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Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black choose

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[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 159: Lingering ever near a pub, they would seldom dream of grub, / Save their nightly table d’hote of ‘wan and wan’.
at one-and-one, n.1
[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 158: The top-line double turn, Mick Maguire and Jamesy Byrne, / Were buttys since the days they mitched from school.
at butty, n.1
[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 159: Now Jamesy shut your gob, t’was blooming rotten job / To take that barefaced Johnnie for a Cod.
at cod, n.2
[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 159: Now Jamesy shut your gob, t’was blooming rotten job / To take that barefaced Johnnie for a Cod.
at shut (up) one’s gob (v.) under gob, n.1
[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 158: Of guttys, there were two.
at guttie, n.
[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 158: The top-line double turn, Mick Maguire and Jamesy Byrne, / Were buttys since the days they mitched from school.
at mitch, v.
[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 159: That outfit ought to sell.
at outfit, n.1
[Ire] C. Mac Garvey Green Line and the Little Yellow Road in Mac Thomáis (1982) 159: Buried deep in discontent, for they hadn’t got a cent, / And they knew not where or how to raise the wind.
at raise the wind (v.) under raise, v.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 106: The Boss, Gaffer, Head Buck Cat and The Chief Bottle Washer, all of them wore white coats.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 109: Pat sold everything from bread, Maggie Ryan, butter, [...] candles and pot herbs.
at maggy ann, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 90: Have yis forgotten when we Jackeens saved the harvest for yis? Bedad we did.
at bedad!, excl.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 136: He wanted me to take him out to Dalkey Hill to pick ‘blackers’.
at blackers (n.) under black, adj.
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 97: They were all wide awake, filling their clay pipes and puffing like blazes.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 52: He swore like blue hell.
at blue, adj.5
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 106: I’ve known cops by the name of [...] Blue Bottle.
at bluebottle, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 152: All through the pictures the usher [...] roared at us to keep quiet. ‘Shut up yous animals, shut up yous blackguards, shut up yous bowsies.’.
at bowsie, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 22: Two free briefs for a dance in the Castle Ballroom.
at brief, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 129: I’ll never forget the brutal week I had on my half dollar.
at brutal, adj.
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 121: We tried to bunk into the barracks as the gates opened to let out the horses.
at bunk, v.5
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 94: Butts on ya a Mack?
at butts on (you)! (excl.) under butt, n.1
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 48: He was a devil for plucking out the eye and offering it to chisellers on the palm of his dirty hand.
at chiseller, n.
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 21: No, this mot was class and so was her mother.
at class, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 96: Hey Mack, any fags, any weeds, any butts, any stabbers, any coffin nails?
at coffin nail, n.2
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 10: The selling, the crack, the good manners, the friendliness.
at crack, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt Is Black 35: That other fella, ‘Teddy Boy’, who brought in the D.A. style – the duck’s arse.
at D.A., n.
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt Is Black 133: Now here is the daddy of it all!
at daddy, n.
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 26: Some priests were real dingers at giving out ashes. Dead straight, right in the centre, a real professional job.
at dinger, n.1
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 72: Hush puppies, Doc Martins [sic], cowboy boots, desert boots.
at docs, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s–50s) E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 129: I’ll never forget the brutal week I had on my half dollar.
at half-dollar, n.1
[Ire] E. Mac Thomáis Janey Mack, Me Shirt is Black 98: Craven A cigarettes were made specially to prevent sore throats and the David Allen bill boards had a picture of an opera singer having a few drags before going on stage to sing his final aria.
at drag, n.1
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