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[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 8: If a teacher caught five fellas smoking or doing serious messing he got a bonus in his wages.
at mess about, v.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 169: Shut up; your da’s an alco.
at alko, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 252: I made sure my lips were dry so I wouldn’t put a duck’s arse on it.
at duck’s arse, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 162: He’d only got a few belts.
at belt, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 160: My ma saw us and she blabbed to my da.
at blab, v.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 156: I held his nose and I pinched his diddy. [Ibid.] 168: Sinbad got a pulled diddy and a dead leg at the same time.
at diddy, n.3
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 192: Howdy-doody.
at howdy do, phr.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 1: If I did a gick in me pants he’d kill me! [Ibid.] 5: Ah gick, said Kevin.
at gick, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 206: He became grouchy and dangerous.
at grouchy, adj.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 78: I was about to be hammered by my da.
at hammer, v.1
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 200: He did a jobby, I told them all. – Down his leg.
at jobbie, n.2
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 253: He killed his Major [brand of cigarette] and put it in his box and put it in his pocket.
at kill, v.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 135: His jersey was outside his nicks.
at knicks, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 95: I thought [...] that it had stopped raining. But it hadn’t. It was lashing.
at lash, v.1
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 115: Martin wore longers in the summer.
at longies, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 206: Missis Kilmartin roared it at her mentler son.
at mentler, adj.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 63: Dreaming about a molly, said James O’Keefe.
at molly, n.1
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 5: Look at your hands, she said – Your fingernails! My God, Patrick, you must be in mourning for the cat.
at in mourning under mourning, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 114: Terence Long Terence Long – / Wears no socks – / What a pong.
at pong, n.1
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 13: He was a Protestant, a proddy, and he was older than us.
at Proddy, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 108: Pruning was banned in our school.
at pruning, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 197: He had two snailers coming out of his nose even though it wasn’t all that cold.
at snailer, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 228: Bedtime, sonny jim.
at son, n.1
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 82: Missis Byrne had a black lens in her glasses. Specky Three Eyes she was called.
at specky, adj.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 271: He was a sap, a spoofer and a liar.
at spoofer, n.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 206: I’ll swing for you.
at I’ll swing (for)... under swing, v.
[Ire] R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 183: Wakey wakey, Mister Clarke.
at wakey, wakey!, excl.
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