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Livin’ in Drumlister choose

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[Ire] W.F. Marshall ‘Ceilidh’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 4: And the decent neighbour men / Make they kailey as like as not / Till the wag is striking ten.
at wag-at-the-wall, n.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Sarah Ann’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 73: Jist let him keep his daughter, the hungry-lukin’ nur, / There’s jist as chancy weemin, in the countryside as her.
at chancy, adj.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Me an’ Me Da’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 32: An’ if me shirt’s a clatty shirt / The man to blame’s me da.
at clatty, adj.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Me an’ Me Da’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 33: Yo Bridget I went back, / An’ faced her for it that night week.
at face, v.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘The Runaway’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 76: Well, listen to this. / Yon hirplin’ gazaybo, yir father, / He’ll say nether ay, naw nor yis.
at gazabo, n.1
[Ire] W.F. Marshall ‘The Runaway’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 77: The oul’ da limpin’ out wi’ the pitchfork, / An’ the frens makin’ glam for the girl.
at glom, n.2
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘The Runaway’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 76: Sez I, ‘Wull ye come for a half-wan?’.
at half-one, n.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Me an’ Me Da’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 32: Well, I knowed two I thought I wud do, / But still I had me fears, / So I kiffled back an’ forrit / Between the two, for years.
at kiffle, v.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘The Runaway’ Livin’ in Drumlister 77: We got dhrunk, an’ we fell till the fightin’, [...] It wos prime how he leathered all roun’ him / An’ him jist as full as a shugh.
at leather, v.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Sarah Ann’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 73: Did ye iver know wee Robert? Well, he’s nothin’ but a wart, / A nearbegone oul’ divil with a wee black heart.
at near, adj.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Sunt Lachrymae Rerum’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 55: Away I went, / Content, / For he planked me down / A half-a-crown.
at plank down (v.) under plank, v.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘The Talking Flea’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 108: She’s in under a grassy mullan / That rises in carrigeen bog, / With a cannivaun bed to lie on / An’ aitin’ the best of prog.
at prog, n.1
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Me an’ Me Da’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 32: Keep far away from them that’s thin, / Their temper’s aisy riz.
at riz, adj.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘The Lad’ Livin’ in Drumlister 49: I knowed a scutcher that wrought in Shane, / He was a drunken scrub.
at scrub, n.1
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Proem’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 1: This Muse of mine has not supplied / Sob-stuff about my own inside.
at sob stuff (n.) under sob, n.1
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘The Talking Flea’ Livin’ in Drumlister 106: The woman, the more she was sonsy, / Was light of her fut on a flure.
at sonsy, adj.
[Ire] W.F Marshall ‘Sarah Ann’ in Livin’ in Drumlister 73: Did ye iver know wee Robert? Well, he’s nothin’ but a wart, / A nearbegone oul’ divil with a wee black heart.
at wart, n.
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