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253.01in Peruvian for in the ersebest idiom I have done it equals I so
–253.01+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Peruvian...} | {Png: ...Peruvain...}
–253.01+Peruvian: an old name for Quechua, a language spoken among indigenous people in Peru and neighbouring countries (new world language) [.03]
–253.01+Colloquial Peruvian: a pejorative name in South Africa for a Jew of eastern European origin (probably from the acronym P.R.U., standing for Polish and Russian Union, possibly augmented by there being a fair number of such Jews who emigrated to South Africa after failing to do so to South America) [.03]
–253.01+Obsolete Erse: Irish; Scottish Gaelic
–253.01+German erstbeste: first
–253.01+Dutch de eerste de beste: any, the first you meet, the first that comes along
–253.01+Irish tá sé déanta agam: I promise to do it (literally 'I have it done')
–253.01+I have done, I shall do (Motif: tenses) [.05]
253.02shall do. He dares not think why the grandmother of the grand-
–253.02+[252.35-253.02]
253.03mother of his grandmother's grandmother coughed Russky with
–253.03+Russian russkii: Russian (old world language) [.01]
253.04suchky husky accent since in the mouthart of the slove look at
–253.04+Russian suchki: whores
–253.04+German Mundart: idiom (literally 'mouth-art')
–253.04+Russian slovo: word
–253.04+Slav
–253.04+song Look At Me Now
253.05me now means I once was otherwise. Nor that the mappamund
–253.05+me now, I once (Motif: tenses) [.01]
–253.05+Latin mappa mundi: map of the world
–253.05+Italian mappamondo: geographical globe
–253.05+German Mund: mouth
253.06has been changing pattern as youth plays moves from street to
–253.06+(children's games)
253.07street since time and races were and wise ants hoarded and saute-
–253.07+Motif: Ondt/Gracehoper
–253.07+French sauterelle: grasshopper
253.08relles were spendthrifts, no thing making newthing wealthshow-
–253.08+(Motif: Tingsomingenting/Nixnixundnix)
–253.08+Ecclesiastes 1:9: 'there is no new thing under the sun'
–253.08+nothing whatsoever
–253.08+Motif: old/new
253.09ever for a silly old Sol, healthytobedder and latewiser. Nor that the
–253.09+Latin sol: sun
–253.09+proverb Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise
253.10turtling of a London's alderman is ladled out by the waggerful to
–253.10+turtle soup [.17]
–253.10+tattling
–253.10+bagful
–253.10+(earful)
253.11the regionals of pigmyland. His part should say in honour bound:
–253.11+B.B.C. Ragional Programme radio service (from 1930 to 1939)
–253.11+aboriginals
–253.11+Sydney Grundy: In Honour Bound (play, 1880)
253.12So help me symethew, sammarc, selluc and singin, I will stick to
–253.12+VI.B.9.125c (o): 'Simatew Semmark Selluc and Sengine (*X*' (the entry is preceded by a cancelled 'Sermark')
–253.12+Weekley: The Romance of Names 34: 'When the saint's name begins with a consonant, we get, instead of aphesis, a telescoped pronunciation, e.g... Semark, St. Mark... with which we may compare the educated pronunciation of St. John'
–253.12+Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke, and Saint John (Motif: 4 evangelists (Mamalujo); *X*)
253.13you, by gum, no matter what, bite simbum, and in case of the
–253.13+by God
–253.13+(gum is sticky)
–253.13+Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais II.354: 'Par sainct Bon, je jurerois... C'est saint Bont ou Bonet, Sanctus Bonitus, évêque de Clermont en Auvergne (vers 710)' (French 'by saint Bon, I would swear... It is Saint Bont or Bonet, Sanctus Bonitus, bishop of Clermont in Auvergne (around 710)')
–253.13+some
–253.13+Slang bum: buttocks
253.14event coming off beforehand even so you was to release me for
–253.14+Thomas Campbell: Lochiel's Warning: 'And coming events cast their shadows before'
253.15the sake of the other cheap girl's baby's name plaster me but I
–253.15+
253.16will pluckily well pull on the buckskin gloves! But Noodynaady's
–253.16+Colloquial pluckily: bravely
–253.16+boxing gloves
–253.16+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...gloves! But...} | {Png: ...gloves. But...}
–253.16+Anglo-Irish noody-nady: hesitant in speech (from Irish niúdar-neádar: hesitancy and Irish niúdaimí-neádaimí: a hesitant person)
253.17actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy
–253.17+tooth [231.11]
–253.17+total
–253.17+turtle [.10]
–253.17+(guess #3 (violet): heliotrope flowers are purple-violet; Motif: heliotrope) [225.22] [233.21]
–253.17+Tennyson: other works: Maud, XXII.I: 'Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown'
–253.17+German Garn: snare, decoy; yarn
–253.17+garner: granary
–253.17+thine eyes
253.18nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.
–253.18+(violet sky)
–253.18+stars
–253.18+meaning
–253.18+iodine vapour is violet (hence its name, from Greek ioeides: violet)
–253.18+(violets)
253.19     Evidentament he has failed as tiercely as the deuce before for
–253.19+{{Synopsis: II.1.6.H: [253.19-253.32]: he has failed — the girls celebrate}}
–253.19+French évidemment: evidently
–253.19+(failed a third time, like the two before)
–253.19+Motif: 2&3 (tierce, deuce)
–253.19+Obsolete tierce: a third part
–253.19+fiercely
–253.19+Colloquial the deuce: the devil (in the game, the Devil comes over three times)
–253.19+deuce: two at dice or cards
253.20she is wearing none of the three. And quite as patenly there is a
–253.20+paten: a dish for the bread at the celebration of the Eucharist
–253.20+patently
–253.20+P.W. Joyce: English as We Speak It in Ireland 189: 'When a person singing a song has to stop because he forgets the next verse, he says (mostly in joke) 'there's a hole in the ballad'' (Anglo-Irish) [211.19]
253.21hole in the ballet trough which the rest fell out. Because to ex-
–253.21+bucket
–253.21+through
253.22plain why the residue is, was, or will not be, according to the
–253.22+is, was, will not be (Motif: tenses)
253.23eighth axiom, proceeded with, namely, since ever apart that gos-
–253.23+Anglo-Irish gossoons: young lads
253.24san duad, so sure as their's a patch on a pomelo, this yam ham in
–253.24+duad: pair
–253.24+phrase sure as there's a tail on a cat
–253.24+pomelo: a type of citrus (called, in England, 'forbidden fruit')
–253.24+Russian pomelo: broom
–253.24+Ham: son of Noah
253.25never live could, the shifting about of the lassies, the tug of love
–253.25+Greek thalassa: sea
–253.25+Scottish lassie: girl, young woman
253.26of their lads ending with a great deal of merriment, hoots,
–253.26+Land's End, Cornwall (the most westerly point of mainland England)
253.27screams, scarf drill, cap fecking, ejaculations of aurinos, reecho-
–253.27+Anglo-Irish Slang fecking: stealing
–253.27+Provençal aurino: golden
–253.27+urine
–253.27+re-echo-able
253.28able mirthpeals and general thumbtonosery (Myama's a yaung
–253.28+Motif: thumb to nose
–253.28+Burmese Myamma: Burma
–253.28+Miami
253.29yaung cauntry), one must recken with the sudden and gigant-
–253.29+young country
–253.29+German recken: to stretch
–253.29+reckon
253.30esquesque appearance unwithstandable as a general election in
–253.30+
253.31Barnado's bearskin amongst the brawlmiddle of this village chil-
–253.31+Barnado's furriers, Grafton Street, Dublin
–253.31+Thomas Barnardo: 19th-20th cenrury Dublin-born British philantropist and founder of numerous orphanages (called 'Dr. Barnardo's Homes')
–253.31+Anglo-Irish childer: children
–253.31+kindergarten
253.32dergarten of the largely longsuffering laird of Lucanhof.
–253.32+German Garten: garden
–253.32+Motif: alliteration (l)
–253.32+(*E*)
–253.32+George Bingham, third Earl of Lucan, on one occasion returned unexpectedly to his estate in Castlebar, County Mayo, to find the villagers burning his effigy (Lucan)
–253.32+German Hof: court
253.33     But, vrayedevraye Blankdeblank, god of all machineries and
–253.33+{{Synopsis: II.1.6.I: [253.33-255.26]: the father appears — he is analysed}}
–253.33+prayer Symbole de Nicée: 'Dieu de Dieu, lumière de lumière, vrai Dieu de vrai Dieu' (French Nicene Creed (Credo): 'God from God, light from light, true God from true God')
–253.33+Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais II.347: 'Vraybis! vrai Dieu, formule fréquente chez Rabelais' (French 'Vraybis! true God, a frequent formula with Rabelais')
–253.33+Tennyson: other works: Lady Clara Vere de Vere
–253.33+Colloquial blankety blank: a euphemism for damned damn (expletive)
–253.33+French blanc: white
–253.33+Latin deus ex machina: providential intervention, a plot device resolving a seemingly unsolvable situation in an unexpected and unlikely manner (literally 'god from the machine')
253.34tomestone of Barnstaple, by mortisection or vivisuture, splitten
–253.34+VI.B.27.117b (o): 'tomestone (Barnstaple)'
–253.34+Tome Stone: a low circular 17th century table made of stone that stood on the quayside of Barnstaple (a river-port town in Devon, England) and was touched by negotiating merchants to signify that a deal was sealed (now on display at Queen Anne's Walk, Barnstaple)
–253.34+tombstone
–253.34+Latin mortisectio: I cut up (something) dead
–253.34+vivisection
253.35up or recompounded, an isaac jacquemin mauromormo milesian,
–253.35+Isaac Jackson: The Milesian (a play)
–253.35+Isaac, Jacob
–253.35+General Jacqueminot
–253.35+jacobin: a political radical (from the Jacobin faction in the French Revolution)
–253.35+Greek Artificial mauromormô: dark bugbear
–253.35+Latin Maurus: Moorish, dark-skinned
–253.35+Mormon
253.36how accountibus for him, moreblue?
–253.36+Latin -ibus (plural, dative or ablative)
–253.36+French Morbleu! (expletive)
–253.36+Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais II.346: 'Corbieu!... atténuation de Corps Dieu! ou corps de Dieu' (French 'Corbieu!... attenuation of Corps Dieu! or body of God')


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