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[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 55: Where’s the banty?
at bantling, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 19: I’ll give you a great big birdie.
at birdie, n.3
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 99: Quit your whinging [...] What are you blerting about?
at blart, v.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 151: I’m going to wash that delph on the shelves up there; it’s bogging.
at bog, v.1
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 40: Ah-oh! There’s stepmother’s breath out there.
at stepmother’s breath, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 153: I hope it’ll stop all this casting-up from my father.
at cast up (v.) under cast, v.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 20: Don’t act the cod, Tom.
at cod, n.2
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 149: But all codding aside, that score you threw [...] the like of it will never be seen again.
at codding, n.
[Ire] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day n.p.: ‘Ah, I never seen such a pack of coldrifed craythurs in my life,’ Neilly blurted [BS].
at coldrifed, adj.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 34: Hello, johnny! Dambut is it yourself?
at damn-but! (excl.) under damn!, excl.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 56: So poor old Buck Jones has bit the dust.
at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 10: What kind of an ould mad eegot is that Pachy fellow, anyway?
at eejit, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 152: ‘Many out?’ ‘It’s packed! You missed the gaff. The preacher got threw in.’ .
at gaff, n.2
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 30: Here, come on, juldee!
at jildi, v.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 119: He’s out juking somewhere.
at juke, v.1
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 98: You can’t lift us! That fellow started it.
at lift, v.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 10: God knows where those two ligs have got to this time.
at lig, n.2
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 11: ‘There you are,’ he cried. ‘Sixty-five in a loc of days and as supple’ – a plocker of coughing seized him.
at lock, n.2
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 48: Petey Devlin and the boys are away to the pics.
at pic, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 11: ‘There you are,’ he cried. ‘Sixty-five in a lock of days and as supple’ – a plocker of coughing seized him. [Ibid.] 37: Change into these old things [...] before you catch a plocker that you’ll carry to the grave.
at plocker, n.
[Ire] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day n.p.: They emerged again onto the footpaths, carrying four penny, brown paper pokes of chips .
at poke, n.2
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 132: I’ll tell your father, you wee skitter ye.
at skitter, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 110: ‘Don’t answer me back, or I’ll stiffen you,’ Kitty shouted. ‘You good-for-nothing looking craythur!’.
at stiffen, v.1
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 42: Lord, they’re terrible people for music, the Murphys. [...] Just like them to sit there playing and singing with the water up round the door.
at terrible, adj.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 10: Many’s the time he had seen the two of them over in her house, drinking her aleplant, and sitting down to a tightener of potatoes and brown-gravy.
at tightener, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 28: Shemie, you better go home with your Uncle Tommy. Your mother will be up the walls .
at up the wall (adj.) under wall, n.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 28: I’ve a good mind to warm your lug for you, boy.
at warm someone’s ear (v.) under warm, v.
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 11: Wait’ll I see if I have an odd wing on me somewhere. Here! He pressed a penny into each of the boys’ hands.
at wing, n.2
[US] J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 79: Some of them may be a wee bit damp. [...] He opened the Woodbine boxes. ‘The ould Woods were lucky, eh? Not a drop.’.
at Woods, n.
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