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[Ire] ‘Brogue and my Blarney and Botherin’ Ways’ in Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 5: With my tongue and my blarney and botherin’ ways. / Five sweethearts I’ve got.
at blarney, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Day that Paddy was Breeched’ Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 2: When breeches I put on, / The gossoons all did scan, / Saying, ‘Pat, before your mother, / By dads! you’ll be a man’.
at dad, n.1
[Ire] ‘Dandy Pat’ in Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 6: I am the boy called Dandy Pat, Dandy Pat.
at dandy, adj.
[Ire] ‘Dandy Pat’ in Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 6: I am from Old Ireland, but what of that, I’m Pat the Dandy O.
at dandy, n.2
[Ire] ‘Blarney’ in Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 5: That’s a little bit of clerical blarney. Flattery, gammon and blarney.
at gammon, n.2
[Ire] ‘An Iligant Wake’ Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 7: Silence! Pat Doyle, I’ll run a sod o’ turf in your gob if you don’ hould your tongue.
at gob, n.1
[Ire] ‘The Day that Paddy was Breeched’ Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 2: For soon I’ll take a wife — / To do it long I’ve itch’d [...] More power to your small clothes, / And Ireland too, I say; While a shot she’s got in locker, / Sure she never will say die.
at it, n.1
[Ire] ‘Lannigan’s Ball’ in Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 5: Myself got a lick from big Phelim McHugh, / But soon I replied to his kind introduction, / And kicked up a terrible Phillabaloo.
at kick up, v.
[Ire] ‘The Day that Paddy was Breeched’ in Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 2: More power to your small clothes, / And Ireland too, I say; While a shot she’s got in locker, / Sure she never will say die.
at more power to your elbow under power, n.
[Ire] ‘Ould Irish Stew’ in Yankee Paddy Comic Song Book 2: Wid the mate, the onions and praties, / Hurroo for the ould Irish Stew.
at pratie, n.
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