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Rocky Road to Dublin choose

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[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: He’s away. He must have met the mist [the ceo draíochta, druid mist] and been taken in it [BS].
at away (with the fairies) (adj.) under away, adj.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: The question arose whether the Bad Man Below used turf for fuel [BS].
at Bad Man, n.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: Every time she found him too ready to fall in with the ways of each latest advisor, it was ‘Hagh! Billy Harren’s wee dog, who went a bit of the way with everyone’ [BS].
at Billy Harran’s dog, n.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: Underneath the desks [...] there was a rich commerce in trogging of all the various merchandise transported in boys’ pockets – even to their bit [BS].
at bit, n.1
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: He couldn’t have been more than six or seven when he tried to help Eddie Quinn dispose of the old horse that time out of mind had served him for cadging fish from door to door [BS].
at cadge, v.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: Cock Tuesday, the eve of Lent, was then the great day of the year for marriages [BS].
at Cock Tuesday (n.) under cock, n.3
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: But the little boy minded little the cold passage, or the time she took, even if it was to Tibb’s Eve – because he had found lying in a window, a wonderful book [BS].
at St Tibb’s eve, n.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin 12: Wullie John hadn’t a pair of trousers fit to be seen in the fair, so borrowed yours to stand in. He’ll have them home in good time, for my man’s a jenny-wine Methodist who never lets night find him in a fair.
at jenny wine, adj.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: ‘To do that,’ said Long John’s Nelly, ‘we’d have to build up both the doors and the windows.’ ‘Well,’ replied her indignant adviser, ‘if I was in your place, and afflicted with that plaster, I would build them up’ [BS].
at plaster, n.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: ‘Where’s the other scoundrels, you rammed wee rascal?’ he yelled [BS].
at rammed, v.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: He was strongly tempted to scheme school [...] Often, boys did so scheme [BS].
at scheme, v.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin 246: The older Masters were yet truly, even if condescendingly, kind to him [...] Without putting a tooth in it, they admired him .
at put a tooth in it (v.) under tooth, n.
[Ire] S. MacManus Rocky Road to Dublin n.p.: I’m going to have something to say to them vags, that day, that will raise blisters on their conscience .
at vag, n.1
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