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[Ire] Captain Thomas Stukeley in Bliss Irish Writings from the Age of Swift (1979) 79: [I] am af[r]aid Brian Mac Phelemy is wyd his streepo, and forgets to hang a siegne or let us in .
at strap, n.1
[Ire] Irish Hudibras in Bliss Irish Writings from the Age of Swift (1979) 126: The Dear Joys strait began to quake, / Stinking for fear, did Buttons make .
at one’s arse makes buttons (v.) under button, n.1
[Ire] Irish Hudibras in Bliss Irish Writings from the Age of Swift (1979) 60: And today make Holy-day / When all de Monaghans shall play / Ordain a statute to be drunk, / And burn tobacco free as spunk .
at monaghan, n.
[Ire] Irish Hudibras in Bliss Irish Writings from the Age of Swift (1979) 126: What though of ready ne’er a plack / Yet many a plugg of good toback / It cost me to come to dis port .
at plack, n.
[Ire] J. Michelburne Ireland Preserved in Bliss Irish Writings from the Age of Swift (1977) 144: He did bate my Wife, and did trow her down stairs, and did call her a Feisting, Farting, Stinking Shaad .
at foist, v.2
[Ire] Swift A Dialogue in Hibernian Stile in Bliss Irish Writings from the Age of Swift (1979) 30: None but garrawns, and I have seen him often riding on a sougawn. In short he is no better than a spawlpeen, a perfect Monaghan .
at monaghan, n.
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