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[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 124: He naturally looked upon himself as the ‘A 1’ of the place.
at A-1, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 16: By my sowl it is a raal gintleman, ye may be sworn; there’s no half-and-half about him.
at half-and-half, adj.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 154: Och, murther! is it mustard with salmon? That bangs all!
at bang, v.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 251: That bangs Banagher!
at beat Bannagher (v.) under Bannagher, n.
[UK] W.H. Gregory Paddiana 85: Faith, she's a true Mullingar heifer — beef to the heels.
at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 235: Gibraltar has its Jew boys.
at Jew boy, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 235: Will yer honor give me the butt?
at butt, n.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana II 193: It is a pity that this admirable property of ‘choking off’ the judge [...] cannot be applied to some modern article of dress.
at choke off, v.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 67: If ye came here airlier ye’d have grate cracking. Sure there’s a power of fowl, and a grate deal of hares.
at crack, v.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 96: Sure I can’t spare her till we’ve got in the praties. What could I do wid all the crap on my hands?
at crap, n.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana II 102: So I cuts aff to Foot’s for the snuff.
at cut away (v.) under cut, v.2
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 187: I dislike the Welsh [...] they are dirty and prone to ‘do.’ I was not sorry in this instance to see one of them ‘done’.
at do, v.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 232: The cad of a large town [...] is, emphatically, ‘downey.’.
at downy, adj.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana II 94: That’s a fine draggle-tailed one; better for her to mend the heel of her stocking before she hold up her dress.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana II 238: This is a picture of the young gentlemen who hung loose upon the country, and ready to bestow their tediousness upon any who would receive them.
at hang loose, v.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana II 95: Faith, she’s a true Mullingar heifer – beef to the heels.
at Mullingar heifer, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana II 92: Sure, I wouldn’t have had it in notes at all [...] it’s aisier to spend in hogs and tanners.
at hog, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 54: Faith, ye’re making a holy show of yourself wid your pickles!
at holy show, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 148: Ah, what are ye dancing about for, like a goose on a hot plate?
at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 249: The wig seemed to rather strike him [...] He exclaimed gravely, but with a comic expression, ‘Bedad, that’s a great jazey!’.
at jasey, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 154: Bessy’s a fine lump of a girl.
at lump, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 313: I’m peppered, I warrant, for this world! Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man!
at peppered, adj.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 97: I’ll fill the keg with the first runnings – the raal stuff.
at real thing, the, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana II 18: For head, or heart, or bellyache, / There’s nothing like a screecher.
at screecher, n.
[Ire] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 169: Moses is a screw.
at screw, n.1
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 149: Blood an’ ouns! will I wet the tay now, ma’am?
at wet the tea leaves (v.) under tea, n.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 251: What tickled Mick Molony amazingly was the respect that was paid to him.
at tickle, v.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 96: I’ll be up to ould Lanty, as cute as ye are.
at up to, adv.
[UK] R.F. Walond Paddiana I 269: Go ’long, ye blackguards! It isn’t for the like o’ you to take the bread out o’ the poor widdy’s mouth.
at widdy, n.
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