1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 1: What they did do was observe and, to use their own expression, argufy.at argufy, v.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 160: You’d be a nice article to take to a foreign country.at article, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 134: I suppose me curse-o’-God horse is down the field again, bad scran to it?at bad scran (n.) under bad, adj.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 139: An old friend would waylay her [...] and, taking no refusal, steer her into a snug for just a thimbleful of sherry or a ball of malt.at ball, n.2
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 101: You’re making a balls of it. Wrong end of the stick.at make a balls of (v.) under balls-up, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 8: A long-suffering publican [...] refused their pleas for ‘a bang of the latch’ – a last quick pint.at bang of the latch (n.) under bang, n.1
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 99: ‘Tell the truth, is she the berries or is she not?’ he asked, pink with pride.at berries, the, n.1
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 6: He drove past them with a bit of stuff beside him.at bit of stuff, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 26: Bogtrotters like the schoolmaster were the new Quality.at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 155: I did not get a chance to tell Abie about Cara’s ‘botheration’.at botheration, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 166: Such credentials defined him as a ‘character’, which is usually a Dublinese synonym for a bowsie or gurrier.at bowsie, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 156: He’s not supposed to walk up stairs. Stairs me bum, he’s not even let out of bed.at my bum! (excl.) under bum, n.1
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 77: War-time bread and a slice of over-the-ration boiled ham ruthlessly cadged by my mother from Mr Cussen’s shop.at cadge, v.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 37: And then the clincher: ‘Sure why else would he write it?’.at clincher, n.1
1989 H. Leonard Out after Dark 29: What was all that about? [...] What ailed you? I thought you’d have to be dug out of him.at dig out, v.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 11: She gave a sworn statement to the police, so she could hardly go back on it and do the dirty on me.at do someone the dirty (v.) under dirty, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out after Dark 163: ‘We don’t want them and their sort here,’ he told me [...] ‘Dirty elders!’.at elders, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 147: There was a mutinous rumble and cries from the rear of ‘Feck off’.at feck, v.2
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 133: She would make for the Picture House. It was a redbrick flea-pit.at fleapit, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out after Dark 91: It was common knowledge that Englishwomen, their morals in flitters from six years of war, were coming to Ireland to eat farm eggs and butter.at flitter, v.
1989 H. Leonard Out after Dark 6: Like the hero in the weekly follower-upper at the Picture House.at follower-upper, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 41: The shame of being frogmarched, unconscious, off the altar.at frogmarch, v.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 15: Old Fanning appeared at his front window and made feck-off gestures of great savagery.at fuck-off, n.
1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark 3: Cloggy said: ‘Shag that for a lark.’.at fuck that/this for a lark! (excl.) under fuck, v.