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The Butcher Boy choose

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[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy 88: He looked at me proud as a dog with two cocks.
at pleased as a dog with two cocks, phr.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 28: We’re an awful crowd!
at awful, adj.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 78: The bogmen were raging. I don’t see why she’s appearing to you, they said.
at bogman (n.) under bog, n.3
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 16: By God Father that’s a cold one I said rubbing the hands real bogman style.
at bogman (n.) under bog, n.3
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 7: Yee ha! I said and bombed off out to the border shop.
at bomb, v.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 138: I’m the man that would slip the boy in there double quick!
at boy, the, n.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 33: Carrying on with her like a schoolboy halfwit. The whole town knows that too, made a cod of himself with her.
at cod, n.2
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy 154: Hey, I shouts, cunthooks!
at cunt-hooks (n.) under cunt, n.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 4: Ma pulled me downstairs and gave me the mother and father of a flaking.
at flake, v.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 38: Then I ran like fuck.
at like fuck, adv.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 9: That was a good one I thought.
at good one, n.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy 87: You needn’t think I’m afraid of you, Mr. Head-The-Ball Brady.
at head-the-ball (n.) under head, n.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy 191: Go on you humpy bastard! I shouted after him.
at humpy, adj.2
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy 107: He heard them saying in the jakes Brady was going to batter the master.
at jakes, n.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 138: I’d give her the johnny and no mistake.
at johnny, n.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 33: He was always the same, from the minute we were dumped in that Belfast kip.
at kip, n.1
[Ire] P McCabe Butcher Boy 153: Another kiphouse with a hundred windows.
at kiphouse (n.) under kip, n.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 138: I’d give her the johnny and no mistake.
at and no mistake under mistake, n.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 32: Do you think any of them believe that shite-talk you’ve been going on with all night?
at shite, adj.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy 174: I think I must have looked a bit of a sketch with the stew and all on my good jacket and the smell of brock.
at sketch, n.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 43: Da ate pilchards when he went on a skite.
at on a/the skite under skite, n.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 2: Some snottery-nosed young gawk.
at snottery, adj.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 39: Tinny voice the mayor squared up to the alien leader and told him he’d never get away with it.
at square up, v.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 16: They must have thought I was going to stick them for a few bob tax as well.
at stick someone for (v.) under stick, v.
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 15: Dear dear aren’t you a ticket Francie? they said.
at ticket, n.1
[Ire] P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 80: Off he went in the rain and then back to his dingy old room just him and the cat and not a tosser between them.
at tosser, n.2
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