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My Oul’ Town choose

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[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 17: ‘You’ll be late for Mass, Mike.’ ‘Bedad,’ sis Mike.
at bedad!, excl.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 62: We would sit an’ have a confab over oul’ times.
at confab, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 93: Poor Ned was blin’, or, as they say up the country, ‘dark’, from his birth.
at dark, adj.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 103: But I got an eye-opener.
at eye-opener, n.1
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 51: Och, in troth now, Felix, ye’re always humbuggin’ me, so ye are.
at humbug, v.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 50: I’m jist about kilt walkin’ it ivir since.
at kilt, adj.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 114: Och! divil a peeler I seen, bad luck go with them.
at peeler, n.2
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 74: An’ old ‘residenter’ said: ‘Jinny will laugh again when the spring comes round’.
at residenter, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Mackay My Oul’ Town 127: It was that strap Kitty, so I nivir let on I heard her.
at strap, n.1
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