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[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 19: Och, Dandy, ye’re a blether; but I forgive ye, for ye’re too ould to take any notice of.
at blether, n.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 71: Man, he was the best crack ivir I heerd!
at crack, n.1
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 29: Ye must have a drop of the cratur with us afore ye go.
at drop of the creature (n.) under creature, the, n.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 107: The stone struck Denis and he gave a great yell. ‘Divil’s cure t’ye,’ sis I.
at devil’s cure! (excl.) under devil, n.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 16: Harry, sitting on the ‘dickey,’ did not know what was up.
at dicky, n.3
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 114: ‘D’ye think, Thomas, wud Miss O’Hara ‘face?’’ said John [...] ‘Ye know as well as me she’s long past her market.’.
at face, v.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 109: Now there was a lump of a hussy [...] a far-out friend of Peter’s wife, lived in the house with them.
at far out, adj.1
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 104: ‘D’ye min’ the night of the big win’, Thomas?’ asked John McCunningham. ‘Fags, I think I do,’ replied Thomas.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 18: Dandy Rogan, another popular jarvey, drove the mail-car from Newry to Kilkeel.
at jarvey, n.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 19: Nothin’ at all, me jewel.
at jewel, n.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 53: We have a ‘brave lock’ of cabbages in the garden.
at lock, n.2
[Ire] L. MacKay Mourne Folk 71: He tould us a yarn about an ould fella that went to his chapel. I think it was a Methody chapel.
at Methody, adj.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 106: I cud see nothin’; it was a mortial dark night; but just then at Glenoughlan school schoolhouse the moon came out of the clouds.
at mortal, adv.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 109: This hussy had a notion of Peter’s son, but Peter’s son was courtin’ another girl.
at notion, n.
[Ire] L. Mackay Mourne Folk 79: I remember he ‘palmed’ off a piece of cloth to Thomas [...] That piece of cloth proved a white elephant. The tailor would not make it up; it was perfect shoddy, he said.
at palm, v.
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