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Some Irish Yesterdays choose

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[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 196: But becripes! [...] he’s a fine sthrong man.
at cripes!, excl.
[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 113: He wouldn’t give a dang for them.
at dang, n.1
[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 117: He’s diddled now entirely!
at diddle, v.2
[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 74: The kitchenmaid, in tears, followed suit, because the cook had called her a ‘jumper’ (i.e., a pervert to Protestantism).
at jump, v.
[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 167: The disbudding of ’Mums? (a term of horrid familiarity that I have seen applied to Chrysanthemums).
at mum, n.2
[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 16: Men and women alike wear ‘pampooties’ – slippers of raw cowhide, with the hair outside.
at pampootie, n.
[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 40: An’ eggs is it? an’ praties?
at pratie, n.
[Ire] Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 173: That’s one of the Heth family! The hills is rotten with it.
at rotten with (adj.) under rotten, adj.
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