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Elucidations found: 24

195.01slipping sly by Sallynoggin, as happy as the day is wet, bab-
195.01+Sallynoggin: district of Dún Laoghaire
195.01+Sally Gap: crossroads in Wicklow Mountains near the source of the Liffey river
195.01+phrase as happy as the day is long: very happy
195.02bling, bubbling, chattering to herself, deloothering the fields on
195.02+VI.B.6.107g (r): 'babbling'
195.02+Anglo-Irish deluthering: deluding, deceiving in a fawning manner
195.02+deluging
195.02+delighting
195.03their elbows leaning with the sloothering slide of her, giddy-
195.03+Anglo-Irish sloothering: blarney, soft-soap; coaxing, artful
195.03+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...giddygaddy...} | {Png: ...giddgaddy...}
195.03+Motif: alliteration (g)
195.03+Obsolete giddy-gaddy: an old batting game (mentioned in J.P. Earwaker: The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester)
195.04gaddy, grannyma, gossipaceous Anna Livia.
195.04+Obsolete gaddy: inclined to wander or stray idly and aimlessly
195.04+Colloquial gad: a sexually promiscuous woman; a gossip
195.04+Grania
195.04+Colloquial granny: grandmother; a gossip
195.04+Colloquial ma: mother; elderly woman
195.04+VI.B.6.090l (r): 'gossipaceous'
195.04+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 125 (sec. 123): 'Adjectives are formed... in -aceous: gossipaceous'
195.05     He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak.
195.05+lifewand, dumb, speak (Motif: Deathbone and the quick are still, Lifewand and the dumb speak) [193.29]
195.05+Lewis: Time and Western Man 170: 'The materialist of to-day is still obsessed with the wish to make this dead matter real... So he brings it to life, by pumping it full of "time"'
195.05+Isaiah 35:6: 'Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert'
195.05+Luke 11:14: (Jesus) 'was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake'
195.06    — Quoiquoiquoiquoiquoiquoiquoiq!
195.06+French quoi: what
195.06+quack (ducks)


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