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An Only Child (1970) 115: I am a natural collaborationist; like Dolan’s ass I go a bit of the road with everybody.at dolan’s ass, n.
An Only Child (1970) 115: I am a natural collaborationist; like Dolan’s ass I go a bit of the road with everybody. An Only Child (1970) 38: I blasted him for not wiring for me.at blast, v.1
An Only Child (1970) 102: The bobby was so stunned at being cheeked by a small spectacled boy.at bobby, n.1
An Only Child (1970) 13: Oh, listen to George Crosbie, the dirty little caffler!at caffler, n.
An Only Child (1970) 35: At that point only did he give in – ‘cave in’ better describes what really happened.at cave in (v.) under cave, v.
An Only Child (1970) 60: Kathleen and Nan chaffed her about her young man.at chaff, v.
An Only Child (1970) 103: As a protector of the weak, I was never worth a damn.at damn, n.
An Only Child (1970) 79: Though wages were bad and jobs uncertain, they did bring in the regular dibs.at dibbs, n.
An Only Child (1970) 63: He was a rattlepate and never in time for anything.at rattle-head, n.
An Only Child (1970) 148: Father [...] was full of local pride, and ready to take on any misguided foreigner or Dublin jackeen who was not prepared to admit the superiority of Cork over all other cities.at jackeen, n.
An Only Child (1970) 101: Everything would go well [...] till I said something wrong or used a word that no one understood, and then the whole group jeered me, and called me ‘Molly’ (our word for sissy).at molly, n.1
An Only Child (1970) 23: I hid under the kitchen table, yelling bloody murder.at holler (bloody) murder (v.) under murder, n.
An Only Child (1970) 96: They said I was mad or that I was ‘shaping’ (the Cork word for swanking).at shape, v.
An Only Child (1970) 33: I hated the very sight of that shawl [...] it meant an immediate descent in the social scale from the ‘hatties’ to the ‘shawlies’ – the poorest of the poor.at shawlie, n.
Only Child (1970) 78: Praying was what the natives did when there was nothing to eat in the house, instead of going after the sky pilots with horse, foot, and artillery.at skypilot (n.) under sky, n.1
An Only Child (1970) 64: The kind, bookish man she finally married was not the sort to make smithereens of anyone.at smithereens, n.
An Only Child (1970) 61: He gave great stag parties, and after them the men had to be carried up to bed.at stag party (n.) under stag, adj.
An Only Child (1970) 77: Steve worked on a tub called the Hannibal.at tub, n.1
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