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[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 42: ‘Buck up,’ he sez.
at buck up!, excl.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 42: Well Frank me bucko, an’ how ar-re ye?
at bucko, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 45: It’s a burnin’ shame.
at burning, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 43: They sat there ’n chewed the rug for near an hour.
at chew the rug (v.) under chew, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 45: The minute he poked his whiskers out of his office some crazy arnychist was liable to crack away at him with a gaspipe bomb.
at crack, v.1
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 42: Oi think Oi’ll put on me rollers an’ duck.
at duck, v.1
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 45: The worst he ever got was some friend of McElliott’s soaking him with a brick.
at soak, v.2
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 77: What d’ye think th’ poor bosthoon replies?
at bosthoon, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 50: That is th’ real Irish village [...] I think th’ other one from Donegal is a sort of bunk, I do, an’ I niver liked Donegal.
at bunk, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 49: Ye’er respected grandfather [...] wud r-rise from th’ grave an’ fetch ye a clout in the job.
at clout, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne in B.C. Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 55: ‘By gar,’ I says, surprised.
at gar, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 54: ‘What’s that?’ I says, pointin’ out a gazabo with long hair. ‘That’s Gilder,’ he says. ‘He’s a great pote.’.
at gazabo, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 271: Listen to me, Jawn, ye poor deluded gom.
at gom, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 68: By gar, he’ll be th’ ’ell’s own man, won’t he though.
at hell’s own (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 49: All th’ good I ever knew thim for was to make janitors an’ knock blazes out iv Danny O’Brien and Philly Furlong.
at knock (the) hell of out (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr. Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 332: But what th’ ’ell am I doin’ gassin’ away about goats.
at what the hell...?, phr.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 191: Then they was dinner, a hell iv a dinner, iv turkey.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 59: A few months ago iverbody had th’ rowly-bowlys. There did be long green shtickin’ out iv vest pockets [...] Now look at it. The same men does be lammin’ up th’ sthreet with lace curtains on th’ buttons of their pa-ants an’ th’ sheriff afther thim with a writ.
at lam, v.2
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 227: We’re tired iv those big omadhons fr’m Mayo.
at omadhaun, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 59: A few months ago iverbody had th’ rowly-bowlys [sic]. There did be long green shtickin’ out iv vest pockets.
at roly-poly, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 190: They had [...] oatmale stirabout.
at stir-about (n.) under stir, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 53: It always looked like a whaling big lie to me.
at whaling, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 110: I thought me friend Casey’d be taken up f’r histin’ a policeman.
at hoist, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 158: He was th’ main finger iv th’ team iv Nothre Dame.
at main finger (n.) under main, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 182: He’s th’ la-ad that have made th’ Prince iv Wales thrimble in his moccasins.
at moccasins, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 110: Casey’d call on Doolan f’r to shtand his ground an’ destroy th’ polis – ‘th’ onions iv th’ monnopolists,’ he called them.
at onion, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 347: I seen Tim Dorsey’s little woman carryin’ a loaf iv bread an’ a ham to the Polack’s this noon.
at Polack, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 169: I’ll hock me coronet.
at hock, v.1
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 93: They had to sind f’r another kag. An’ that kag was a ringer.
at ringer, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 242: ’Tis a sign iv th’ nuttiness iv the campaign that a man should thry to blow himself out with hard times.
at blow out, v.1
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