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Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: For Luke was ever the chap / To boozle the bull-dogs and pinners.at chap, n.
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: For Luke was ever the chap / To boozle the bull-dogs and pinners. Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: De Clargy stept down from his Side, / And de Dust-cart from under him floated, / And left him to Dance on de Air.at dance on/in (the) air (v.) under dance, v.
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: Slap dash tro de Poddle we lark it.at slap-dash, adv.
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: But when dat we come to de Row, / Oh, dere was no meat in de market; / De boy he had travelled afore.at meat, n.
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: But when dat we come to de Row, / Oh, dere was no meat in de market; / De boy he had travelled afore.at Row, the, n.
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: But if dat de slang you run sly, / De scrag-boy may yet be outwitted, / And I scout again on de lay.at run sly (v.) under run, v.
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: His disconsolate widdy came in / From tipping the scrag-boy a dustin’.at scrag-boy (n.) under scrag, v.
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: His disconsolate widdy came in / From tipping the scrag-boy a dustin’ —.at tip, v.3
Kilmainham Minit in Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 88: His disconsolate widdy came in / From tipping the scrag-boy a dustin’.at widdy, n.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 60: In the morning he was, of course, deadly sick, but his host prescribed, ‘a hair of the old dog,’ that is, a glass of raw spirits.at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 20: While the punishment for ‘chalking’ is made in the highest degree severe, it is provided that the offence shall not corrupt the offender’s blood.at chalker, n.1
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 60: Though he did not weep, he certainly had a drop in his eye.at have a drop in one’s eye (v.) under drop in one’s eye, n.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 81: When the criminal was turned off, the ‘dusting of the scrag-boy’ began, the hangman was assailed, not merely with shouts and curses, but often with showers of stones.at dusting, n.1
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 96: Those who saw and conversed with him described him as a mean-looking fellow, pitted with the smallpox, and blind of an eye, whence Freney became a soubriquet for all persons who had lost an eye.at freney, n.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 59: A usual exhortation from a father to his son was, ‘make your head, boy, while you’re young,’ and certain knots of seasoned drinkers who had succeeded in this insane attempt, were called kat’ exochen, ‘the heads,’ from their impenetrability to the effects of liquor.at head, n.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 72: The Ringsend car was succeeded by the ‘noddy’, so called from its oscillating motion [...] It was a low vehicle, capable of holding two persons, and drawn by a horse.at noddy, n.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 81: When the criminal was turned off, the ‘dusting of the scrag-boy’ began, the hangman was assailed, not merely with shouts and curses, but often with showers of stones.at turn off, v.1
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 87: Who Paddy Ward was, we believe, has eluded the inquiries of historians and antiquaries. He was, however, very eminent for his sayings and doings.at Paddy Ward’s pig, n.
(ref. to late 18C) Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 17: Others were known by the soubriquet of Sweaters and Pinkindindies. It was their habit to cut off a small portion of the scabbards of the swords which every one then wore, and prick or ‘pink’ the persons with whom they quarrelled with the naked points.at pinkindindies, n.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 81: When the criminal was turned off, the ‘dusting of the scrag-boy’ began, the hangman was assailed, not merely with shouts and curses, but often with showers of stones.at scrag-boy (n.) under scrag, v.
Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1885) 19: They passed the house of a publican, on Ormond quay, they determined to amuse themselves by ‘sweating,’ i.e., making him give up all his fire-arms.at sweat, v.1
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