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The Quare Fellow choose

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[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: Aren’t they impudent pups? [...] I’d tan their pink backsides for them.
at backside, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Ah, thanks, butty, your blood’s worth bottling.
at bottling, adj.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: It’ll break that young screw up.
at break up, v.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Have a quiet burn there before the screw comes round.
at burn, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: Don’t be such a bloody big baby. We all know you’re a hard case.
at hard case, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: There was one day I was brought in for drinking the chat and I went to court that morning.
at chat, n.5
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: We came over here to see a chiner of ours.
at china (plate), n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: He’s as mad as a coot.
at coot, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: We’re too old and beat for lobbywatching and shaking down anywhere.
at shake down, v.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Many’s the seaman myself and Meena gave the hey and a do, and Mickey Finn to.
at mickey finn, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) III:ii: That’s that bloody Mickser. I’ll fix him this time.
at fix, v.1
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: They’d have thought it was a bloody mothers’ meeting. What with you and my other bald mahogany gas pipe here.
at mahogany gaspipe, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: I’ve never been a grasshopper or a nark for the screws anyway.
at grasshopper, n.2
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Corkmen and Northerners ... they’ve such bloody hard necks.
at hard neck (n.) under hard, adj.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: He was a young hard chaw like you in all the pride of his strength and impudence.
at hard chaw (n.) under hard, adj.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: You’re having me on!
at have someone on, v.1
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: Maybe the jackeens should spread out the red carpet for you and every other bog barbarian that comes into the place.
at jackeen, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: Hey, you down there, cut it out, or I’ll give you jingle-jangle.
at jingle-jangle, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: It’s my opinion that old Healey does be half-jarred a deal of the time.
at jarred, adj.1
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Him and this other jewel here.
at jewel, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: The quare fellow’s got enough on his plate without putting him in the blue jigs altogether.
at in the jigs (adj.) under jigs, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) III i: Some hungry pig ate half his breakfast and he kicked up murder.
at kick up (a) murder (v.) under kick up, v.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Ah, you maggot.
at maggot, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: That’s a lot of mullarkey.
at malarkey, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Ah, that’s massive, sir.
at massive, adj.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: I thought it was as good a drop of meths as ever I tasted.
at meths, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act II: Two laggings I done! At Parkhurst and on the Moor.
at Moor, the, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: If we did our wing first, we’d miss the mots hanging out the laundry.
at mot, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Have a quiet burn there before the screw comes round. We’ll keep nick.
at keep (the) nick (v.) under nick, v.3
[Ire] B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: I’d sooner a pike at a good-looking mot.
at pike, n.3
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