c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 221: With what three commonplace gentlemen did this attempt of his suggest he was confusing me? Tom, Dick and Harry.at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 57: As happy as Larry lookin’ at them.at ...Larry under happy as..., adj.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; [...] merry; well on.at well away, adj.
c.1940–5 in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 68: There is nothing so bad as a bad bag.at bag, n.1
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 231: Anybody that can play a concerto on a piano deserves more than five bar anny day of the week.at bar, n.1
c.1940–5 in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 34: So help me, I am a crane-driver from Drogheda, and I have not opened my beak since I came in tonight.at beak, n.2
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 73: Your man was puttin up a beaver!at beaver, n.1
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 315: In plain English, this means, ‘Bona fides are the standby of the State’.at bona fide, n.
c.1940–5 in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 230: He was the best man in the world for clever honest fun, for sneering at bores, bluffs and bowsies.at bowsie, n.
c.1940–5 M. na gCopaleen Best of Myles (1968) 53: Two of the coolest customers I ever seen, didn’t give a damn about us although we went near enough to brain them with the oars.at brain, v.
c.1940–5 in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 61: Begob the suspense was brutal. BRUTAL.at brutal, adj.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 278: Superimpose on all that the miasma of ironic usage [...] Irish bullery and Paddy Whackery.at bull, n.2
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; fluthered; canned.at canned, adj.
c.1940–5 in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 48: Begob here’s me ’bus. Cheers!at cheers!, excl.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 46: Work and walking around swallying pints and chawin’ the rag at the street corner.at chew the rag, v.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 328: The illiterate stupid ... clodbrained ... half-witted ... platter-faced ... cuckoo.at clod-brained (adj.) under clod, n.1
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; [...] cock-eyed; cross-eyed.at cock-eyed, adj.2
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 15: I could distinctly hear snatches of talk like ‘never sober,’ [...] ‘half the stuff cogged from other people’.at cog, v.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 15: I could distinctly hear snatches of talk like ‘never sober,’ ‘literary corner-boy’ [...] ‘cool calculated cheek’: and so on.at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 36: Picture the Covey as an old man of seventy.at covey, n.2
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 245: The last time I tried to crash a show was in the old Electric there in Mart street.at crash, v.
c.1940–5 in ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 45: The Lord knows what the unfortunate men signed away, crooked drunk inside in the back snug.at crooked, adj.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; [...] cock-eyed; cross-eyed; crooked.at cross-eyed, adj.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 101: The curate behind the bar has opened his face into so enormous a yawn that the tears can be heard dripping into the pint he is pulling.at curate, n.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 235: But of course your man Shaw digs with the other foot.at dig with the other foot (v.) under dig with the...foot, v.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 233: The actual symphony concert range is a strictly ding-dong limited list for a kick-off.at ding-dong, adj.2
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 335: I will do for him, gorblimey, if I have to swing for it!at do for, v.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 241: The writing crowd, it is well known, are only a parcel of dud czechs and bohemian gulls.at dud, adj.
c.1940–5 ‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 249: They are the things of childhood and together with the Meccano jersey in purest jaeger, the cogged ekkers and the consumption of neat lemonade.at eccer, n.