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199.01debths in that mormon's thames, be questing and handsetl, hop,
199.01+deaths in the morning Times (The Times) [.02]
199.01+Mormon (Cluster: Rivers)
199.01+Thames (Cluster: Rivers)
199.01+by question and answer
199.01+handsel: a gift for good luck on entering upon a new situation; the first specimen of anything, an auspicious first taste; earnest money, anything given as a pledge
199.01+German Handzettel: handbill
199.01+Hop (Cluster: Rivers)
199.01+phrase hop, step and leap: the athletic event now called triple jump; a short distance
199.02step and a deepend, with his berths in their toiling moil, his swal-
199.02+deep end (burial at sea)
199.02+births in the Daily Mail (Daily Mail) [.01]
199.02+VI.B.8.212a (g): 'The Toiling Moil DM' ('ing' overwrites a 'y')
199.02+Rochester: Sodom final speech (p. 58): (of the difference between men in women in capacity for multiple orgasms) 'MADAM SWIVIA IN THE PRAISE OF HER CUNT... Whilst men do toil and moil spend their strength, The pleasure does to us rebound at length'
199.02+moil: to labour hard
199.02+Moi (Cluster: Rivers)
199.02+Sea of Moyle: the strait between Ireland and Scotland, situated to the north of the Irish Sea
199.02+(mouth)
199.03lower open from swolf to fore and the snipes of the gutter pecking
199.03+German zwölf: twelve
199.03+twelve to four
199.03+guttersnipes
199.03+snipe (bird)
199.03+sandpipers and plovers remove leeches from mouths of crocodiles
199.03+Peck (Cluster: Rivers)
199.04his crocs, hungerstriking all alone and holding doomsdag over
199.04+French Slang crocs: teeth
199.04+Crocodile (Cluster: Rivers)
199.04+VI.B.10.039j (r): 'hunger strike (Irish-Uncle W)'
199.04+Ibsen: other works: Et Vers: 'At digte, — det er at holde dommedag over sig selv' (Norwegian A Verse: 'To write, — that is to hold doomsday over oneself')
199.05hunselv, dreeing his weird, with his dander up, and his fringe
199.05+Hunse (Cluster: Rivers)
199.05+Danish hunselv: she herself
199.05+to dree one's weird: to suffer one's destiny
199.05+Weir, Australia (Cluster: Rivers)
199.05+Dande (Cluster: Rivers)
199.05+Colloquial phrase get (one's) dander up: become angry
199.05+fringe: a portion of the front hair brushed forward and cut short
199.05+VI.B.6.064j (r): 'hariblinded eye (Dane)'
199.05+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 62 (sec. 59): (quoting from an Old English private letter) ''it is a shame for all of you to give up the English customs of your fathers... when you dress shamefully in Danish wise with bared neck and blinded eyes' (with hair falling over the eyes?)'
199.06combed over his eygs and droming on loft till the sight of the
199.06+VI.B.6.066s ( ): 'battle of eye & egg' [.16]
199.06+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 68 (sec. 69): 'Caxton... gives us a graphic description of the struggle between the native ey and the Scandinavian egg'
199.06+Dutch droomen: to dream
199.06+Drome (Cluster: Rivers)
199.06+VI.B.6.067d (r): 'on loft'
199.06+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 69 (sec. 70): 'on lofte, now aloft' (Middle English)
199.06+Obsolete loft: sky, air
199.07sternes, after zwarthy kowse and weedy broeks and the tits of
199.07+VI.B.6.066m (r): 'sterne'
199.07+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 67 (sec. 68): 'one of the forms has in course of time been completely crowded out by the other. The surviving form is often the native form, as in the following instances:... star — sterne' [.16]
199.07+German Stern: Danish stjerne: star
199.07+Sterne
199.07+(night)
199.07+Dutch zwarte kousen en wijde broek: black stockings and baggy trousers, black socks and baggy pants
199.07+Dutch zwarte kousen en witte broek: black stockings and white trousers, black socks and white pants (Motif: dark/fair)
199.07+Zwarte (Cluster: Rivers)
199.07+Kowsha (Cluster: Rivers)
199.07+Willibroek Canal
199.08buddy and the loits of pest and to peer was Parish worth thette
199.08+Budapest: capital of Hungary
199.08+Ibsen: all plays: Peer Gynt
199.08+Henri IV: 'Paris vaut bien une messe' (French 'Paris is worth a mass'; Henri IV converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1593 to secure his position)
199.08+Worth (Cluster: Rivers)
199.08+Thet (Cluster: Rivers)
199.09mess. You'd think all was dodo belonging to him how he durmed
199.09+Mess (Cluster: Rivers)
199.09+VI.B.5.030j (r): 'think all was dead belonging to him'
199.09+Dodo (Cluster: Rivers)
199.09+French Childish dodo: sleep
199.09+Kiswahili dodo: a young woman's breast before it has fallen
199.09+Balfe: The Bohemian Girl: song I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls
199.09+Durme (Cluster: Rivers)
199.10adranse in durance vaal. He had been belching for severn years.
199.10+Adra (Cluster: Rivers)
199.10+Drance (Cluster: Rivers)
199.10+trance
199.10+Archaic phrase in durance vile: imprisoned for a notably long time
199.10+Burns: Esopus to Maria 57: 'in durance vile'
199.10+Durance (Cluster: Rivers)
199.10+Transvaal: a province of South Africa
199.10+Vaal (Cluster: Rivers)
199.10+VI.B.5.047g (r): 'I have been belching for over a year'
199.10+Severn (Cluster: Rivers)
199.10+several
199.11And there she was, Anna Livia, she darent catch a winkle of
199.11+VI.B.6.101b (r): '*A* never sleeps'
199.11+Darent (Cluster: Rivers)
199.11+daren't
199.11+Wink (Cluster: Rivers)
199.11+wink
199.12sleep, purling around like a chit of a child, Wendawanda, a finger-
199.12+wend: to flow, run
199.12+Wende (Cluster: Rivers)
199.12+Kiswahili wanda: a finger's breadth or thickness (smallest unit of measurement)
199.12+Wandle (Cluster: Rivers)
199.12+wander
199.12+Danish vand: water
199.12+German fingerdick: as thick as a finger
199.13thick, in a Lapsummer skirt and damazon cheeks, for to ishim
199.13+Estonian laps: Finnish lapsi: child [.12]
199.13+Lapland has a short summer (hence, short skirt)
199.13+William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night II.4.122: 'She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek'
199.13+damson: a type of dark purple plum
199.13+Amazon (Cluster: Rivers)
199.13+Archaic for to: in order to
199.13+wish him
199.13+Ishim (Cluster: Rivers)
199.14bonzour to her dear dubber Dan. With neuphraties and sault
199.14+French bonjour: good day
199.14+Motif: Dear Dirty Dublin
199.14+Serbo-Croatian dobar dan: good day, good afternoon
199.14+Dapper Dan: nickname for a man who is particular about his dress and grooming
199.14+Dan (Cluster: Rivers)
199.14+new
199.14+Euphrates (Cluster: Rivers)
199.14+Anglo-Irish praties: potatoes
199.14+salt
199.14+sault: waterfall
199.15from his maggias. And an odd time she'd cook him up blooms
199.15+his maggers [031.10]
199.15+Maggia (Cluster: Rivers)
199.15+VI.B.6.120c (r): 'wd cook only an odd time'
199.15+Irish Times 31 Jan 1924, 3/4: 'Wife's Petition for Divorce. Allegations of Cruelty': 'Asked what work his wife did, he replied: "No work, and she would cook only an odd time"'
199.15+(Joyce: Ulysses.18.1: (Molly Bloom thinking about Leopold Bloom) 'Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City Arms hotel'; Joyce: Ulysses.18.1431: 'and Im to be slooching around down in the kitchen to get his lordship his breakfast')
199.15+VI.B.6.067i (r): 'bloom (lump of)'
199.15+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 69 (sec. 71): 'In some words the old native form has survived, but has adopted the signification attached in Scandinavian to the corresponding word... bloom (OE. bloma 'mass of metal')' (Old English)
199.15+Bloem (Cluster: Rivers)
199.16of fisk and lay to his heartsfoot her meddery eygs, yayis, and
199.16+VI.B.6.066k (r): 'fisk naken' (only first word crayoned)
199.16+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 67 (sec. 68): 'one of the forms has in course of time been completely crowded out by the other. The surviving form is often the native form, as in the following instances:... fish — fisk | naked — naken' [.07]
199.16+Danish fisk: fish
199.16+Lay, France (Cluster: Rivers)
199.16+VI.B.14.102d (r): 'lay to heart'
199.16+lay at his feet
199.16+eggs [.06]
199.16+Kiswahili yayi: egg
199.17staynish beacons on toasc and a cupenhave so weeshywashy of
199.17+Danish bacon on toast and a cup and a half
199.17+beacon on coast
199.17+beans on toast
199.17+Danish København: Copenhagen (Motif: Copenhagen)
199.17+wishy-washy: lacking in character or decisiveness; (of liquid) thin and weak
199.18Greenland's tay or a dzoupgan of Kaffue mokau an sable or
199.18+green tea
199.18+Anglo-Irish tay: tea (reflecting pronunciation)
199.18+Tay, Scotland (Cluster: Rivers)
199.18+Dzo (Cluster: Rivers)
199.18+Dzubgan (Cluster: Rivers)
199.18+dozen (cups)
199.18+soup-can
199.18+French soupçon: suspicion; "drop", small quantity
199.18+Oup (Cluster: Rivers)
199.18+German Kaffee Mokka: mocha coffee
199.18+Kafue (Cluster: Rivers)
199.18+Mokau (Cluster: Rivers)
199.18+Au Sable, United States (Cluster: Rivers)
199.18+French sablé: a type of shortbread biscuit (literally 'sandy')
199.18+Heraldry sable: black
199.19Sikiang sukry or his ale of ferns in trueart pewter and a shin-
199.19+Sikiang (Cluster: Rivers)
199.19+Sukri (Cluster: Rivers)
199.19+French sucré: sugared, sweetened, candied
199.19+Ale (Cluster: Rivers)
199.19+Isle of Man
199.19+Matthew 16:18: 'thou art Peter, and upon this rock'
199.19+Shinko (Cluster: Rivers)
199.19+German Schinkenbrot: ham sandwich
199.20kobread (hamjambo, bana?) for to plaise that man hog stay his
199.20+ham
199.20+Ham (Cluster: Rivers)
199.20+Kiswahili hujambo, bana?: (a greeting) are you not unwell, master?, how are you, sir? (Motif: How are you today, my dark/fair sir?)
199.20+Jam, Iran (Cluster: Rivers)
199.20+Jambi (Cluster: Rivers)
199.20+French jambon: ham
199.20+Bana (Cluster: Rivers)
199.20+Archaic for to: in order to
199.20+VI.B.6.067a (r): 'plaise'
199.20+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 68 (sec. 69): (quoting Caxton) 'what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges or eyren. Certaynly it is harde to playse every man, by cause of dyversite & chaunge of langage' (Middle English)
199.20+VI.B.1.076d (r): 'that man stomicker'
199.20+Danish og: and
199.20+VI.B.6.078j (r): 'stay his stomach'
199.21stomicker till her pyrraknees shrunk to nutmeg graters while her
199.21+stomacher: kind of waistcoat
199.21+Tomi (Cluster: Rivers)
199.21+Pyrrha: wife of Deucalion [197.03]
199.21+Louis XIV: 'Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées' (French 'There are no more Pyrenees'; referring to the France-Spain border, on the accession of his grandson to the throne of Spain, 1700) [330.09]
199.21+pair of knees
199.21+garters
199.22togglejoints shuck with goyt and as rash as she'd russ with her
199.22+toggle joint: two pieces hinged edgeways
199.22+double joints
199.22+toe joints
199.22+shook
199.22+gout: recurrent painful inflammation and swelling of the joints (especially of the big toe)
199.22+Goyt (Cluster: Rivers)
199.22+Obsolete rash: rashly, quickly
199.22+Russ (Cluster: Rivers)
199.22+VI.B.1.122o (r): 'rush'
199.23peakload of vivers up on her sieve (metauwero rage it swales and
199.23+(mountain peak)
199.23+packload
199.23+Slang vivers: food
199.23+Vivero (Cluster: Rivers)
199.23+rivers
199.23+phrase something up one's sleeve: a secret plan
199.23+Sieve (Cluster: Rivers)
199.23+Metauro (Cluster: Rivers)
199.23+my towering rage
199.23+German ragen: to rise, to tower, to loom
199.23+Swale (Cluster: Rivers)
199.23+swells and rises
199.24rieses) my hardey Hek he'd kast them frome him, with a stour
199.24+German Riese: giant
199.24+Hardey (Cluster: Rivers)
199.24+Hekla: volcano, Iceland
199.24+Danish kaste: throw
199.24+VI.B.6.114e (r): 'cast from him (breakfast)'
199.24+Frome (Cluster: Rivers)
199.24+Stour (Cluster: Rivers)
199.24+stare
199.24+VI.B.6.111k (r): 'scowl'
199.24+Lamy: Commentarium in Librum Geneseos I.256: (of Cain's mark) 'Qui probabilius loquuntur dicunt vel torvum ac truculentum fuisse aspectum qui omnibus terrorem incuteret' (Latin 'Some say, which is more likely, that his face was both grim and ferocious, which frightened everybody' (Genesis 4:15))
199.25of scorn, as much as to say you sow and you sozh, and if he didn't
199.25+Sow (Cluster: Rivers)
199.25+Motif: So and so
199.25+Sozh (Cluster: Rivers)
199.26peg the platteau on her tawe, believe you me, she was safe
199.26+VI.B.6.120d (r): 'pegged a cup of hot tea at her'
199.26+Irish Times 31 Jan 1924, 3/4: 'Wife's Petition for Divorce. Allegations of Cruelty': 'She also "pegged" a cup of hot tea across the table at him'
199.26+Platte (Cluster: Rivers)
199.26+the plate on her toe
199.26+Tawe (Cluster: Rivers)
199.27enough. And then she'd esk to vistule a hymn, The Heart Bowed
199.27+Esk (Cluster: Rivers)
199.27+ask to whistle to him
199.27+Vistula (Cluster: Rivers)
199.27+proverb A whistling girl and a crowing hen always come to some bad end (either because they are, alongside black cats, considered most unlucky, or because women should know their proper place, or both) [.30]
199.27+Balfe: song The Heart Bowed Down
199.27+Heart, United States (Cluster: Rivers)
199.28Down or The Rakes of Mallow or Chelli Michele's La Calumnia è
199.28+song The Rakes of Mallow
199.28+Michael Kelly: Dublin composer and tenor (subject of Ellis: The Life of Michael Kelly)
199.28+Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville): song 'La Calumnia è un venticello': 'Calumny is like a breeze'
199.29un Vermicelli or a balfy bit ov old Jo Robidson. Sucho fuffing a
199.29+vermicelli pasta (literally 'little worms')
199.29+Balfe: Irish composer, wrote the Bohemian Girl
199.29+beat
199.29+or
199.29+such a
199.29+Suchio (Cluster: Rivers)
199.29+Motif: A/O
199.29+phrase fussing and fighting: continuous altercation
199.29+Scottish fuffing: puffing (of wind); angry spitting (of cat); burst of ill temper
199.30fifeing 'twould cut you in two! She'd bate the hen that crowed
199.30+phrase bite the hand that feeds you: repay kindness with ingratitude, turn against someone you depend on
199.30+beat
199.30+Hen (Cluster: Rivers)
199.30+crowing hen [.27]
199.31on the turrace of Babbel. What harm if she knew how to cockle
199.31+Latin turris: tower
199.31+terrace
199.31+Tower of Babel
199.32her mouth! And not a mag out of Hum no more than out of the
199.32+VI.B.3.129d (r): 'not a mag out of him'
199.32+phrase not a sound out of him: he is completely silent, he says nothing
199.32+Joyce: Ulysses.6.950: (of a bird) 'Not a budge out of him' (Colloquial budgie: budgerigar; Colloquial mag: magpie)
199.32+Anglo-Irish not a meg: not a sound
199.32+Colloquial mag: talk, chatter (Slang halfpenny)
199.33mangle weight. Is that a faith? That's the fact. Then riding the
199.33+VI.B.1.130j (r): === VI.B.1.085f (r): 'mangle'
199.33+mangle weight: washerwoman's tool
199.33+mangel-wurzel
199.33+French fait: fact
199.33+writing
199.34ricka and roya romanche, Annona, gebroren aroostokrat Nivia,
199.34+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore
199.34+Roya (Cluster: Rivers)
199.34+Romanche (Cluster: Rivers)
199.34+French La Manche: English Channel
199.34+Annona: in Roman mythology, the divine personification of Rome's grain supply
199.34+German geboren: Dutch geboren: born
199.34+Ebro (Cluster: Rivers)
199.34+Aroostook (Cluster: Rivers)
199.34+aristocrat
199.34+Nive (Cluster: Rivers)
199.35dochter of Sense and Art, with Sparks' pirryphlickathims funkl-
199.35+Dutch dochter: daughter
199.35+Sense (Cluster: Rivers)
199.35+science
199.35+Arta (Cluster: Rivers)
199.35+sparks (of fire)
199.35+Dialect pirry: blast of wind
199.35+Pyriphlegethon, Hades (river of fire; from Greek pyr: fire + Greek phlegeton: burning, blazing, sparkling; Cluster: Rivers)
199.35+flick at him
199.35+flickering
199.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: 'funkl-' on .35, 'ing' on .36} | {Png: 'funk-' on .35, 'ling' on .36}
199.35+German Funke: spark
199.35+German funkeln: to sparkle
199.36ing her fan, anner frostivying tresses dasht with virevlies, —
199.36+Fan (Cluster: Rivers)
199.36+Anner (Cluster: Rivers)
199.36+and her frostifying
199.36+Dasht (Cluster: Rivers)
199.36+Vire (Cluster: Rivers)
199.36+fireflies
199.36+Danish hvirvel: whirlpool, eddy
199.36+Vlie Strait
199.36+Dutch vlies: fleece, membrane, film
199.36+Danish is: ice


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