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Rocky Road 29: Adam’s ale is good for man and beast.at Adam’s ale (n.) under Adam, n.
Rocky Road 29: Adam’s ale is good for man and beast. Rocky Road 89: I don’t like the idea of her mixin’ with the rag-tag and bob-tail of the road and streets.at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
Rocky Road 121: I often wish he was married to Mrs. Healey below, instead—she’d soon put the box on the hackles.at put a/the block on (v.) under block, n.6
Rocky Road 202: ‘I have you at last, me bucko!’ said the policeman.at bucko, n.1
Rocky Road 148: Is he a chancer that ye’d think was tryin’ to walk on eggs and not break them.at chancer, n.
Rocky Road 120: I often say when I’m out charin’: ‘Mid pleasures and palaces [...] there’s no place like a lobby.’.at char, v.
Rocky Road 144: I’m the chiseler that can show yez.at chiseller, n.
Rocky Road 200: Nora’s pulled [...] A big eejit of a bobby is after takin’ her to College Street Station.at eejit, n.
Rocky Road 144: ‘I’m with a girl that’s goin’ to knock spots off her.’ ‘Y’are, in my eye!’ sneered Jim.at my eye(s)!, excl.
Rocky Road 63: I feel a bit fagged after the night, as you can imagine.at fagged (out), adj.
Rocky Road 216: The ould faggot that opened the door said I was mistaken.at faggot, n.1
Rocky Road 216: I saw her on the South side with a dark-eyed swaggerin’ fella and a flash woman.at flash woman (n.) under flash, adj.
Rocky Road 122: ‘Lodgers, by the Lord Harry!’ snorted Mr. Devany.at by the Lord Harry! (excl.) under Lord Harry, n.
Rocky Road 121: When he comes home a bit mouldy on Saturday nights he does be as cross as a bag of weasels.at mouldy, adj.
Rocky Road 179: If ye drink it ye’ll have the mulligrugs within in ye.at mulligrubs, n.
Rocky Road 121: If you went to bed before his nibs comes in [...] he does be as cross as a bag of weasels.at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
Rocky Road 7: An ould omadaun like you.at omadhaun, n.
Rocky Road 156: The first time I clap my peepers on him I’ll tell ye.at peeper, n.
Rocky Road 49: ‘I say, old man,’ he said, ‘I’m sorry we queered your pitch.’.at queer someone’s pitch (v.) under queer, v.
Rocky Road 148: He’s a sooner, that fella [...] He’d sooner be a dirty scut than a dacent skin, any day.at sooner, n.
Rocky Road 174: She might be gettin’ tired of all the disappointments, and [...] be glad to throw up the sponge.at chuck up the sponge (v.) under sponge, n.
Rocky Road 119: ‘She’s out redeemin’ me leg’—he held up his shortened limb [...] ‘It’s up the spout’.at up the spout under spout, n.2
Rocky Road 111: That fellow is a down-right bad lot, and your sympathy is wasted on a swipe like him.at swipe, n.2
Rocky Road 113: He means that there’s a ‘slate off’ or a ‘screw loose.’.at have a tile loose (v.) under tile, n.
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