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[Ire] (con. 1980s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 123: Give me a cigarette, you fatass motherfucker.
at fat-ass, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1980s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 117: And the Guinness! What a drink. Two o’ those babies and I’m singing.
at baby, n.
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 79: Artist, me bollocks. The only thing you can draw is the dole.
at my bollocks! (excl.) under ballocks, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 7: All the neighbours are out for a gawk at my brother and they all think he’s the bee’s knees.
at bee’s knees, n.
[Ire] (con. 1980s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 153: When I told my brother I was to become a father, he said, ‘Well, you’re not shooting blanks anyway’.
at shoot blanks (v.) under blank, n.
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 80: ‘Who?’ ‘Groucho bleedin’ Marx.’.
at bleeding, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 66: The laughing, linking girls. ‘Get the last of the cheeky Charlies.’.
at cheeky, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 44: We recognized the priest instantly as he passed the chipper window.
at chipper, n.4
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 64: It was typical of many excursions to town for the craic on Saturday nights.
at crack, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 66: Now lads, the crawl is yer only man. From Guiney’s to the Half Way House.
at crawl, n.
[Ire] (con. 1978) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 89: He turns me this way and that. ‘Right side, deffo.’.
at deffo, adv.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 30: I have [...] galloped up Bunting Road dar-darring at any doggone gunslingin’ critter who crossed my path.
at doggone, adj.
[Ire] G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 2: Now I wanted to use words like ‘friggin’ [...] and say things like ‘Bugger that for a game of soldiers’.
at fuck that/this for a game of soldiers! (excl.) under fuck, v.
[Ire] (con. 1980s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 112: How’re ye Betty? You had a great pair o’ gams.
at gam, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 39: Now that gazebo with the beard is Castro, an awful bowsie.
at gazabo, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 47: ‘You have your glue,’ he said and walked on.
at have one’s glue (v.) under glue, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 56: This usually took about two hours, allowing half an hour for gostering and slingeing.
at goster, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 31: The cocksure hair-oiled boys in their gouger’s shoes.
at gouger, n.
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 66: Greenbacks in our pockets courtesy of the P & T.
at greenback, n.
[Ire] (con. 1978) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 89: Grind your teeth like so and get a look of ‘I don’t give a bollicks’ and you’re away in a hack.
at away on a hack (adj.) under hack, n.1
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 33: I was really only in the ha’penny place when it came to that.
at ha’penny place (n.) under ha’penny, adj.
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 67: ‘Haven’t seen you at lectures for eons.’ ‘He was on the hop,’ said Pat.
at on the hop under hop, n.4
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 20: Jasus, he’s a great drawer.
at Jesus!, excl.
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 66: ‘Merry Christmas, Barney.’ ‘Same to you, lads, with knobs on.’.
at with knobs on under knob, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 8: If I ever see you next or near that baby tryin’ to give him anything again, I’ll bate the lard out o’ ye.
at lard, n.
[Ire] (con. 1970s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 66: Now lads, the crawl is yer only man. From Guiney’s to the Half Way House.
at your man, n.
[Ire] (con. 1978) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 91: Wait till Benjy comes home, by Jasus, he’ll put manners on you.
at put manners on (v.) under manners, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 40: She told us she was a monkey’s uncle and the sun of a gun and that her timbers were shivering.
at I’ll be a monkey’s uncle! (excl.) under monkey’s uncle, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 39: She called us names like heartscalds and nudgers and guarlyas.
at nudger, n.
[Ire] (con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 30: I have rowdied in lines of bedlam on Saturday afternoons outside picture-houses all over Dublin for the six-penny rush.
at penny rush, n.
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