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[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Things Said in my Ear Ring’ Hair of the Dogma (1989) 88: Hardly a word appearing under his pseudonym in the Irish Times is written by himself. To use a witticism, every dog and divil in the country writes it.
at every dog and devil (n.) under every, adj.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Bad Humour’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 95: That class of talk was excitin’ ME, crippled with corns all me life and mister-me-friend this doc standing there as bould as brazen brass tellin’ me I can spend sixteen hours a day behind this counter.
at mister-me-friend, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘City Haul’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 69: They are night and day besieged by the ‘elected representatives’ to get jobs for their go-boys.
at go-boy (n.) under go, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘The Paw-Nay Injun’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 86: I gev myself a dose of moorphya that I got off a hop-off-me-thumb of a lascar guttie in Poart Sad.
at guttie, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘In Darkest Ireland’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 114: Fussy as a hen in a hot girdle.
at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘This P.E.N.’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 171: The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at a crossroads.
at mind mice at a/the crossroads (v.) under mouse, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Standing a Loan’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 64: ‘Sairtantly,’ the curate said, taking the cheque and walking up with it to the ‘piana’ (as cash registers are called).
at piano, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘In Hospital’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 61: I heard Mrs Paw-nay confide to a shawly visitor.
at shawlie, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘The Other Way’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 54: He had one gear which would propel the car forward at a spanking 4 m.p.h.
at spanking, adj.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Public Money’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 79: The fruits of this exorbitant fare structure are channelled off to subsidise the trips of the turnip-snaggers to the fields.
at turnip-snagger (n.) under turnip, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Natotion’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 75: But there was sacred holy melia murder about it afterwards.
at melia murder!, excl.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Nescience’ Hair of the Dogma (1989) 59: He has cogged the whole thing out of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
at cog, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Nescience’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 60: The other big [...] thing about cogging is that the great majority of coggers are incapable of discharging this simple chore accurately.
at cogger, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ ‘Fossilanguage’ in Hair of the Dogma (1989) 80: I have been looking at a little book [...] it is by an American, Gelett Burgess, and deals with ‘bromides’.
at bromide, n.
[Ire] Ragni & Rado Hair 43: He put out his hand and said: ‘Lay me five, man, I’m free like a cockroach.’.
at slip someone five (v.) under five, n.2
[Ire] Ragni & Rado Hair 🎵 My Mother Call ’Em Lilies.
at lily, n.
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