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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
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. (con. 1930s) 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.
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.
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.
(con. 1920s) 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
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
(con. 1930s) Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 60: There was another butty (friend) of yours.at butty, n.1
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
(con. 1930s) 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.
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.
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.
(con. 1930s) Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 78: The Clane man got maggoty, mouldy, eejity and struck the earl with the red cap.at eejit, adj.
Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 23: His forbidden fruit (Adam’s apple) was leppin’ with rage.at forbidden fruit, n.
(con. 1920s) 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
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.
Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 15: J.J. was no daw.at gobdaw, n.
(con. 1930s) Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 67: A few of us were gostering around the fire in his house.at goster, n.
(con. 1930s) 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.
(con. 1930s) 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.
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
(con. 1930s) Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 78: The Clane man got maggoty, mouldy, eejity and struck the earl with the red cap.at maggoty, adj.
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.
Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 88: Dixon hopped off. Away with him like a thief from a peeler.at peeler, n.2
(con. 1930s) 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.
(con. 1930s) 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.
(con. 1930s) 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.
(con. 1910s) Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 38: We would retaliate again: Proddy, Proddy on the wall / Proddy, Proddy, going to fall.at Proddy, n.
(con. 1917) 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.
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
(con. 1930s) 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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