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[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 106: He’s a conceited, swelled-headed, self-satisfied pup, that thinks, begad, he knows everything.
at begad!, excl.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 145: Oh, Cleopatra, begob! sez I to myself.
at begorra!, excl.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 180: ‘Go, go, go,’ he shouts. ‘Go to blazes.’.
at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 181: Run like blazes, now.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 158: Hallo! Have some bubbly.
at bubbly, n.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 57: Bully for Susy!
at bully for —! (excl.) under bully, adj.1
[Ire] 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
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 178: ‘Oh, great Christopher Columbus,’ laments Uncle Joe.
at Christopher Columbus!, excl.
[Ire] 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
[Ire] Lynn Doyle Back to Ballygullion 51: But his girl was death on drink. He had to give it up.
at death on, adj.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 75: For the first time in my drinking life I’m bate an’ flummoxed.
at flummoxed, adj.2
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 156: An’ when that poor gawm made a rush for her.
at gom, n.2
[Ire] 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
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 13: You needn’t be looking so gunked.
at gunk, n.1
[Ire] Lynn Doyle Back to Ballygullion 76: Make it three half-ones, Tammas.
at half-one, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 117: Sukey was as fond of the boys as any lump of a girl is.
at lump, n.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 180: Go in your pelt with your coat over your arm.
at pelt, n.
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 134: We went into Barney’s to have a farewell rozener!
at rosiner, n.
[Ire] Lynn Doyle Back to Ballygullion 59: He took a hasty skelly at his father.
at skelly, n.1
[Ire] 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.
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 131: Andy fetched him a stiffener in a wee bottle.
at stiffener, n.2
[Ire] 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
[Ire] L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 165: ‘Wheesht! man, wheesht,’ sez he, lookin’ back over his shoulder, all scared.
at whisht!, excl.
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