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047.01He ought to blush for himself, the old hayheaded philosopher,
–047.01+(blond-haired) [036.13] [615.23]
–047.01+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...philosopher,} | {Png: ...philosopher}
047.02For to go and shove himself that way on top of her.
–047.02+Archaic for to: in order to
–047.02+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...her.} | {Png: ...her}
047.03Begob, he's the crux of the catalogue
–047.03+crux: puzzling difficulty; central feature (from Latin crux: cross)
047.04Of our antediluvial zoo,
–047.04+(animals gathered by Noah before the Flood) [.06]
047.05       (Chorus) Messrs. Billing and Coo.
–047.05+phrase to bill and coo
–047.05+and company
047.06                         Noah's larks, good as noo.
–047.06+Noah's Ark [.04]
–047.06+new
047.07He was joulting by Wellinton's monument
–047.07+Anglo-Irish joult: journey
–047.07+Wellington's
047.08Our rotorious hippopopotamuns
–047.08+notorious
–047.08+hippopotamus
–047.08+German Childish Popo: buttocks
047.09When some bugger let down the backtrap of the omnibus
–047.09+Slang bugger: fellow, chap (from bugger: sodomite)
–047.09+(an earwig is a bug)
–047.09+(expose buttocks) [.11]
–047.09+VI.B.3.109k (r): 'trap of cab'
–047.09+O. Henry: The Four Million 134: 'Mammon and the Archer': 'They whirled up Forty-second to Broadway... At Thirty-fourth Street young Richard quickly thrust up the trap and ordered the cabman to stop'
047.10And he caught his death of fusiliers,
–047.10+Colloquial phrase catch one's death: get a bad cold
–047.10+fusiliers [033.26-.27]
047.11       (Chorus) With his rent in his rears.
–047.11+rent in arrears
–047.11+(exposed buttocks) [.09]
047.12                         Give him six years.
–047.12+
047.13'Tis sore pity for his innocent poor children
–047.13+Colloquial 'tis: it is
047.14But look out for his missus legitimate!
–047.14+
047.15When that frew gets a grip of old Earwicker
–047.15+German Frau: woman, wife
–047.15+shrew
047.16Won't there be earwigs on the green?
–047.16+Colloquial phrase there will be wigs on the green: it will come to blows or a sharp altercation (originally Irish)
047.17       (Chorus) Big earwigs on the green,
–047.17+bigwig: a man of high importance
047.18                         The largest ever you seen.
–047.18+
047.19       Suffoclose! Shikespower! Seudodanto! Anonymoses!
–047.19+Sophocles
–047.19+Shakespeare
–047.19+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Buddha', 737c: 'Buddha... was the son of Suddhodana, one of the chiefs of the tribe of the Sakiyas, one of the republican clans then still existent in India'
–047.19+pseudo
–047.19+Italian denti: teeth (Joyce had false teeth from 1923) [041.31]
–047.19+Dante
–047.19+anonymous
–047.19+Moses
047.20Then we'll have a free trade Gaels' band and mass meeting
–047.20+
047.21For to sod the brave son of Scandiknavery.
–047.21+Archaic for to: in order to
–047.21+sod: to cover with sods (i.e. to bury)
–047.21+Slang sod: to sodomise
–047.21+Scandinavia
–047.21+knavery
047.22And we'll bury him down in Oxmanstown
–047.22+Oxmantown: a part of northern Dublin, where Ostmen (Viking invaders of Ireland and their settler descendants) once lived [073.28]
047.23Along with the devil and Danes,
–047.23+
047.24       (Chorus) With the deaf and dumb Danes,
–047.24+
047.25                         And all their remains.
–047.25+
047.26And not all the king's men nor his horses
–047.26+nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty: 'All the king's horses and all the king's men'
047.27Will resurrect his corpus
–047.27+Latin corpus: body
–047.27+corpse
047.28For there's no true spell in Connacht or hell
–047.28+Oliver Cromwell (about transplanting Irish landowners): 'to Hell or to Connaught' (supposedly from a Parliamentary act legalising the confiscation of Irish lands)
047.29       (bis) That's able to raise a Cain.
–047.29+bis: (of a musical phrase) to be repeated (from Latin bis: twice)
–047.29+Motif: Cain/Abel
–047.29+phrase raise Cain: create a disturbance
–047.29+raise again (i.e. resurrect) [.27]


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