you of their neighbours.at body, n.
(con. 1850s) Malachi Horan Remembers 23: ‘There’s Him that will punish you better than the law.’ He warned his men: ‘Don’t burst or tell.’.at burst, v.1
Malachi Horan Remembers 103: There was one of these men in it as was the comicalest card ever you clapt an eye on.at card, n.2
(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 14: When he dressed himself he would wear the felt half-tall hat which was known here as ‘a nailer’s chimney’ (Another name for [it] was a ‘caroline hat’).at caroline, n.
Malachi Horan Remembers 54: The slaughter on that line beat all, what with asses, cattle, goats, and what not. It was a caution.at caution, n.
Malachi Horan Remembers 113: But the English never like to hear of a man of ours being cock-o’-the-walk.at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
(con. 1850s) Malachi Horan Remembers 24: She was galloped once from the farm at Jobstown to Flood’s Inn [...] all to fetch her master a bottle of whiskey. She was the daisy!at daisy, n.
(con. 1880s) Malachi Horan Remembers 119: The guard lept down from the dickey and opened the door.at dicky, n.3
Malachi Horan Remembers 95: There was a woman beyont and she after getting him to make her a churn [...] She was fit to be tied when she found it leaking.at fit to be tied under fit to..., phr.
(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 39: ‘Lanky Tom Callaghan of the Hurley Foot’ was the name they had on him. He had a club-foot, you see [...] He used to use the hurley-foot as a hook to trip his man.at hurley foot, n.
(con. c.1900s) Malachi Horan Remembers 146: He tried to brazen it out. But I seen his ‘forbidden fruit’ and it lepping in his neck.at forbidden fruit, n.
(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 26: Swearing like good ones, they up with some harrow chains, and these they stretched across the road.at good ’un, n.
(con. 1850s) Malachi Horan Remembers 28: Gor-a-war, you would have thought by the look of her that she was carrying a cow.at gor!, excl.
(con. 1850s) Malachi Horan Remembers 23: The Waters gave the grabbers such a shocking beating that sorra the man of them but felt glad to get out of that field alive.at grabber, n.
Malachi Horan Remembers 87: A boy on gur that was given a candle to hold was shaking with the fright that was on him.at on gur under gur, n.
(con. 1860s) Malachi Horan Remembers 73: I would never be passing his house after but he and his wife would be running out to the fence to give me the hard word.at hard word, n.
Malachi Horan Remembers 86: Talking of Mathers and mares reminds me of the hobble that caught Father Dunne.at hobble, n.
Malachi Horan Remembers 10: Donocha jumped for his pike which he kept handy, and before you could speak they were at it – slash and cut, cut and slash.at at it under it, n.1
Malachi Horan Remembers 70: But one day out he juked and nobody the wiser.at juke, v.1
(con. 1850s) Malachi Horan Remembers 90: I’m fairly nackered this time.at knackered, adj.
Malachi Horan Remembers 79: Didn’t I know it was a judgement, and but for somebody’s prayer I was knackered.at knackered, adj.
(con. 1850–60s) Malachi Horan Remembers 39: ‘Lanky Tom Callaghan of the Hurley Foot’ was the name they had on him.at lanky, n.
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