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[Ire] Roscommon Messenger 2 Nov. 4/4: Irish civilization, which only erupts in an occasional retaliatory petty murder, is respectable alongsie of this downright, damnable and cold-blooded villainy.
at damnable, adj.
[Ire] Roscommon Messenger 23 Feb. n.p.: I’ve done the shivering dodge too – gone out in cold weather half naked.
at shivering dodge, n.
[Ire] Roscommon Messenger 16 Mar. 5/5: He criticised the action of some ‘dumb-heads’ who were influenced by the occupiers of land against allowing him to get sites for cottages.
at dumbhead (n.) under dumb, adj.1
[Ire] Roscommon Messenger 6 Jan. 3/3: Before she’d half finished she heard the teuf-teuf of the motor at the door.
at teuf-teuf, phr.
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