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379.01barke's echo! Kick nuck, Knockcastle! Muck! And you'll nose it,
–379.01+bark [378.33]
–379.01+Ticknock: village, County Dublin
–379.01+Motif: Mick/Nick
–379.01+Castleknock: area west of Phoenix Park
–379.01+Irish muc: pig
–379.01+Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 24: song Katy's Letter: 'I loved him faithfully, And he knows it — oh, he knows it — without one word from me' (Katy doesn't put her love's name on the envelope for fear of nosy neighbours; originally, by Lady Dufferin: song Katey's Song)
–379.01+William Shakespeare: Hamlet IV.3.36: 'you shall nose him'
–379.01+know
379.02O you'll nose it, without warnward from we. We don't know the
–379.02+one word from me
379.03sendor to whome. But you'll find Chiggenchugger's taking the
–379.03+sender to whom (Motif: The Letter)
–379.03+or
–379.03+Colloquial phrase take the cake: be an extreme example of (especially of outrageous behaviour)
379.04Treaclyshortcake with Bugle and the Bitch pairsadrawsing and
–379.04+Treacle Tom and Frisky Shorty
–379.04+Bugle and Bitch: nickname for Hound and Horn magazine
–379.04+pair of drawers
–379.04+Motif: 2&3 (pair, three)
379.05Horssmayres Prosession tyghting up under the threes. Stop.
–379.05+horse and mare
–379.05+Lord-Mayor's procession
–379.05+tighting
–379.05+trees
–379.05+Motif: Stop, please stop... [.05-.06]
379.06Press stop. To press stop. All to press stop. And be the seem
–379.06+phrase by the same token: for the same reason
379.07talkin wharabahts hosetanzies, dat sure is sullibrated word! Bing
–379.07+what about
–379.07+Parnell: hesitency
–379.07+German Hose: trousers
–379.07+German Tanz: dance
–379.07+Dutch dat: Anglo-Irish dat: that
–379.07+celebrated
–379.07+bing bong [378.17]
–379.07+Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 415 (XXI.2): 'A closely related theory is the nativistic, nicknamed the ding-dong, theory according to which there is a mystic harmony between sound and sense' [378.32]
–379.07+Motif: Pingpong, the bell for Sechseläuten, and concepit de Saint-Esprit [.07-.08]
379.08bong! Saxolooter, for congesters are salders' prey. Snap it up in
–379.08+Sechseläuten: Zurich spring festival, celebrating the end of winter, on the Monday following the vernal equinox, by church bell ringing at 6 p.m. and by burning of an exploding effigy of Böögg, a personification of winter (Swiss German Sechseläuten: six o'clock pealing of bells)
–379.08+Saxon looter (i.e. British soldier)
–379.08+congester: a 19th century device for treating erectile disfunction, similar to modern penis pumps
–379.08+Congested Districts Board in Ireland, late 19th century
–379.08+prayer Angelus: 'et concepit de Spiritu Sancto' (Latin 'and she conceived of the Holy Ghost')
–379.08+French Saint-Esprit: Holy Ghost
–379.08+soldier's pay
–379.08+French solde: soldier's pay
379.09the loose, patchy the blank! Anyone can see you're the son of a
–379.09+loose: in rugby, part of game in which ball is not in possession of any player
–379.09+patch, blank [063.05]
–379.09+Colloquial son of a gun: a euphemism for son of a bitch (Motif: Son of a bitch)
–379.09+Daniel O'Connell (rumoured to have had a number of illegitimate children)
379.10gunnell. Fellow him up too, Carlow! Woes to the worm-
–379.10+gunnel: a type of fish
–379.10+song Follow Me Up to Carlow
–379.10+Latin vae victis: woe to the vanquished
379.11quashed, aye, and wor to the winner! Think of Aerian's Wall and
–379.11+Hadrian's Wall
379.12the Fall of Toss. Give him another for to volleyholleydoodlem!
–379.12+Archaic for to: in order to
–379.12+Valhalla: in Norse mythology, the magnificent hall in which chosen slain heroes spend their glorious afterlife
–379.12+song Polly Wolly Doodle
379.13His lights not all out yet, the liverpooser! Boohoohoo it oose!
–379.13+Slang lights: eyes
–379.13+Liverpool
–379.13+Colloquial booser: drunkard (alcohol drinking damages liver) [074.13]
–379.13+Colloquial boose: alcoholic drink, liquor
379.14With seven hores always in the home of his thinkingthings, his
–379.14+seven holes (in his head) [.15]
–379.14+Norwegian hores: whores
379.15nodsloddledome of his noiselisslesoughts. Two Idas, two Evas,
–379.15+nice little home of his nice little thoughts
–379.15+Colloquial noddle: Colloquial dome: head
–379.15+seven holes: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and mouth (Motif: 5 senses, touch missing) [.14] [086.32]
–379.15+Motif: 7 rainbow girls [.15-.17]
379.16two Nessies and Rubyjuby. Phook! No wonder, pipes as kirles,
–379.16+Irish phúca: hobgoblin
–379.16+boys and girls
–379.16+skirls
379.17that he sthings like a rheinbok. One bed night he had the dely-
–379.17+stinks
–379.17+German Rhein: the Rhine river
–379.17+reindeer
–379.17+rainbow
–379.17+Dutch bok: male goat
–379.17+bad
–379.17+delirium
–379.17+delusions
–379.17+Elysium: the afterlife paradise in Greek mythology; a place or state of perfect happiness
379.18siums that they were all queens mobbing him. Fell stiff. Oh,
–379.18+Queen Mab (sleep)
–379.18+Motif: Full stop
–379.18+Falstaff
–379.18+(seven syllables)
–379.18+Motif: A/O
379.19ho, ho, ho, ah, he, he! Abedicate yourself. It just gegs our goad.
–379.19+Motif: 2&3 (ho x 3, he x 2) [305.F02]
–379.19+Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 415 (XXI.2): 'fourth theory, nicknamed the yo-he-ho: under any strong muscular effort it is a relief to the system to let breath come out strongly and repeatedly, and by that process to let the vocal chords vibrate in different ways' [378.32]
–379.19+abdicate
–379.19+Archaic abed: in bed
–379.19+Slang phrase gets our goat: annoys us, irritates us
379.20He'll be the deaf of us, pappappoppopcuddle, samblind daiy-
–379.20+death
–379.20+Motif: ear/eye (deaf, blind)
–379.20+Motif: A/O
–379.20+Mount Popocatepetl: volcano
–379.20+sandblind
–379.20+some fine day or other
379.21rudder. Yus, sord, fathe, you woll, putty our wraughther!
–379.21+yes, sir
–379.21+Italian sordo: deaf [.20]
–379.21+Fath: sura forty-eight of the Koran
–379.21+Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 23: song Lanty Leary: '"Faith I will," says Lanty Leary'
–379.21+German wollen: to want
–379.21+Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 40: song Paddy O'Rafther (by Samuel Lover)
–379.21+pity our daughter
379.22What we waits be after? Whyfore we come agooding? None of
–379.22+
379.23you, cock icy! You keep that henayearn and her fortycantle glim
–379.23+hen (Biddy the hen)
–379.23+Dialect of yourn: of yours
–379.23+forty candlepower
–379.23+Slang glim: candle
–379.23+Dutch glimlach: smile
379.24lookbehinder. We might do with rubiny leeses. But of all your
–379.24+German Rubin: ruby
–379.24+lenses
379.25wanings send us out your peppydecked ales and you'll not be
–379.25+nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made of?: 'puppy-dogs' tails'
379.26such a bad lot. The rye is well for whose amind but the wheateny
–379.26+wheaten loaf
379.27one is proper lovely. B E N K! We sincerestly trust that Missus
–379.27+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...B E N K!...} | {JJA 55:461: ...Beng!...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 55:487, as 'B E N G!', then edited by Joyce, quite possibly by mistake, at JJA 55:545, into 'B E N K!', rather than 'Beng!') [378.17] [.28]
379.28with the kiddies of sweet Gorteen has not B I N K to their very
–379.28+(stones being thrown at the pub) [378.17]
–379.28+B + (Motif: 5 vowels) + N K: I, U, E, A, O [.28-.30] [.27]
–379.28+Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 7: song The Maid of Sweet Gorteen
–379.28+Gorteen: village, County Longford
379.29least tittles deranged if in B U N K and we greesiously augur for
–379.29+last
–379.29+graciously
379.30your Meggers a B E N K B A N K B O N K to sloop in with
–379.30+majesty
–379.30+sleep
379.31all sorts of adceterus and adsaturas. It's our last fight, Megantic,
–379.31+etceteras
–379.31+Latin ceterus: the other
–379.31+Latin saturas: stew
–379.31+Huddie Ledbetter (a.k.a. Lead Belly): song The Titanic: 'It's your last trip, Titanic, fare thee well!'
379.32fear you will! The refergee's took to hailing to time the pass.
–379.32+referee
–379.32+refugee
–379.32+pass the time
379.33There goes the blackwatchwomen, all in white, flaxed up, pur-
–379.33+Black Watch, Highland regiment
–379.33+the washerwomen
–379.33+(valkyries)
–379.33+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...blackwatchwomen, all...} | {Png: ...blackwatchwomen all...}
–379.33+Birgad: female messenger sent by Finn three times to make terms with his enemies before his last battle [.31] (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 429-431: 'The Death of Finn')
379.34gad! Right toe, Armitage! Tem for Tam at Timmotty Hall!
–379.34+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 338: (of the comic title of the King of Dalkey) 'The last king was a bookseller named Armitage, at whose coronation 20,000 persons are said to have been present' [087.25] [616.11]
–379.34+Tem: creator in Budge: The Book of the Dead [056.34]
–379.34+song Tea for Two
–379.34+song Finnegan's Wake: 'Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake'
–379.34+Tammany Hall, New York City (symbol of corrupt democratic politics)
–379.34+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Hall! We're...} | {Png: ...Hall. We're...}
379.35We're been carried away. Beyond bournes and bowers. So we'll
–379.35+(slain carried away)
379.36leave it to Keyhoe, Danelly and Pykemhyme, the three muskrat-
–379.36+key-hole
–379.36+Kehoe, Donnelly and Pakenham: Dublin ham curers
–379.36+Dumas: The Three Musketeers (*VYC*)
–379.36+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: 'muskrat-' on 379.36, 'eers' on 380.01} | {Png: 'muskra-' on 379.36, 'teers' on 380.01}


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