1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene xi: Joe-een Ryan [...] had his name bally-ragged to the country when he had to marry his filthy street-walker on a Saturday night.at ballyrag, v.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene v: Begobs says I to myself, the haemorroids must be in a state of turmoil.at begorra!, excl.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene xi: Does he want, bejabers, to get me sacked for nothing?at bejabers!, excl.
1969 T. Murphy A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene i: Heeding that hussy of a clotty of a plótha of a streeleen.at clotty, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene ii: I’ve had enough of the knockers and the craw-thumpers after four days in this place.at craw-thumper, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene ix: I’ll kick the daylights out of them!at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene v: But would I hell give the neighbours the satisfaction of seeing me with a stick.at did I...!, excl.
1969 T. Murphy A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene xi: You were a bright lad. Are you going the way of all feather-heads?at featherhead, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene vii: Routine me granny.at my granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene v: Late for work Monday; later for work Tuesday! That’s the good the high-ups is doing him!at high-up, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene xi: Bejaney-mack-tonight, I said to myself, get it out of here lively.at janey mack!, excl.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene v: Jesus, Mary and Joseph, isn’t it terrible!at Jesus, Mary and Joseph! (excl.) under Jesus, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene iii: Oh bejingoes!at jingo!, excl.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene vii: None of them had any truckin’ with diseased auld hens, with the pip or pox or whatever they had.at pip, n.1
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene vii: And none of them in later times did the quare thing to the huncyback girl in Clonshee, before they had to marry the horse-faced one for Ballinasloe side!at quare thing (n.) under quare, adj.
1969 T. Murphy A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene v: Sound, Miko. You won’t forget?at sound!, excl.
1969 T. Murphy A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene i: Heeding that hussy of a clotty of a plótha of a streeleen.at streeler, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene v: You have to keep knocking the odd old tumble out of them.at tumble, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene iv: Jimmy is going to the uni next autumn.at uni, n.
1969 T. Murphy Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene iii: An ould yoke of a mother, doing the film star on it.at yoke, n.1
1985 T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 43: Now it’s all bollocks talk about Protestants.at ballocks, n.
1985 T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 11: JJ was up in Daly’s earlier. On another batter.at batter, n.3
1985 T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 52: You didn’t bring a blondie home with you, Michael?at blondie, n.
1985 T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 24: JJ was a blow-in, a cute buff-sham from back there Caherlistrane-side.at blow-in, n.
1985 T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 21: You’re a bogman, Ryan.at bogman (n.) under bog, n.3
1985 T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 17: You’d be surprised at how dicked-up one can get.at dicked, adj.1
1985 T. Murphy Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 32: Not bad he says and the few quid a week my auld fella gives me.at old fellow, n.