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Dinny on the Doorstep choose

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[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 27: The young Dorans [...] derived no small enjoyment from watching what was happening within sight of their airy day-nursery.
at airy, n.1
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 214: Not that Brigit didn’t resent her bruises as well as the torn-out locks of hair, rent from her young head during the course of what she described to Dinny as ‘the father and mother of a row!’.
at father (and mother) of..., n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 83: So they know not to annoy her or give any back-talk.
at back-talk, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 161: Well, here you are again [...] turning up like a bad halfpenny!
at bad halfpenny (n.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 158: Stir yourself, will ye! and bad scran to ye!
at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 92: Ay, indeed, and if we haven’t enough, barging and fighting rings round her.
at barge, v.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 117: Did ever anyone see the beat of that!
at beat, n.2
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 121: Herself that’s on a great blind, those times!
at blinder, n.3
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 12: Mrs Molally [...] a big, soft bubbling kind of old body.
at old body (n.) under body, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 124: Mrs. Doran did get ‘booted out’ of the Guild Tenement House.
at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 105: Brigeen’s as apt as not to be out cadging.
at cadging, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 155: Tim, having been roughly bidden to ‘cut his lucky out of that afore they came back,’ sloped off.
at cut one’s lucky (v.) under cut, v.2
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 58: I’d say, the theatre would be yer best dart.
at dart, n.1
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 196: Sure, how was I to know the differ!
at differ, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 239: Oh come, draw it mild, you know!
at draw it mild!, excl.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 25: You’ll not have any truck wid that ould faggot of a wan.
at faggot, n.1
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 179: Why, even the leisure that their young hearts needed [...] was being filched from them.
at filch, v.1
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 109: She came back, double quick time, and she fit to be tied!
at fit to be tied under fit to..., phr.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 169: Remember the first time we played tennis here? I was horribly funky.
at funky, adj.2
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 142: And now let you hold your whist and not be puttin’ in your gab where it’s not wanting!
at gab, n.2
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 91: But it ud be as good tell her, the first go-off; then she couldn’t go fau’t ye, after!
at go-off, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 166: But Dinny! the innocent little gaum.
at gom, n.2
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 94: ‘Och! how poor he is! yer granny’s night cap!’ said Brigit, with scorn.
at your granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 109: Troth, I wisht to goodness they never marked them! for all the Hell’s delight, and she kicked it up then.
at hell’s delight(s) (n.) under hell, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 92: A train was coming along with some high-up Quality, directors or the like of that.
at high-up, adj.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 83: That does mostly only be when she’ll have a few jolts of whiskey taken.
at jolt, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 11: A ripping little kiddie he is too.
at kiddy, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 205: Dinny, who wasn’t killed really, only kilt – a very different thing.
at kilt, adj.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 129: Well, g’lang ou’er that, ye dirty long streel of a lamp-post, yeh!
at lamp-post, n.
[Ire] K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 91: Then she’ll hear it and as like as not ’ull leather the life out of ye for not telling her.
at leather, v.
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