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[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 54: Sure you don’t think the Mishis would be rowlin’ on the flure there wid you, dhrunk as a pig.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 31: ‘Tare an’ ouns!’ roared Murphy.
at tare an’ ouns!, excl.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 47: ‘Oh, thunder and lightning!’ growled the doctor.
at thunder and lightning!, excl.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 317: His tongue was ‘as rough as a rat’s back’ while his companions [...] theirs were as ‘dry as a lime-burner’s wig.’.
at ...a badger’s arse under rough as..., adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 64: Bad scran to you, you unlooky hangin’ bone thief!
at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 145: ‘Come here! you baggage!’ he cried to Augusta.
at baggage, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 113: The certainty of the fury of O’Grady [...] attendant on his being bamboozled.
at bamboozle, v.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 247: Andy indeed! – out o’ place, and without a bawbee to bless himself with?
at baubee, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 245: This was a degraded clergyman, known in Ireland under the title of ‘couple-beggar,’ who is ready to perform irregular marriages on urgent occasions [...] He witnessed the marriage ceremony performed by the ‘couple beggar’.
at couple-beggar, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 291: The lord chief justice always goes to bed, they say, with six tumblers o’ potteen under his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 120: I hope you have not blabbed much about our affairs.
at blab, v.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 289: Associated with these worthies were a couple of ill-conditioned country blackguards, who, for the sake of a bottle of whisky, would keep company with Old Nick himself.
at blackguard, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 322: You dirty bosthoon.
at bosthoon, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 24: ‘Bother!’ said Tom.
at bother!, excl.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 350: The more startling the bouncers he told, the more successful were his anecdotes [...] though they all voted him the greatest liar they ever met.
at bouncer, n.1
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 181: Miss Riley gave a reproachful look and shrug at the vulgar mention of a ‘fi’penny bit’, which Murphy purposely said to shock her ‘Brummagem gentility’.
at Brummagem, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 88: Just wait, my buck.
at buck, n.1
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 40: Reilly the butcher has two or three capital dogs, and there’s a wicked mastiff below stairs, and I’ll send for my ‘buffer,’ and we’ll have some spanking sport.
at bufe, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 115: Duck a taxman or harry a bum.
at bum, n.2
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 334: Ratty was not deficient in the use of his ‘bunch of fives,’ hit hard for his size, and was very agile.
at bunch of fives, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 130: She was a little cantankerous cat and a dirty tell-tale.
at cat, n.1
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 41: The Man [...] dashed into the hall, stabbed the porter who attempted to stop him, made a chevy down the south side of Leicester-square.
at make a chevy (v.) under chevy, n.1
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 248: ‘Take that, you owld faggot!’ cried Matty, as she shook Mrs Rooney’s tributary claret from the knuckles [...] and wiped her hands in her apron.
at claret, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 149: The old cock is not a bad hand at it.
at cock, n.3
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 24: ‘That’s right, my cock,’ said he to Murtough.
at cock, n.2
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 323: Tell me the worst at once, – is she non compos?
at non compos, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 306: The most ordinary crack-brain sometimes chooses to sport in the regions of sanity.
at crackbrain, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 301: Instead of displaying that alacrity so universal in Ireland of sharing the ‘creature’ with a new comer, the men only pointed to the bottle.
at creature, the, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 73: Nance is nice and Biddy’s biddable, and Kitty’s cute.
at cute, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Handy Andy 253: A jailor, did I say – by dad.
at dad, n.1
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