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[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 6: Blur-an-ages, how kem you to know about my goose?
at tare an’ ages!, excl.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 157: ‘Tare and ouns!’ says I.
at tare an’ ouns!, excl.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 105: Bad scram to you, you thick-headed vagabone.
at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories xi: I trust that such [...] maledictions, as ‘bad cess to you,’ will not be considered very offensive.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 192: That’s the way she wint an ballyraggin’ him.
at ballyrag, v.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 159: By gor, that bangs Banagher, and all the world knows Banagher bangs the divil.
at beat Bannagher (v.) under Bannagher, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 159: Maybe we won’t get a good bellyful before long.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 224: I’d be long sorry to let sitch a mallet-headed bog-throtter as yourself take a dirty advantage o’ me.
at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 248: The Dutchman has a big but [sic] / Full of gin.
at butt, n.1
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 248: The inference is as clear as ditchwater.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 9: ‘Oh, by dad,’ says Saint Kavin.
at dad, n.1
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 139: The dickens a room I ever kem across afore.
at dickens, the, phr.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 187: Throwin’ up his little finger, I suppose?* *Getting drunk.
at letting the finger ride the thumb too often under finger, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 191: ‘How do I know that, you flag-hoppin’ jade,’ says he.
at flag-hopper (n.) under flag, n.5
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 105: ‘Divil mend them, granny,’ shouted Jimmy with a laugh of idiotic delight.
at granny, n.1
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 190: Oh, the hangin’ bone villain!
at hanging, adj.1
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 193: ‘Hell’s bells attind your berrin,’ says they, ‘you vagabone.’.
at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 240: Such a jaw-breaker and peace-breaker as transubstantiation.
at jawbreaker, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 10: And with that, my jewel, she tuk to her heels.
at jewel, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 8: ‘By Jaiminee,’ says King O’Toole.
at by jiminy! (excl.) under jiminy!, excl.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 13: As if he was a lump iv a gossoon.
at lump, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 224: I’d be long sorry to let sitch a mallet-headed bog-throtter as yourself take a dirty advantage o’ me.
at malletheaded, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 168: ‘Oh then millia murther!’ says Paddy, ‘what’ll become of me at all.’.
at melia murder!, excl.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 188: I knew the villain was mulvathered.
at mulvathered (adj.) under mulvather, v.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 187: Bad cess to you, you pot-walloppin’ varmint.
at pot-walloping, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 155: More power to your elbow, Paddy, my boy.
at more power to your elbow under power, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 40: Sure the sojer thought it was a quare throut that couldn’t be briled.
at quare, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 248: The munseers drinks port / To the divil I pitch such rotgut.
at rotgut, n.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 217: You’re a sad dog – worse than Larry Lanigan.
at sad dog (n.) under sad, adj.
[Ire] S. Lover Legends and Stories 158: Oh, by gor, the butther’s comin’ out o’ the stirabout.
at stir-about (n.) under stir, v.
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