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| 085.01 | in the bottol of the river and all his crewsers stock locked in the |
|---|---|
| –085.01+ | bottom |
| –085.01+ | cruisers |
| –085.01+ | phrase lock, stock and barrel: completely, entirely, in its entirety |
| 085.02 | burral of the seas!) who, when within the black of your toenail, |
| –085.02+ | Irish burral: bit, jot |
| –085.02+ | burial |
| –085.02+ | Anglo-Irish phrase by the black of your nail: only just |
| –085.02+ | black... ambushed [034.33] |
| 085.03 | sir, of being mistakenly ambushed by one of the uddahveddahs, |
| –085.03+ | sir, mam [.04] |
| –085.03+ | Buddha |
| –085.03+ | other fellows |
| –085.03+ | other weather [.19] |
| –085.03+ | Vedda: an aboriginal people of Sri Lanka |
| –085.03+ | Vedas: major sacred texts of Hinduism |
| –085.03+ | Italian vedetta: look-out, sentry |
| 085.04 | and as close as made no matter, mam, to being kayoed offhand |
| –085.04+ | K.O.: knock out |
| –085.04+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...offhand...} | {Png: ...offhard...} |
| 085.05 | when the hyougono heckler with the Peter the Painter wanted |
| –085.05+ | Huguenot: French protestant |
| –085.05+ | you, no go |
| –085.05+ | VI.B.10.049h (r): 'Peter the Painter' |
| –085.05+ | Irish Times 2 Dec 1922, 7/8: (of an ambush on the border between Meath and Kildare) 'The attacking party were all armed with Service rifles, and some of them carried "Peter the Painters" and Smith and Wesson revolvers' |
| –085.05+ | Peter the Painter: German Mauser automatic pistol named after a famous anarchist involved in the Siege of Sidney Street, 1911 (also, gave rise to an early 20th century jocular catch-phrase 'Here's Peter the Painter') |
| 085.06 | to hole him, was consistently practising the first of the primary |
| –085.06+ | German holen: to fetch |
| –085.06+ | first, primary (initial) |
| 085.07 | and imprescriptible liberties of the pacific subject by circulating |
| –085.07+ | Legalese imprescriptible: that cannot be taken away or abandoned (e.g. rights) |
| –085.07+ | Pacific Ocean [.20] |
| 085.08 | (be British, boys to your bellybone and chuck a chum a chance!) |
| –085.08+ | VI.B.31.195c (r): 'bellybone' |
| –085.08+ | Douglas: London Street Games 37: (a chant) 'I-N spells in — I was in my kitchen Doing a bit of stitching, Old Father Nimble Came and took my thimble, I got up a great big stone, Hit him on the belly bone — O-U-T spells out' (children's game) |
| 085.09 | alongst one of our umphrohibited semitary thrufahrts, open to |
| –085.09+ | Humphrey |
| –085.09+ | unprohibited (i.e. public) |
| –085.09+ | Latin semita: narrow way, footpath, lane |
| –085.09+ | cemetery |
| –085.09+ | thoroughfares |
| –085.09+ | German Durchfahrt: passage, thoroughfare |
| –085.09+ | farts |
| 085.10 | buggy and bike, to walk, Wellington Park road, with the curb |
| –085.10+ | to wit [.14] |
| –085.10+ | (with the parcel under his arm and his stick in his hand) |
| –085.10+ | Slang curb: thief's hook |
| 085.11 | or quaker's quacknostrum under his auxter and his alpenstuck in |
| –085.11+ | nostrum: a quack remedy |
| –085.11+ | Anglo-Irish oxter: armpit |
| –085.11+ | alpenstock: iron-spiked mountain-climbing staff |
| –085.11+ | German Stuck: plaster |
| –085.11+ | stuck |
| 085.12 | his redhand, a highly commendable exercise, or, number two of |
| –085.12+ | Red Hand: the heraldic symbol of Ulster |
| –085.12+ | red-handed: bearing clear evidence of guilt (e.g. of a recently committed crime) |
| –085.12+ | HCE (Motif: HCE) |
| –085.12+ | Childish number two: defecation |
| 085.13 | our acta legitima plebeia, on the brink (beware to baulk a man at |
| –085.13+ | ALP (Motif: ALP) |
| –085.13+ | Latin acta legitima plebeia: daily record of the lawful public acts of the common people (there is no such actual record known from Roman history) |
| –085.13+ | (Russian General about to wipe his buttocks) [.30] |
| –085.13+ | Obsolete baulk: to balk, to hinder, to frustrate, to disappoint |
| –085.13+ | Ibsen: all plays: John Gabriel Borkman |
| 085.14 | his will!) of taking place upon a public seat, to what, bare by |
| –085.14+ | German Platz nehmen: to take a seat (literally 'to take place') |
| –085.14+ | to wit [.10] |
| –085.14+ | Danish bare: just |
| –085.14+ | (bare buttocks on a lavatory seat) |
| 085.15 | Butt's, most easterly (but all goes west!) of blackpool bridges, as |
| –085.15+ | Butt Bridge, Dublin (the easternmost road bridge over the Liffey until 1978) |
| –085.15+ | Colloquial butt: buttocks |
| –085.15+ | Russian most: bridge |
| –085.15+ | phrase go west: to die |
| –085.15+ | Blackpool Bridge: part of the Roman road from Bristol to Lydney |
| –085.15+ | the name Dublin derives from Irish dubh linn: black pool |
| 085.16 | a public protest and naturlikevice, without intent to annoy either, |
| –085.16+ | Danish naturligvis: of course, naturally |
| –085.16+ | like vice |
| 085.17 | being praisegood thankfully for the wrathbereaved ringdove and |
| –085.17+ | phrase praise God (expressing thankful happiness or relief) |
| –085.17+ | well-behaved |
| –085.17+ | mourning dove: an American type of dove |
| –085.17+ | Motif: dove/raven (raven, dove) |
| 085.18 | the fearstung boaconstrictor and all the more right jollywell |
| –085.18+ | VI.B.16.144m (b): 'snake bites out of fear' |
| –085.18+ | Crawford: Thinking Black 252: 'For who does not know that a snake never really attacks a man, only bites out of fear, and only because you have stumbled over him in error' |
| –085.18+ | feasting |
| 085.19 | pleased, which he was, at having other people's weather. |
| –085.19+ | VI.B.1.005b (r): 'quite pleased at having other people's weather' [.03] |
| 085.20 | But to return to the atlantic and Phenitia Proper. As if that |
| –085.20+ | {{Synopsis: I.4.1A.M: [085.20-086.31]: Festy King is brought into court — the crown's allegations against him}} |
| –085.20+ | VI.B.17.050b (r): 'But to return to Pacific' |
| –085.20+ | Frazer: Folk-Lore in the Old Testament 6: (after discussing Polynesian creation myths and then moving to Siberian ones) 'But to return to the Pacific' |
| –085.20+ | Atlantic Ocean [.07] |
| –085.20+ | Phoenicia: an ancient maritime civilisation that flourished along the eastern Mediterranean coast in the 3rd to 1st millennia BC |
| –085.20+ | Phoenix Park |
| –085.20+ | finish properly |
| 085.21 | were not to be enough for anyone but little headway, if any, was |
| –085.21+ | |
| 085.22 | made in solving the wasnottobe crime cunundrum when a child |
| –085.22+ | conundrum |
| –085.22+ | child of man (Hebrew ben adam: human being (literally 'son of Adam, son of man')) |
| 085.23 | of Maam, Festy King, of a family long and honourably associ- |
| –085.23+ | Maamtrasna: a valley in Joyce country, County Galway, and the scene of the murders of five members of a family named Joyce in 1882, for which ten men (five of whom were also called Joyce) were accused, of whom five were sentenced to life imprisonment and three executed (including the apparently innocent Myles Joyce) after an unsound trial (including withheld documents, suppressed testimonies, etc.), in which the proceedings were carried out in English, while the accused spoke only Irish and their interpreter spoke a Donegal dialect that at times was almost unintelligible to the accused (written about at length, with quite a few factual errors, in Joyce: other works: Ireland at the Bar) |
| –085.23+ | Festy King (*E*, perhaps with hints of *C*) [092.07] |
| –085.23+ | VI.B.10.063d (r): 'Festus Joya, Recess' |
| –085.23+ | Festus King: shop in Clifden, County Galway |
| –085.23+ | king of the feast |
| –085.23+ | sty (Cluster: Pigs) |
| 085.24 | ated with the tar and feather industries, who gave an address in |
| –085.24+ | |
| 085.25 | old plomansch Mayo of the Saxons in the heart of a foulfamed |
| –085.25+ | ploughman |
| –085.25+ | Romansch language (Romansch) |
| –085.25+ | German Mansch: mixture, squash |
| –085.25+ | German Mensch Meier!: Good grief! |
| –085.25+ | VI.B.3.157a (o): 'Mayo of the Saxons' |
| –085.25+ | Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 60: 'This going to school in Ireland was not a matter of one short generation. It became traditional and continuous. Thus a part of the university city of Armagh became known as "Saxon Armagh," and likewise part of Mayo became known as "Mayo of the Saxons"' |
| –085.25+ | Mayo of the Saxons: 7th century monastery at Mayo, resorted to by English monks |
| –085.25+ | farfamed |
| 085.26 | potheen district, was subsequently haled up at the Old Bailey |
| –085.26+ | Anglo-Irish potheen: illicit whiskey |
| –085.26+ | Archaic haled: pulled, tugged, hauled |
| –085.26+ | held up |
| –085.26+ | VI.B.15.036m (o): 'Old Bailey' |
| –085.26+ | W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 326: (of the town of Howth on Howth Head) 'We now leave the town to make our way to the Old Bailey Lighthouse' |
| –085.26+ | Old Bailey: central criminal court, London |
| 085.27 | on the calends of Mars, under an incompatibly framed indictment |
| –085.27+ | calends of March: 1 March (originally, prior to the addition of January and February, the first day of the Roman year; named after Mars, the Roman god of war) |
| –085.27+ | Field of Mars: an area of ancient Rome (originally a public gathering place and a military training grounds, but by the 1st century BC also filled with many public buildings, such as temples, theatres, baths, etc.) [.31] |
| –085.27+ | incompetently |
| –085.27+ | Slang framed; falsely incriminated |
| 085.28 | of both the counts (from each equinoxious points of view, the one |
| –085.28+ | equinoctial |
| –085.28+ | equally noxious |
| 085.29 | fellow's fetch being the other follow's person) that is to see, flying |
| –085.29+ | proverb One man's meat is another man's poison: different people have different likes and dislikes |
| –085.29+ | fetch: in Irish folklore, a person's spectral double, the sighting of which is considered an omen or portent, usually of imminent death (the belief may have evolved from the Norse fylgja) |
| –085.29+ | fish |
| –085.29+ | fellow's |
| –085.29+ | fylgja: in Norse mythology, a spectral being that accompanied a person throughout his or her life, representing and portending his or her fate (from Old Norse fylgja: to follow) |
| –085.29+ | French poisson: fish |
| –085.29+ | say |
| –085.29+ | Slang phrase to fly pigeons: to steal coal |
| –085.29+ | (urinating and defecating) |
| 085.30 | cushats out of his ouveralls and making fesses immodst his forces |
| –085.30+ | Dialect cushats: wood-pigeons, ring-doves [.17] |
| –085.30+ | overalls: a loose-fitting full-body garment worn over regular clothes to protect them, especially by workmen |
| –085.30+ | Italian far fesso: to make a fool of someone |
| –085.30+ | Heraldry fesse: a third of the field, enclosed by two horizontal lines |
| –085.30+ | French fesses: buttocks |
| –085.30+ | faeces, battlefield (Russian General) [.13] |
| –085.30+ | faces amidst |
| –085.30+ | immodest |
| –085.30+ | m + (Motif: 5 vowels) + d: O [.30], I [086.11], A [086.18], E [086.19], U [086.20] |
| 085.31 | on the field. Oyeh! Oyeh! When the prisoner, soaked in methyl- |
| –085.31+ | Heraldry field: the whole surface of a shield in a coat of arms |
| –085.31+ | field [.27] |
| –085.31+ | Archaic Oyez! Oyez!: Hear ye! Hear ye! (traditional call of a public crier or court official; from Old French oyez!: hear ye!) |
| –085.31+ | O yeah! |
| –085.31+ | German Oje!: Oh dear! (pronounced 'oyeh') |
| –085.31+ | soaked, dry (opposites) |
| –085.31+ | Colloquial methylated: methylated spirits, alcohol mixed with additives (e.g. methanol) to render it unfit for drinking and usable as a solvent or fuel (yet still drunk by those desperate enough, due to its being exempt from taxes imposed on alcoholic beverages and thus very cheap) [070.27] |
| 085.32 | ated, appeared in dry dock, appatently ambrosiaurealised, like |
| –085.32+ | Slang in dry dock; unemployed; hospitalised |
| –085.32+ | dry dock: a dock from which the water may be drained in order to repair a ship |
| –085.32+ | dock: the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is kept during a criminal trial |
| –085.32+ | apparently |
| –085.32+ | patently |
| –085.32+ | ambrosia: the food (or drink) of the gods in Greek mythology |
| –085.32+ | Ambrosius Aurelianus: semimythical champion who led the Romanised Britons against the invading Saxons in the 5th century |
| –085.32+ | Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius: 5th century Roman philosopher |
| –085.32+ | (drunk) |
| 085.33 | Kersse's Korduroy Karikature, wearing, besides stains, rents and |
| –085.33+ | K.K.K.: initials of the Ku Klux Klan |
| –085.33+ | Kersse (Kersse the tailor) |
| –085.33+ | Archaic kersey: a type of ribbed woollen fabric |
| –085.33+ | corduroy: a type of thick corded or ribbed fabric (supposedly derived from French Artificial corde du roi: the king's cord) |
| –085.33+ | Motif: 7 items of clothing [.33-.35] |
| 085.34 | patches, his fight shirt, straw braces, souwester and a policeman's |
| –085.34+ | nightshirt (Parnell was falsely rumoured to have escaped from Captain O'Shea, his lover's husband, down a fire escape in his nightshirt) |
| –085.34+ | sou'wester: an oilskin waterproof hat worn by seamen during wet weather (short for 'southwester') |
| 085.35 | corkscrew trowswers, all out of the true (as he had purposely torn |
| –085.35+ | trousers |
| –085.35+ | Colloquial phrase all out of: no longer having any (i.e. no truth left) |
| –085.35+ | Colloquial phrase out of the blue: quite unexpectedly |
| –085.35+ | Colloquial phrase true blue: unwaveringly faithful |
| 085.36 | up all his cymtrymanx bespokes in the mamertime), deposing for |
| –085.36+ | cemetery man's [.09] |
| –085.36+ | Welsh Cymraeg: Welsh (a Celtic language, like Irish) |
| –085.36+ | Manx (a Celtic language, like Irish) |
| –085.36+ | bespoke: commissioned, tailor-made (as opposed to ready-made) |
| –085.36+ | Mamertine: ancient Roman prison |
| –085.36+ | meantime |
| –085.36+ | deposing: testifying |
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