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Title: Annals of Ballykilferret choose

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[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 41: Be japers I have ye now, ye shite!
at bejabers!, excl.
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 22: O’Lunacy was the ‘big wheel’ of the town at the time.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 45: The drinker merely saves his coupons [...] and he may exchange them with the manager for what is known locally as ‘dry money’.
at dry money (n.) under dry, adj.1
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret n.p.: They find they cannot sustain their anger with him because he is ‘great crack and would live in your ear’ [BS].
at live in someone’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 22: A warship [...] anchored far out in Dublin Bay [...] and a small craft put out from her, rowed by two jack-tars.
at jack tar, n.1
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 39: ‘Under me shaggin’ feet all day, ye little snot ye,’ and ‘root in the arse if I trip over ye again.’.
at root, n.1
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 41: Be japers I have ye now, ye shite!
at shite, n.
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 25: Yez shower of shites, and yer mothers before yez!
at shower of shit (n.) under shower, n.
[Ire] F. Kelly Annals of Ballykilferret 10: Suddenly there was a cry, terrifying in its aloneness in the empty ether, ‘Get up the yard, ye silly bollocks, yer flies is open!’.
at get up the yard! (excl.) under yard, n.2
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