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[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 16 Dec. 8/2: ‘There is a stepmother’s breath in the air this morning’.
at stepmother’s breath, n.
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 20 Dec. 7/6: After I was chucked up I did a snatch near St Paul’s, was collared, lagged and got this bit of seve nstretch.
at chuck up, v.2
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 20 Dec. 7/6: I was jogging down a blooming slum in the Chapel when I butted a reeler who was sporting a red slang. I broke off his jerry and boned the clock.
at red slang (n.) under red, adj.
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 20 Dec. 7/6: I was jogging down a blooming slum in the Chapel when I butted a reeler who was sporting a red slang. I broke off his jerry and boned the clock.
at reeler, n.2
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 20 Dec. 7/6: After I was chucked up I did a snatch near St Paul’s, was collared, lagged and got this bit of seven stretch.
at snatch, n.
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 17 July 12/5: Are tripe and cow heel [...] and bubble-and-squeak in the menu?
at bubble and squeak, n.1
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 15 Oct. 12/1: Swearing that ‘he would never be the one of his name to demane himself by taking their dirty pledge’.
at dirty, adj.
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 24 Mar. 3/5: ‘Go away and scrape yourself, go on!’.
at go (away/in) and scrape yourself! (excl.) under scrape, v.
[Ire] Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 26 May 3/6: ‘A may be a softy [...] or a gomeril, but A kent see any wisdom or sevendibility in that at all!’.
at sevendibility (n.) under sevendible, adj.
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