1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 106: He’s a conceited, swelled-headed, self-satisfied pup, that thinks, begad, he knows everything.at begad!, excl.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 180: ‘Go, go, go,’ he shouts. ‘Go to blazes.’.at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 181: Run like blazes, now.at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 23: Only that we’re told on what’s supposed to be good authority that it is fair play, a body could hardly believe it.at body, n.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 55: He was getting a little chaff. He took it more uncomfortably than one would have expected.at chaff, n.1
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 178: ‘Oh, great Christopher Columbus,’ laments Uncle Joe.at Christopher Columbus!, excl.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 50: I was sitting in the office of my friend, Sandy Morrison, one day, hoping for some ‘crack’.at crack, n.1
1953 Lynn Doyle Back to Ballygullion 51: But his girl was death on drink. He had to give it up.at death on, adj.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 75: For the first time in my drinking life I’m bate an’ flummoxed.at flummoxed, adj.2
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 170: ‘First offence my grandmother,’ says she. ‘Do I look like a first offence?’.at my granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
1953 Lynn Doyle Back to Ballygullion 83: Whatever rubbish she has humbugged you into buying, I’m sure I wouldn’t put it on my head.at humbug, v.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 117: Sukey was as fond of the boys as any lump of a girl is.at lump, n.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 174: There’s a quare horse-power in that wee engine behind us, judging from the skelly I got at her.at quare, adj.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 134: We went into Barney’s to have a farewell rozener!at rosiner, n.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 192: She can act any part from a slavey to a near-lady, an’ maybe to a complete one.at slavey, n.
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 131: Andy fetched him a stiffener in a wee bottle.at stiffener, n.2
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 149: If he ever gave anybody stuff on tick he wanted the whole history of them from the Flood down.at on tick under tick, n.3
1953 L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 165: ‘Wheesht! man, wheesht,’ sez he, lookin’ back over his shoulder, all scared.at whisht!, excl.