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[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 149: It [the water] would in fact freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 26: Dommo, you’re not worth a shit.
at not worth a shit, phr.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 58: Mr Toner put a half-crown on the table and invited them to contribute some of their pocket money to the cause. Pocket money how are ye!
at how are you!, excl.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 97: In the street of a thousand arseholes, / By the light of the swinging tit, / There lives a Chinese merchant, / By the name of Hoo Flung Shit.
at arsehole, n.
[Ire] B.B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 96: She drew a breath, looked at them impatiently, and said: ‘Ah, ask me arse.’.
at ask my...!, excl.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 45: Sniff. – Who let the banger? – Not me.
at banger, n.3
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 45: Joe is after blowing and he’s blaming it on me.
at blow, v.1
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 99: A tough-looking man with [...] close-cropped red hair which earned him the nickname carrot-head.
at carrothead (n.) under carrot, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 105: As Mr Toner was obviously the ‘chap’, they had no fears for him [...] the chap never gets killed in the pictures.
at chap, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 51: He was the first to use ‘Corporation hairoil,’ or water, to achieve a quiff in his hair and was called a mickeydazzler because of it.
at corporation hair-oil (n.) under corporation, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 99: He was always referring to Holy Joes and crawthumpers.
at craw-thumper, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 21: A crybaby as well as a culchie.
at culchie, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 41: Babies dangling from their diddies.
at diddies, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 81: Parents warned about ending up in such dead-end jobs if they didn’t do their eckers (homework) and study properly.
at eccer, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 9: Oh feck, he should have closed his eyes for that bit.
at feck!, excl.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 53: You can’t be let out on a simple message but one of you comes back in flitters.
at flitter, v.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 162: They’d catch up on girl cyclists wearing slacks and yell ‘emptyfork’ and the girls would screech back ‘Take more than youse to fill it’.
at fork, n.1
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 84: The main hazard was Frenchie [...] his nickname came from his black beret, the kind that every cinematic French man wore.
at Frenchie, n.1
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 149: The girl was unpopular – her nickname was Fungus Face.
at fungus, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 35: They loved being there except when their Granny hawked and dropped a big gollyer in the spittoon beside her chair.
at gollier, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 89: ‘Hey, oul’ Jimmy, does your mother know you’re out!’ ‘Go on, give her a goozer.’.
at goozer, n.1
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 103: Name-calling is only for gutties.
at guttie, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 99: He was always referring to Holy Joes and crawthumpers.
at holy Joe, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 46: What’s that when it’s at home? asked Joe sourly.
at what’s that when it’s at home? under home, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 89: She was a stocky woman in her thirties, what Granda Hope would call ‘a fine hoult’.
at hoult, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 64: Granda Hope caught her in his arms, swung her around and cried, ‘I never reared a jibber.’.
at jibber, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 101: Switch off that jungle music.
at jungle, adj.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 26: Eh, Lanky, is it cold up there?
at lanky, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 59: Maisie McGee offered to swap a glimpse of her bum for a look at Damo Scully’s weewee man.
at man, n.
[Ire] B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 158: Come on the whole shooting gallery of you. Gather your paraphernalia.
at whole shooting match, the, phr.
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