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The People who Drank Water from the River choose

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[Ire] J. Kennedy The People who Drank Water from the River 80: There were the ‘cafflers’ (pranksters) and the straight-laced, the loudmouths and taciturns.
at caffler, n.
[Ire] J. Kennedy The People who Drank Water from the River 81: Isn’t he a great hoor of an ass to get himself tangled up like that!
at hooer, n.
[Ire] J. Kennedy The People who Drank Water from the River 74: He and his auntie lived, so to speak, on the ‘clippings of tin.’.
at clippings of tin (n.) under tin, n.
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