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Tell Me, Sean O’Farrell choose

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[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 18: We always called two poached eggs on toast ‘Adam and Eve on a Raft’ – a bare, sparse sort of meal.
at Adam and Eve, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 59: He roared ‘Since you became a civil servant you do feck-all only sit on your arse like the rest of them.’.
at feck-all, n.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 29: The adventures of Murt Finnegan and the Nigger Flynn, a pair of wide-awake tramps.
at wide-awake, adj.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 31: My father [...] hailed from a place at the back of God speed in the County Roscommon.
at back of God speed under back, adv.
[Ire] (con. 1920s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 52: The lads got off lightly and I was glad. They were taken advantage of by a fly-boy of a tinker.
at fly-boy, n.1
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 93: When, like myself, the old bus became more disabled, the family discussed what was to become of her.
at bus, n.2
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 60: There was another butty (friend) of yours.
at butty, n.1
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 34: It was called Chalk Sunday in some places because single people were marked with chalk by some joker – usually kneeling behind the person at mass.
at Chalk Sunday (n.) under chalk, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 57: I always had a special soft-spot for Our Lady. I never believed in the ‘craw-thumping’ religion, however.
at craw-thumping, adj.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 35: I will be pushing up daisies so divil a much good will it do me!
at push up (the) daisies, v.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 22: Silks were popular among females and each of them had one expensive piece of ‘finery’ for ‘dolling up’.
at doll up, v.
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 78: The Clane man got maggoty, mouldy, eejity and struck the earl with the red cap.
at eejit, adj.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 23: His forbidden fruit (Adam’s apple) was leppin’ with rage.
at forbidden fruit, n.
[Ire] (con. 1920s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 52: We swopped information on new varieties of outdoor tomatoes because I was dead set on making a success of growing the awkward gets.
at get, n.1
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 81: Taking advantage of the great number of Thomond-men lost in the battle the glick (wily) Desmonds demanded that one of theirs should assume the throne.
at glick, adj.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 15: J.J. was no daw.
at gobdaw, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 67: A few of us were gostering around the fire in his house.
at goster, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 54: ‘Why in the name of Jaysus would he want to be buried with his gateposts?’ was the remark of a ‘gulpin’ during the lunch-break.
at gulpin, n.
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 66: He provided livestock for his tenants and stopped money out of their pay each week to recoup the cost – an early example of the Cathleen Mavoureen (Hire-Purchase).
at kathleen mavourneen system (n.) under kathleen mavourneen, n.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 79: A big cleft appeared in the mound. He saw lobs (large quantities) of treasure within and went home for a bag to collect some.
at lob, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 78: The Clane man got maggoty, mouldy, eejity and struck the earl with the red cap.
at maggoty, adj.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 38: The schoolhouse was very old and couldn’t be heated by the sods of turf that the pupils brought each day, tied to schoolbags or under their oxters.
at oxter, n.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 88: Dixon hopped off. Away with him like a thief from a peeler.
at peeler, n.2
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 57: I resented those who ‘played up to’ the clergy too. Rogues and villains the half of them!
at play up to (v.) under play up, v.
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 60: If she heard you had stopped working, she shouted: ‘If you go sweep, sweep but if you go pooch, come down’.
at pooch, v.
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 66: The conclusion of such a recitation was greeted with calls of ‘More power to your elbow’.
at more power to your elbow under power, n.
[Ire] (con. 1910s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 38: We would retaliate again: Proddy, Proddy on the wall / Proddy, Proddy, going to fall.
at Proddy, n.
[Ire] (con. 1917) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 46: There was a pulpit-thumping missioner who stated that girls and boys walking out together were the curse of the parish.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[Ire] P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 21: ‘Where are you fellows going, without paying for your drinks,’ she called and she with a puss on her.
at puss, n.2
[Ire] (con. 1930s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 59: One morning a local lad struggled into Mass having been on the ran-tan all night.
at on the rantan under rantan, n.
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