1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 154: It’s the ashes bes on yer toes, an’ the ABC on yer shins with toastin’ them in the fire.at ABC, n.1
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 156: Biddy Melly tells me him an’ our Susie’s as thick as thieves.at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 140: Musha, bad scrant to the same Mason; he’s a plague.at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 27: ‘Bad cess to it for snuff,’ she said. ‘Sheila spilled half of the last one on me.’.at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 141: An’ Mary Manus is goin’ to keep Manus off the batter.at batter, n.3
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders 26: ‘Well, glory be to God,’ the mother exclaimed, ‘if that doesn’t beat the wee wheel.’.at beat the little dish (v.) under beat, v.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 29: ‘The devil take them for hens,’ Manus growled [...] ‘They’re only a botheration,’ Charlie said. ‘A botheration? They’re a curse!’.at botheration, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 131: The way ye clouted through them waves was clippin’.at clipping, adj.2
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 130: I thought Charlie Doogan’s bruscan was bad, but yours is the daddy of all. I never smelt nothing like it.at daddy, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 133: Another summer I fished in Portnoo, I was near torn to flitters with fleas.at flitter, v.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 132: Mush, ploid on ye, Manus, but yer clean gone! He’s fair light in the head smokin’ tay’.at gone, adj.1
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 144: Dirty gulpins of ducks, that I didn’t get an egg out of since I don’t know when.at gulpin, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 117: Stasia will be up in her hat. But what a freak photo of her!at up in one’s hat (adj.) under hat, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 100: When ye find women hookin’ men they never were given any licence to mix with, down the public street ...at hook, v.1
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 98: It’s a quare ould grin he had on him, an’ be me sowl, Biddy, nobody noticed any huff on yerself.at huff, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 126: ‘Oh, Mother of God, Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Charlie’s dead,’ Sally screamed.at Jesus, Mary and Joseph! (excl.) under Jesus, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 175: Manus was overjoyed to shelter the man that was ‘on his keeping’.at on one’s keeping under keeping, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 132: I’d be makin’ up to ye myself, if I was as young as some of the boys.at make up to (v.) under make, v.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 100: Arrah, damn on ye! it’s not the nerve to hoult a girl ye’d have herself, ye poor slat mara.at slat mara, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 188: Amn’t I the quare wan to be staggerin’ like this.at quare, adj.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders 98: A quare ould grin he had on him, an’ be me sowl, Biddy, nobody noticed any huff on yerself.at quare, adj.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 57: I’ve as sunsey a wee girl as is in the parish, God bless her.at sonsy, adj.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 84: Susan Manus made tea for them all, and she without knowing the joy Mary Doogan thought to take out of baking that flour and wetting that tea.at wet the tea leaves (v.) under tea, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 141: It’s because Neil is goin’ that yer Aunt Mary is goin’, for she knows fine he’ll go on the tare. An’ Mary Manus is goin’ to keep Manus off the batter.at go (out) on a/the tear (v.) under tear, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 147: ‘Isn’t he a picture?’ she said. ‘Perfect. And he’s a tiger for dash, I’ll swear.’.at tiger for (n.) under tiger, n.
1927 P. O’Donnell Islanders (1933) 132: She used to wear a hat, an’ was a terrible toff when I married her.at toff, n.