1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 14: Dick, Tom, an’ Harry was welcome to sit there all day if they liked.at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 82: Don’t take the book by the cover. There’s many a swell of a girl has in her the makin’ of a ‘clart’.at clart, n.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 101: I sit and talk to the Kettle, and it never tells. No, it never clatters.at clatter, v.1
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 72: Sure, everybody knows what takes the lasses to star-gazers, cup-tossers, an’ the like; it’s just to know if they will get husbands!at cup-tosser (n.) under cup, n.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 93: Poor Ned was blin’, or, as they say up the country, ‘dark’, from his birth.at dark, adj.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 84: John was like a hen on a hot griddle.at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 51: Och, in troth now, Felix, ye’re always humbuggin’ me, so ye are.at humbug, v.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 115: We used to have quiltin’s an’ dances at the cross-roads, an’ rattlin’ good times at wakes an’ churnin’s.at quilting, n.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 14: Barney kept the best whisky in town. It was clear as water, no adulteration, min’ ye. No! it was the rale stuff.at real thing, the, n.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 74: An’ old ‘residenter’ said: ‘Jinny will laugh again when the spring comes round’.at residenter, n.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 124: To think that Kitty Morgan would make so free with my partner, the ill-mannered smut!at smut, n.
1928 L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 127: It was that strap Kitty, so I nivir let on I heard her.at strap, n.1