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The Playboy of the Western World choose

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[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act I: The thousand militia – bad cess to them! – walking idle through the lands.
at bad cess to you! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act I: Don’t tell your father and the men is coming above; for if they heard that story they’d have great blabbing this night at the wake.
at blab, v.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: It’d split my heart to hear them, and I with pulses in my brain-pan for a week gone by.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: Is it mad yous are? Is it in a crazy house for females that I’m landed now?
at crazy house (n.) under crazy, n.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: And isn’t herself the divil’s daughter for locking, and she so fussy after that young gaffer.
at gaffer, n.1
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: Father Reilly’s after reading it in gallous Latin.
at gallows, adj.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: An ugly young streeler with a murderous gob on him.
at gob, n.1
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: And the mountain girls hooshing him on!
at hoosh, v.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: And myself as a girl was tempted often to go sailing the seas till I’d marry a Jew-man with ten kegs of gold.
at Jewman, n.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: Drink a health to the wonders of the Western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies, parching peelers, and the juries.
at jockey, n.2
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: One time I seen rats as big as badgers sucking the life blood from the butt of my lug.
at lug, n.1
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: You’re pot-boy in this place, and I’ll not have you mitch off from us now.
at mitch, v.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: I can stay so, working at your side, and I not lonesome from this mortal day.
at mortal, adj.1
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World (1979) II 51: He’d be [...] making mugs at his own self in the bit of a glass we had hung on the wall.
at mug, n.1
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: And I not three weeks with the Limerick girls drinking myself silly, and parlatic from the dusk to dawn.
at palatic, adj.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act I: And if they find his corpse stretched out to the dews of dawn, what’ll you say then to the peelers or the Justice of the Peace?
at peeler, n.2
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act I: It’d be a crazy pot-boy’d lodge him in the shebeen where he works by day.
at shebeen, n.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: There’s the playboy! There’s the lad thought he’d rule the roost in Mayo. Slate him now, Mister.
at slate, v.1
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: A hideous, fearful villain, and the spit of you.
at spit, n.2
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: Well, isn’t he a nasty man to get into such staggers at a morning wake.
at staggers, n.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: An ugly young streeler with a murderous gob on him.
at streeler, n.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: shawn: Come on to the peelers till they stretch you now. / christy: Me! / michael: ...you’d best come easy, for hanging is an easy and a speedy end.
at stretch, v.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act II: Whisht! there’s someone inside the room. It’s a man.
at whisht!, excl.
[Ire] J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: That’s the playboy on the winkered mule.
at winkered (adj.) under winkers, n.
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