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[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 11 Feb. 4/1: Old Buchanan must go all to pigs and whistles.
at go to pigs and whistles (v.) under pig, n.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: Every man furnishing himself with a half pint of XX, or a dandy of Peter Smith’s best.
at dandy, n.3
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: Every man furnishing himself with a half pint of XX, or a dandy of Peter Smith’s best.
at double-X, n.1
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: Come flare-up, and flare-up, me ould Mail boy, / The Orange gang are thronging forth, / The Prods are running from the North.
at flare up!, excl.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: The spoonies [...] Gulp’d down, like fun, each whopping lie.
at like fun, adv.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: Come flare-up, and flare-up, me ould Mail boy, / The Orange gang are thronging forth, / The Prods are running from the North.
at Prod, n.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: A weary, prosy sermon through; while Roger’s loudly heard to snore.
at roger, n.2
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: Was not I, a very rum cove, when I speech’d at the Meeting to-day? / For there the spoonies [...] Gulp’d down, like fun, each whopping lie.
at rum-cove (n.) under rum, adj.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: Dan told a flattering tale, That Whigs were up the spout.
at up the spout under spout, n.2
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 15 Feb. 1/3: Oh! what a scene [...] Bibles kicked aside and damned belly timber! belly timber! shouted for.
at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 29 Apr. 3/3: I heard a noise in the lane [...] heard complainant call defendant a Mullingar heifer, beef to the heels.
at beef to the heel(s) (adj.) under beef, n.1
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 29 June 2/6: He was dressed [in] a pair of nondescript unmentionables and a calico breast-plate vulgarly y’clept a tommy.
at breast-plate, n.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 29 June 2/6: Shut your pratie trap, you ignoramus.
at potato-trap (n.) under potato, n.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 29 June 2/6: He was dressed [in] a pair of nondescript unmentionables and a calico breast-plate vulgarly y’clept a tommy.
at tommy, n.3
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 15 Oct. 1/5: Cromwell replies:- It don’t matter a brass farthing to me.
at brass farthing (n.) under brass, adj.1
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 16 Feb. 3/3: The cry ‘the Pump broke,’ still reached from the street. Oh (thought I) this a new cant [like] ‘ax mv eye,’ ‘does your mother know you're out,’ &c , &c.
at ask my...!, excl.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 10 Aug. 2/5: A powerful Catholic Sovereign would maintain [...] the administration of the laws of his realm even though their violator were a coroneted swaddler.
at swaddler, n.1
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 20 Dec. 2/5: For the defendant appeared the ‘little sergeant’ Sullivan, so named in contradistinction to his more burly brother of the coif, Armstrong.
at brother of the coif (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[Ire] Tipperary Free Press 25 Oct. 4/6: The letter went on to say, ‘If you do not refrain from exposing what you know about Fenianism we have taken oaths to pop you off’.
at pop, v.1
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