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[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 92: Jackie was a little jenny-ass of a man with thin lips, a pointed nose and a pince-nez.
at jenny-ass, n.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 7: Nora came skeltering madly down the church. ‘Lord God!’ she cried, ‘The snivelling little caffler! I knew he’d do it! I knew he’d disgrace me!’.
at caffler, n.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 79: Her view was that poetry, like drink, was a thing you couldn’t have knocked out of you, and that the holy-all of it would be that Coleman would ruin the business.
at holy all(s) (n.) under holy, adj.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 131: [They] needed some respectable woman to put manners on them.
at put manners on (v.) under manners, n.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 14: ‘Hullo, my old flower,’ said one tall man, grinning at me.
at old flower (n.) under old, adj.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 66: We ranged from a clerical student with scruples to a roaring atheist.
at roaring, adj.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 41: Steady now, old scout!
at old scout (n.) under scout, n.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 25: You were shaping! You’re always showing off.
at shape, v.
[Ire] F. O’Connor Traveller’s Samples 66: ‘You take things to the fair, Dan,’ I said to him once. ‘All I ask [...] is that bloody idiots will keep their opinions to themselves.’.
at take to the fair (v.) under take, v.
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