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046.01Small wonder He'll Cheat E'erawan our local lads nicknamed him
–046.01+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–046.01+Anglo-Irish e'erawan: anyone
–046.01+Samuel Butler: Erewhon
046.02When Chimpden first took the floor
–046.02+Chimpden [030.02-.03]
046.03       (Chorus) With his bucketshop store
–046.03+American Slang bucketshop: unauthorised stockbroker's office
046.04                         Down Bargainweg, Lower.
–046.04+German Weg: way
046.05So snug he was in his hotel premises sumptuous
–046.05+
046.06But soon we'll bonfire all his trash, tricks and trumpery
–046.06+Slang trash and trumpery: rubbish
046.07And'tis short till sheriff Clancy'll be winding up his unlimited company
–046.07+VI.B.10.030m (r): ''tis short now till'
–046.07+The Leader 11 Nov 1922, 327/2: 'Our Ladies' Letter': 'Like that, I suppose 'tis short now till we'll have women labourers in the Government'
–046.07+Colloquial 'tis: it is
–046.07+Long John Clancy: sub-sheriff of Dublin at the time of Joyce: Ulysses
–046.07+limited company: a company whose shareholders have only limited liability
046.08With the bailiff's bom at the door,
–046.08+bumbailiff: (contemptuous for) bailiff, officer of the court under a sheriff, warrant officer
–046.08+bum
046.09       (Chorus) Bimbam at the door.
–046.09+
046.10                         Then he'll bum no more.
–046.10+
046.11Sweet bad luck on the waves washed to our island
–046.11+
046.12The hooker of that hammerfast viking
–046.12+VI.B.2.172d (r): 'hooker'
–046.12+Graves: Irish Literary and Musical Studies 236: 'George Petrie as a Musician and amongst his Friends': (quoting Lady Ferguson about an excursion to the Aran Islands) 'The combined party chartered a hooker with its crew and retained, as guide, the local antiquary'
–046.12+hooker: a type of Irish fishing boat
–046.12+Hammerfest: one of the Northernmost ports of Norway
046.13And Gall's curse on the day when Eblana bay
–046.13+Irish gall: foreigner
–046.13+God's curse!
–046.13+Eblana: Ptolemy's name for Dublin (or so it was mostly believed in Joyce's time)
046.14Saw his black and tan man-o'-war.
–046.14+Black and Tans: British men (mostly unemployed World War I veterans) recruited by the thousands into the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), notorious for their violence and brutality
046.15       (Chorus) Saw his man-o'-war.
–046.15+
046.16                         On the harbour bar.
–046.16+
046.17Where from? roars Poolbeg. Cookingha'pence, he bawls Donnez-moi scampitle, wick an wipin'fampiny
–046.17+Poolbeg Lighthouse, Dublin
–046.17+Copenhagen: the capital of Denmark (from where Vikings came to Ireland; Motif: Copenhagen)
–046.17+Denmark's capital
–046.17+French donnez-moi: give me
–046.17+Italian scampi: prawns; escapes, flights
–046.17+spittle
–046.17+(Ear)wick(er)
–046.17+and wife and family
–046.17+infamy
–046.17+Italian bambini: children, babies
046.18Fingal Mac Oscar Onesine Bargearse Boniface
–046.18+Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Oscar Wilde's full name) [371.22]
–046.18+Finn MacCool, Oscar, Ossian (Finn was the father of Ossian, who was the father of Oscar)
–046.18+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...Onesine...} | {BMs (47472-118v): ...Onesime...}
–046.18+Saint Onesimus: a runaway slave emancipated and converted to Christianity by Saint Paul while the latter was imprisoned in Rome (Philemon 1:10, Colossians 4:9; the name derives from Greek onesimos: useful, helpful; spelled Onesime in French)
–046.18+Slang bargearse: a person with a round behind
–046.18+Boniface: generic proper name for an innkeeper
046.19Thok's min gammelhole Norveegickers moniker
–046.19+Norwegian min: my
–046.19+Norwegian gammel: old, ancient
–046.19+hoar: grey-haired with age, old
–046.19+Hebrew gammal: camel [.21]
–046.19+Latin norvegicus: Norwegian
–046.19+Slang moniker: name
046.20Og as ay are at gammelhore Norveegickers cod.
–046.20+Norwegian og: and
–046.20+as they are
–046.20+god
046.21       (Chorus) A Norwegian camel old cod.
–046.21+
046.22                         He is, begod.
–046.22+
046.23Lift it, Hosty, lift it, ye devil ye! up with the rann, the rhyming rann!
–046.23+lift it, Hosty [371.09]
–046.23+(lift his voice)
–046.23+Elevation of the Host (at the Mass)
–046.23+Latin hostis: stranger, enemy (the Enemy is another name for the Devil)
–046.23+Anglo-Irish Colloquial phrase ye divil ye!: you devil, you! (a playful or exasperated address) [147.02] [473.21]
–046.23+Archaic ye: you (plural)
–046.23+Motif: Rhyme the rann (Anglo-Irish rann: verse, short song)
046.24It was during some fresh water garden pumping
–046.24+garden party
046.25Or, according to the Nursing Mirror, while admiring the monkeys
–046.25+Nursing Mirror: a periodical
–046.25+Enrico Caruso was accused in 1906 of pinching a woman's bottom at the monkey house of the New York City Central Park Zoo and was fined ten dollars in a well-publicised trial (but his guilt or innocence were never firmly established) [.25-.27]
–046.25+Joyce: Ulysses.15.1188: 'Innocence. Girl in the monkey house. Zoo. Lewd chimpanzee. (Breathlessly) Pelvic basin. Her artless blush unmanned me'
–046.25+(monkey house = chimp den; hence, Chimpden) [030.02-.03]
046.26That our heavyweight heathen Humpharey
–046.26+Humphrey [030.02]
046.27Made bold a maid to woo
–046.27+
046.28       (Chorus) Woohoo, what'll she doo!
–046.28+do
046.29                         The general lost her maidenloo!
–046.29+Colloquial general: general servant, maid-of-all-work
–046.29+maidenhood (Joyce: Chamber Music XI: 'the snood That is the sign of maidenhood')
–046.29+Waterloo


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