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The She-Gallant choose

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[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 15: I’ll catch him, I’ll clapper claw him.
at clapperclaw, v.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 16: If he comes down handsomely, I’ll let him go.
at come down, v.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 3: When I reflect upon my Emily’s beauty, I can’t wonder at his being caught; old Goat.
at goat, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 12: If I was married, I should think he smoak’d my horns.
at horn, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 15: That rascal coachman drove like Jehu.
at jehu, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 20: You’re rightly serv’d, for preferring the love of your pelf, to the [...] happiness of your child.
at pelf, n.
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 11: Phaw! pox on her rout.
at pox on —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 20: If I ever marry, may this foolish sconce of mine be adorn’d with a pair of horns.
at sconce, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 23: Since your [sic] sharing the blessing, I hope my spouse and I’ll come in for snacks.
at snack, n.1
[Ire] J. O’Keeffe The She-Gallant 2: An ould son of a whore that has one leg already in the grave.
at sonofabitch, n.
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