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146.01me there and then cease to be? Whatever for, blossoms?) Your
–146.01+
146.02hairmejig if you had one. If I am laughing with you? No,
–146.02+VI.B.18.277i (b): 'hairymajig'
–146.02+Colloquial thingamajig (a stand-in for a forgotten word)
146.03lovingest, I'm not so dying to take my rise out of you, adored.
–146.03+phrase take a rise out of: to make (someone) the butt of a joke or hoax
146.04Not in the very least. True as God made my Mamaw hiplength
–146.04+Chiniquy: The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional 52: 'Has not Almighty God Himself made, with His own hands that coat of womanly modesty and self-respect'
146.05modesty coatmawther! It's only because the rison is I'm only any
–146.05+godmother
–146.05+Dialect mawther: young woman, young girl
–146.05+reason
–146.05+Motif: fall/rise (rise, fell) [.06]
–146.05+Italian riso: laugh
–146.05+Provençal risou: hedgehog
146.06girl, you lovely fellow of my dreams, and because old somebooby
–146.06+
146.07is not a roundabout, my trysting of the tulipies, like that puff
–146.07+around
–146.07+[095.23]
–146.07+Tristan
–146.07+Greek tou leipies: he misses you
–146.07+Greek lupes: sorrows
–146.07+Slang puff: sodomist
146.08pape bucking Daveran assoiling us behinds. What a nerve!
–146.08+assailing
146.09He thinks that's what the vesprey's for. How vain's that hope in
–146.09+Provençal vèspre: evening
–146.09+vestry
–146.09+VI.B.45.133b (o): 'L.P breaks into verse 141' (the number is a page number in the 1928 edition of Pilkington: Memoirs used by Joyce)
–146.09+Pilkington: Memoirs is interspersed throughout with the author's (i.e. Mrs Lætitia Pilkington's) verse
–146.09+(four-verse stanza) [.09-.11]
146.10cleric's heart Who still pursues th'adult' rous art, Cocksure that
–146.10+the adulterous
146.11rusty gown of his Will make fair Sue forget his phiz! Tame
–146.11+VI.B.45.132d (o): 'rusty gown'
–146.11+Pilkington: Memoirs I.89: (of Swift, in the context of a lady, who did not recognise him, refusing to sing to him) 'his Gown was generally very rusty, and his Person no way extraordinary'
–146.11+rusty: (of clothes) worn, faded, shabby
–146.11+Colloquial phiz: countenance, face, expression
–146.11+Colloquial fizz: effervescence
–146.11+(effervescent drink gone flat)
–146.11+Dean Swift
146.12Schwipps. Blessed Marguerite bosses, I hope they threw away
–146.12+German Schwips: drunkenness
–146.12+Schweppes: a company manufacturing carbonated mineral water since the 18th century
–146.12+bless us
–146.12+phrase throw away the mould: ensure the uniqueness (after making something or someone)
–146.12+(removed the fungus)
146.13the mould or else we'll have Ballshossers and Sourdamapplers
–146.13+Belshazzar: last king of Babylon
–146.13+German schoss: (he/she/it) shot
–146.13+French sourd: deaf
–146.13+Sardanapalus: last king of Assyria
146.14with their medical assassiations all over the place. But hold hard
–146.14+assassinations
–146.14+associations
146.15till I've got my latchkey vote and I'll teach him when to wear
–146.15+latchkey vote: the nickname for a new 1906 English law that allowed male lodgers renting a room in someone else's house to vote, as long as they had unrestricted access to the room at all hours (previously such lodgers could vote only by paying ten pounds a year for the privilege; older, married and educated women got the right to vote in 1918, the rest got it in 1928)
146.16what woman callours. On account of the gloss of the gleison
–146.16+what women call ours
–146.16+Roman collars
–146.16+Provençal gleisoun: church
–146.16+gleesome
–146.16+glee: song
146.17Hasaboobrawbees isabeaubel. And because, you pluckless lanka-
–146.17+nursery rhyme Hush-a-bye, Baby, on the Tree Top
–146.17+Scottish bawbee: halfpenny
–146.17+Isa Bowman: child-friend of Lewis Carroll and author of Bowman: The Story of Lewis Carroll
–146.17+La belle Isabeau: a child prophet of the Camisards (mentioned in The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. V, 'Camisards', 114a)
–146.17+Bow bells: the bells of the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow in London, famous for telling Dick Whittington to turn again in pantomime Dick Whittington and His Cat
–146.17+pluckless: devoid of courage
–146.17+luckless
–146.17+Joyce: Ulysses.6.805: 'Now who is that lankylooking galoot over there in the macintosh?'
–146.17+Lancelot: a prominent knight of King Arthur and the lover of Queen Guinevere
146.18loot, I hate the very thought of the thought of you and because,
–146.18+Joyce: Ulysses.2.74: 'Thought is the thought of thought'
146.19dearling, of course, adorest, I was always meant for an engin-
–146.19+of course... engine dear [457.32]
–146.19+Cluster: Always
–146.19+engineer
–146.19+Irish inghean: girl, young woman (now spelled 'iníon')
146.20dear from the French college, to be musband, nomme d'engien,
–146.20+French College, Blackrock, County Dublin
–146.20+my husband
–146.20+French nom d'un chien! (expletive; literally 'name of a dog')
–146.20+Duc D'Enghien: French nobleman famously and unjustly executed by Napoleon in 1804 for conspiring against France
146.21when we do and contract with encho tencho solver when you
–146.21+marriage vows: 'I do'
–146.21+Provençal encò: home
–146.21+Provençal encho: tap, cock
–146.21+Latin ego te absolvo: I absolve you (priest's formula to penitent in Roman Catholic confessional)
–146.21+Provençal tencho: tint, ink
–146.21+Provençal tenco: tench (fish)
146.22are married to reading and writing which pleasebusiness now
–146.22+phrase please God!
–146.22+business
146.23won't be long for he's so loopy on me and I'm so leapy like
–146.23+
146.24since the day he carried me from the boat, my saviored of eroes,
–146.24+Eros
–146.24+Greek erôs: passion
–146.24+heroes
146.25to the beach and I left on his shoulder one fair hair to guide hand
–146.25+King Mark decided to marry Iseult after seeing only one of her golden hairs, which a passing swallow had dropped
146.26and mind to its softness. Ever so sorry! I beg your pardon, I was
–146.26+
146.27listening to every treasuried word I said fell from my dear mot's
–146.27+Dermot: another name for Diarmuid [.29]
–146.27+French mot: word
–146.27+Dublin Slang mot: girl
146.28tongue otherwise how could I see what you were thinking of
–146.28+
146.29our granny? Only I wondered if I threw out my shaving water.
–146.29+Grania [.27]
146.30Anyway, here's my arm, pulletneck. Gracefully yours. Move your
–146.30+(offering to escort)
–146.30+Slang pullet: young girl
–146.30+(end of a letter)
146.31mouth towards minth, more, preciousest, more on more! To
–146.31+mine
–146.31+Roberto Prezioso: a Triestine journalist who was a pupil and friend of Joyce for several years, until he apparently tried to seduce Nora (Italian prezioso: precious) [147.35]
–146.31+more and more
–146.31+Irish mórán mó: much more
146.32please me, treasure. Don't be a, I'm not going to! Sh! nothing!
–146.32+
146.33A cricri somewhere! Buybuy! I'm fly! Hear, pippy, under the
–146.33+French cri: cry
–146.33+Colloquial bye-bye: goodbye
–146.33+(I'm leaving)
–146.33+Slang fly: cunning, artful, shrewd; (of women) wanton, sexually promiscuous
–146.33+Unter den Linden: a famous boulevard in Berlin (literally German Under the Linden Trees, Under the Lime Trees; these lime trees are not the same as the citrus lime trees)
146.34limes. You know bigtree are all against gravstone. They hisshis-
–146.34+Colloquial limes: limelights, theatre stage lights [146.36-147.01]
–146.34+bigotry
–146.34+Motif: tree/stone
–146.34+Danish grav: grave
–146.34+Gladstone was notorious for his hobby of felling trees [.35]
–146.34+Parnell: hesitency
146.35tenency. Garnd ond mand! So chip chirp chirrup, cigolo, for the
–146.35+Grand Old Man: an epithet applied to Gladstone by his supporters (Motif: Grand Old Man) [.34]
–146.35+Danish ond mand: bad man
–146.35+Motif: Ondt/Gracehoper
–146.35+Italian Obsolete cigolo: child
–146.35+Provençal cigalo, fournigo: cicada, ant (La Fontaine: Fables, I.1: 'La Cigale et la Fourmi' (French 'The Grasshopper and the Ant'); Motif: Ondt/Gracehoper) [414.17] [563.28]
–146.35+Italian cigolìo: squeaking
–146.35+gigolo
–146.35+Anglo-Irish Colloquial phrase for the love of Mike! (exclamation of exasperation)
146.36lug of Migo! The little passdoor, I go you before, so, and you're
–146.36+passdoor: door between stage and house in theatre
–146.36+German Ich gehe dir vor: I will precede you
–146.36+Anglo-Irish so (a common parenthetical interjection)


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