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233.01and if he hadn't got it toothick he'd a telltale tall of his pitcher
–233.01+toothache [231.11]
–233.01+tell a tall tale [366.28]
–233.01+tale told (Motif: Tale told of Shaun or Shem)
–233.01+picture on a wall [438.13] [587.14] [598.21]
–233.01+proverb The pitcher will go to the well once too often: a period of good luck will eventually end (inevitable reversal of fortune)
–233.01+the villain in Farquhar's Sir Harry Wildair tries to deceive Sir Harry by means of a picture of his supposedly dead wife, Angelica, who pretends to be her own ghost [.05] [.08]
233.02on a wall with his photure in the papers for cutting moutonlegs
–233.02+future
–233.02+phrase cut capers: to dance happily, to frolic
–233.02+French mouton: sheep (Motif: goat/sheep)
233.03and capers, letting on he'd jest be japers and his tail cooked up.
–233.03+Latin caper: male goat
–233.03+capers: the flower-buds of a shrub, eaten pickled
–233.03+Archaic jest: Archaic jape: a joke, a prank
–233.03+just
–233.03+P.W. Joyce: English as We Speak It in Ireland 61: 'Did you ever see the devil With the wooden spade and shovel Digging praties for his supper And his tail cocked up'
233.04     Goal! It's one by its length.
–233.04+phrase won by a length: in horse racing, the winner finished a full horse length (about 8 feet) ahead of the second place
233.05     Angelinas, hide from light those hues that your sin beau may
–233.05+Angelica [.01]
–233.05+Chinese hsin: new
–233.05+pantomime Sinbad the Sailor
–233.05+Scottish ain: own
–233.05+rainbow
233.06bring to light! Though down to your dowerstrip he's bent to
–233.06+tonight
–233.06+doorstep
233.07knee he maun't know ledgings here.
–233.07+see
–233.07+knowledge
–233.07+children's game Three Sailors: 'Shall we have lodgings here?'
–233.07+leggings
233.08     For a haunting way will go and you need not make your mow.
–233.08+(ghost) [.01]
–233.08+song 'A-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go, We'll catch a fox and put him in a box, and then we'll let him go'
233.09Find the frenge for frocks and translace it into shocks of such as
–233.09+French [.21-.25] (Joyce: A Portrait IV: 'Les jupes... The names of articles of dress worn by women or of certain soft and delicate stuffs used in their making brought always to his mind a delicate and sinful perfume')
–233.09+fringe
–233.09+translate
–233.09+lace
–233.09+socks
–233.09+such and such, so and so (Motif: So and so)
233.10touch with show and show.
–233.10+Slang touch: copulate
233.11     He is guessing at hers for all he is worse, the seagoer. Hark to
–233.11+(Glugg has to guess the colour of Izod's drawers)
–233.11+worth
–233.11+seeker
233.12his wily geeses goosling by, and playfair, lady! And note that they
–233.12+wild guesses
–233.12+Wild Geese: thousands of Irish Jacobite soldiers who departed to Europe after the Treaty of Limerick in 1691
–233.12+phrase wild goose chase: a lengthy and futile quest
–233.12+Obsolete goosling: gosling, young goose
–233.12+Colloquial phrase play fair: play by the rules, do not cheat
–233.12+Playfair: a famous transposition cipher used for encryption by the British army in the 19th and 20th centuries (invented by Wheatstone and named after Lord Playfair who promoted it)
–233.12+children's game London Bridge: 'my fair lady'
–233.12+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...lady! And...} | {Png: ...lady. And...}
–233.12+VI.B.32.202a (r): 'those who will be exiled speak 'can' for 'dog' those who will rise in life speak now for no'
233.13who will for exile say can for dog while them that won't leave
–233.13+for example
–233.13+Joyce: Exiles
–233.13+Latin canis: dog
–233.13+Irish con-: dog-, canine-
233.14ingle end says now for know.
–233.14+England
–233.14+now, know, no
233.15     For he faulters how he hates to trouble them without.
–233.15+VI.B.33.174b (g): 'I faltered'
–233.15+fault
–233.15+VI.B.33.175e (g): 'I have to trouble you with'
–233.15+Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 79: (Walter Frampton, counsel for Thompson, examining Thompson) 'The next letter I have to trouble you with is the one dated 1st April'
–233.15+with, but
233.16     But leaving codhead's mitre and the heron's plumes sinistrant
–233.16+{{Synopsis: II.1.2.S: [233.16-233.28]: Glugg's second guess at the colour — yellow/month/French}}
–233.16+Slang codhead: a fool
–233.16+Godhead
–233.16+VI.B.33.077e (r): 'mitre = fish's head'
–233.16+three ostrich feathers on badge of Prince of Wales as Heir Apparent
–233.16+VI.B.33.078a (r): 'plumes on left to not impede swording'
–233.16+Latin sinistra: left hand
233.17to the server of servants and rex of regums and making a bolder-
–233.17+Joyce: Ulysses.1.312: 'A servant too. A server of a servant'
–233.17+Latin servus servorum Christi: slave of the slaves of Christ (title of the pope)
–233.17+Latin rex regum: king of kings
–233.17+VI.B.33.070c (r): 'made a balderdash for freedom of speech'
–233.17+phrase make a dash for: run quickly toward
–233.17+balderdash: nonsense
–233.17+bolder dash
233.18dash for lubberty of speech he asks not have you seen a match
–233.18+liberty of speech
–233.18+VI.B.33.089c (r): 'Saw a match being struck'
–233.18+Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson 19: (John Webber's evidence) 'I saw a match being struck'
–233.18+Ogden & Richards: The Meaning of Meaning 138-172: uses the example of a match being struck leading to the expectation of a flame in discussing the theory of signs
233.19being struck nor is this powder mine but, letting punplays pass
–233.19+yellow phosphorous powder used in early (non-safety) matches
–233.19+VI.B.33.071c (r): 'play passes into earnest'
–233.19+Young: Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson xix: 'It is extremely probable that he entered into this grim and shocking game of correspondence about poisoning meaning it as little as she did... they had worked themselves up too far; what had been grim play had to become grim earnest'
–233.19+Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (a play punning on the name Earnest)
233.20to ernest:
–233.20+
233.21    — Haps thee jaoneofergs?
–233.21+(guess #2 (yellow/month/French): heliotrope flowers follow the sun, which is yellow; Motif: heliotrope; Cluster: Months) [225.22] [253.17]
–233.21+French jaune: yellow
–233.21+Joan of Arc (French)
–233.21+January, February (Cluster: Months)
–233.21+Irish fearg: anger
–233.21+of eggs
233.22    — Nao.
–233.22+Chinese nao: vex, disturb, brawl
–233.22+Joyce: Ulysses.13.68: '-Nao... Nao... Nao'
–233.22+Portuguese nao: no
233.23    — Haps thee mayjaunties?
–233.23+Algernon Charles Swinburne: May Janet (a poem)
–233.23+May, June (Cluster: Months)
–233.23+magenta: a purplish-red colour
–233.23+French méchantes: wicked, spiteful (feminine plural)
–233.23+French mes gentilles: my gentle, my graceful (feminine plural)
–233.23+French jaune: yellow
–233.23+jaundice
233.24    — Naohao.
–233.24+Chinese hao: good
233.25    — Haps thee per causes nunsibellies?
–233.25+perhaps
–233.25+Latin per causas nuntiatas belli: through the declared causes of the war
–233.25+Italian per caso: by chance
–233.25+(Joyce: Letters I.154: letter 05/01/21 to Italo Svevo: 'a rubber band having the colour of a nun's belly' (i.e. yellowish, possibly in reference to the colour of Barriga de Freira, a famous Portuguese pastry (literally Portuguese 'nun's belly'))) [095.36]
–233.25+French nulle si belle: none so beautiful (feminine)
–233.25+(November, December; Cluster: Months)
–233.25+Giuseppe Gioachino Belli: 19th century Italian poet, famous for his sonnets (two of which are entitled 'Le Moniche' ('The Nuns') and 'La Nunziata' ('The Annunciation'))
233.26    — Naohaohao.
–233.26+
233.27    — Asky, asky, asky! Gau on! Micaco! Get!
–233.27+Basque aski: enough
–233.27+Welsh gau: a lie, lying
–233.27+Basque gau on: good night
–233.27+go on!
–233.27+Italian mi caco: I shit myself (really, or figuratively for fear)
–233.27+Amaro micco: victim (chosen for theft); simpleton, blockhead; newly-come prisoner
–233.27+Anglo-Irish get: bastard
233.28     Ping an ping nwan ping pwan pong.
–233.28+Chinese P'ing-an: peaceful
233.29     And he did a get, their anayance, and slink his hook away,
–233.29+{{Synopsis: II.1.2.T: [233.29-234.05]: he flees again — from the mocking girls}}
–233.29+annoyance
–233.29+Basque anaia: brother
–233.29+VI.B.31.194g (r): 'slink yr hook away'
–233.29+Douglas: London Street Games 34: (a chant) 'The black man said (or: My mother said) That you are A., If you do not want to play, You can sling your hook away' (children's game)
–233.29+Slang phrase sling one's hook: to leave (usually hastily or stealthily); to die
–233.29+phrase slink away: to leave stealthily
233.30aleguere come alaguerre, like a chimista inchamisas, whom the
–233.30+Basque alegera: happy
–233.30+French à la guerre comme à la guerre: one must make the best of a bad situation (literally 'at war as at war')
–233.30+Italian chimista: a chemist, a person experienced in chemistry (Italian alchimista: an alchemist)
–233.30+Basque tsimista: lightning
–233.30+Italian in camicia: in one's shirt; (of eggs) poached [234.01]
233.31harricana hurries and hots foots, zingo, zango, segur. To hoots
–233.31+Basque harrika: a blow from a stone
–233.31+hurricane
–233.31+Colloquial hot-foot: to hasten; to walk away quickly
–233.31+Basque hotz: cold (Colloquial phrase get cold feet: become discouraged or afraid)
–233.31+Basque zingor: mean, miserly
–233.31+Basque zango: leg, foot
–233.31+Basque segur: true, sure
–233.31+Welsh segur: idle
233.32of utskut, urqurd, jamal, qum, yallah, yawash, yak! For he could
–233.32+Norwegian utskud: scum; rabble
–233.32+Arabic uskut!: shut up!
–233.32+Arabic urqud!: calm down!, sleep!, lie down!
–233.32+Arabic jamal: camel
–233.32+Arabic qum!: stand up!
–233.32+Arabic yallah!: come on!
–233.32+Arabic yawash: slowly, gently
233.33ciappacioppachew upon a skarp snakk of pure undefallen engelsk,
–233.33+Italian Dialect ciappa: take
–233.33+Italian Obsolete cioppa: teat, to teat
–233.33+chew
–233.33+Danish skarp snakk: sharp talk
–233.33+snack
–233.33+unfallen angels
–233.33+undefiled English (Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene IV.ii.287: 'Chaucer, well of English vndefyled')
–233.33+Danish underfallen engelsk: undershot English
233.34melanmoon or tartatortoise, tsukisaki or soppisuppon, as raskly
–233.34+Greek melanos: black
–233.34+melon
–233.34+tortoise
–233.34+Japanese tsuki: moon
–233.34+Japanese sukiyaki: dish of sliced cooked beef
–233.34+Japanese saki: tip, point, end
–233.34+Japanese soppu: soup
–233.34+Beach-la-Mar pisupo: tinned food
–233.34+Japanese suppon: turtle
–233.34+Rasmus Rask: Danish philologist, said to have spoken twenty-five languages
–233.34+Danish rask: quick
–233.34+rashly
–233.34+rascally
233.35and as baskly as your cheesechalk cow cudd spanich. Makoto!
–233.35+Basque language (Basque)
–233.35+badly
–233.35+French il parle français comme une vache espagnole: he speaks French like a Spanish cow
–233.35+spinach
–233.35+Japanese makoto: indeed!; reality, truth, sincerity
233.36Whagta kriowday! Gelagala nausy is. Yet right divining do not
–233.36+what a
–233.36+Krio: the creole language of Sierra Leone
–233.36+cry out there
–233.36+Motif: Gall/Gael
–233.36+Greek gala: milk
–233.36+nauseous


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