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399.01And no damn loutll come courting thee or by the mother of the Holy Ghost there'll be murder!
–399.01+lout'll
399.02O, come all ye sweet nymphs of Dingle beach to cheer Brinabride queen from Sybil surfriding
–399.02+(B: PRONOUN: she; EVANGELIST: Mark; NAME: Marcus Lyons; MASTER: Michael O'Clery; ORE: silver; EVANGELIST EMBLEM: winged lion; LITURGICAL COLOUR: moonblue; DAY: Holy Tuesday; PROVINCE: Munster (South); ACCENT: Cork-Kerry)
–399.02+Motif: acronym: O ICY (acrostic) [.02-.05]
–399.02+Sybil Point on Dingle peninsula, County Kerry, Munster
–399.02+(birth of Aphrodite from foam)
–399.02+Motif: Bride of the brine [.04]
–399.02+Maud Gonne's married name was MacBride (the marriage only lasted from 1903 to 1905) [398.06] [398.29] [.11]
–399.02+bride [398.33] [.07]
399.03In her curragh of shells of daughter of pearl and her silverymonnblue mantle round her.
–399.03+Curragh of Kildare (racecourse)
–399.03+Anglo-Irish currach: light canvas boat, coracle (from Irish curach)
–399.03+mother-of-pearl: a smooth iridescent material produced by certain molluscs
–399.03+song By the Light of the Silvery Moon
–399.03+Monday (Cluster: Days)
–399.03+(women in County Kerry traditionally wear blue hooded cloaks)
399.04Crown of the waters, brine on her brow, she'll dance them a jig and jilt them fairly.
–399.04+Motif: Bride of the brine [.02]
–399.04+Motif: Brand on brow
399.05Yerra, why would she bide with Sig Sloomysides or the grogram grey barnacle gander?
–399.05+Anglo-Irish Yerra!: God!, But God! (exclamation)
–399.05+ride
–399.05+Sir
–399.05+sloomy: spiritless, dull (i.e. Tristan)
–399.05+grogram: a type of coarse fabric
–399.05+Archaic Slang grogham: horse (especially if old)
–399.05+Irish gruagan gre: grey hairdye hue
–399.05+Nora Barnacle
–399.05+barnacle geese
399.06You won't need be lonesome, Lizzy my love, when your beau gets his glut of cold meat and hot soldiering
–399.06+(C: PRONOUN: you; EVANGELIST: Luke; NAME: Luke Tarpey; MASTER: Farfassa O'Mulconry; ORE: copper; EVANGELIST EMBLEM: winged calf; LITURGICAL COLOUR: red; DAY: Spy Wednesday; PROVINCE: Leinster (East); ACCENT: Dublin)
–399.06+Issy
–399.06+French beau geste: magnanimous act (literally 'fine gesture')
–399.06+Slang cold meat: corpses
–399.06+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...hot...} | {Png: ...hos...}
399.07Nor wake in winter, window machree, but snore sung in my old Balbriggan surtout.
–399.07+weak
–399.07+widow [398.33] [.02]
–399.07+song Widow Machree
–399.07+Anglo-Irish machree: my heart
–399.07+Balbriggan: town, County Dublin, Leinster (made knit fabrics)
–399.07+surtout: overcoat
399.08Wisha, won't you agree now to take me from the middle, say, of next week on, for the balance of my days, for nothing (what?) as your own nursetender?
–399.08+Anglo-Irish wisha: well, indeed (expressing surprise or annoyance)
–399.08+German Mittwoch: Wednesday (literally 'midweek'; Cluster: Days)
–399.08+nurse-tender: sicknurse
399.09A power of highsteppers died game right enough — but who, acushla, 'll beg coppers for you?
–399.09+Slang high-stepper: fashionably dressed or mannered person
–399.09+Anglo-Irish acushla: my pulse, my darling (term of endearment)
399.10I tossed that one long before anyone.
–399.10+(D: PRONOUN: I; EVANGELIST: John; NAME: Johnny MacDougall; MASTER: Peregrine O'Duignan; ORE: iron; EVANGELIST EMBLEM: eagle; LITURGICAL COLOUR: black; DAY: Good Friday; PROVINCE: Connacht (West); ACCENT: Galway-Mayo)
399.11It was of a wet good Friday too she was ironing and, as I'm given now to understand, she was always mad gone on me.
–399.11+Anglo-Irish of: on (when referring to a day of the week or a time of the day)
–399.11+Friday (Cluster: Days)
–399.11+always gone mad on me (i.e. infatuated) [526.26]
–399.11+Maud Gonne was the love interest of W.B. Yeats for many years (he proposed to her numerous times over a period of more than 20 years, and later also proposed to her daughter Iseult, who was almost 30 years his junior) [398.06] [398.29] [.02]
399.12Grand goosegreasing we had entirely with an allnight eiderdown bed picnic to follow.
–399.12+Slang goose-grease: vaginal secretions
399.13By the cross of Cong, says she, rising up Saturday in the twilight from under me, Mick, Nick the Maggot or whatever your name is, you're the mose likable lad that's come my ways yet from the barony of Bohermore.
–399.13+VI.B.3.010g (b): 'Tara brooch Cross of Cong'
–399.13+Flood: Ireland, Its Saints and Scholars 111: 'the artists who worked in metal in Ireland... The most beautiful specimens of their art that have been preserved are the Tara Brooch, the Ardagh Chalice, and the Cross of Cong'
–399.13+Cross of Cong: relic in National Museum
–399.13+(Christ rose from the dead on Easter Sunday)
–399.13+Saturday (Cluster: Days)
–399.13+Mick, Nick and the Maggies (Motif: Mick/Nick) [219.19]
–399.13+Moses
–399.13+most
–399.13+Irish bóthar mór: main road, highway
399.14Mattheehew, Markeehew, Lukeehew, Johnheehewheehew!
–399.14+Motif: 4 evangelists (Mamalujo) (*X*) + the four's ass = Motif: four fifths [.14-.15]
399.15Haw!
–399.15+hee-haw (representing the bray of an ass; the four's ass) [.14]
399.16And still a light moves long the river. And stiller the mermen ply their keg.
–399.16+VI.B.47.088b (g): 'a light down the river. The mermen ply their cask'
399.17Its pith is full. The way is free. Their lot is cast.
–399.17+
399.18So, to john for a john, johnajeams, led it be!
–399.18+John-a-dreams: dreamy fellow, daydreamer
–399.18+Motif: Shem/Shaun (John, James; John is a cognate of Shaun (Shaun = Irish Seán = John); James is a cognate of Shem (Shem = Irish Séim/Séam = Irish Séamus/Seumas = James))
–399.18+let


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