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438.01when closehended together behind locked doors, kissing steadily,
–438.01+closeted
438.02(malbongusta, it's not the thing you know!) with the calfloving
–438.02+Esperanto malbongusta: in bad taste, coarse
–438.02+VI.B.6.098l (g): 'not the thing'
–438.02+VI.B.16.145a (r): 'the thing'
–438.02+Crawford: Thinking Black 161: 'here is the true tale of a mirage. Back came our faggot-searchers one by one, solemnly reporting a lake to be seen away on the Southern skyline. The oldest Biheans with us stoutly refused to believe the thing'
–438.02+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...know!) with...} | {Png: ...know) with...}
438.03selfseeker, under the influence of woman, inching up to you, dis-
–438.03+VI.B.5.063g (r): 'selfseeker'
–438.03+(alcohol)
438.04arranging your modesties and fumbling with his forte paws in your
–438.04+modesty: a kind of veil, usually made of lace, previously used to conceal a female bosom (often attached to the top of a corset or stays)
–438.04+VI.B.16.071a (r): 'fumble *V*'
–438.04+Italian forte: strong
–438.04+forty
438.05bodice after your billy doos twy as a first go off (take care, would
–438.05+VI.B.3.062c (r): 'billydoo' (the second 'o' replaces a cancelled 'ux')
–438.05+Slang billydoo: loveletter (from French billet doux)
–438.05+Dutch doos: box
–438.05+French deux: two
–438.05+Archaic twy: two
–438.05+(breasts)
–438.05+VI.B.14.134j (r): 'take care, wd ye *V*' (last 'e' uncertain)
438.06you stray and split on me!) and going on doing his idiot every
–438.06+Greek idiotes: peculiarity
–438.06+VI.B.16.013e (r): 'every time he got the chance'
–438.06+Connacht Tribune 29 Mar 1924, 3/4: 'Guard v. Publican': (part of a court examination) '— Did Mr. Hickey follow you up the second flight of stairs? — Yes. — Was he hanging on to your neck all the time? — Yes, every time he got the chance (laughter)'
438.07time you gave him his chance to get thick and play pigglywiggly,
–438.07+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...pigglywiggly...} | {Png: ...piggly-wiggly...}
438.08making much of you, bilgetalking like a ditherer, gougouzoug,
–438.08+VI.B.16.111k (r): 'talk bilge'
–438.08+Slang bilge: nonsense
–438.08+(Motif: stuttering)
–438.08+French cou: Breton gouzoug: neck
438.09about your glad neck and the round globe and the white milk and
–438.09+VI.B.11.091j (r): 'her glad neck'
–438.09+glad neck: a type of V-shaped open collar (in past times considered too revealing)
–438.09+German glatt: smooth
–438.09+(breasts, milk, nipples)
438.10the red raspberries (O horrifier!) and prying down furthermore to
–438.10+Motif: up/down [.10-.11]
438.11chance his lucky arm with his pregnant questions up to our past
–438.11+VI.B.16.122g (r): '*V* pregnant questions'
–438.11+Key: John McCormack, His Own Life Story 215: 'Mario Sammarco came to me. 'Giovanni,' he said, 'what you do in March?' It was a pregnant question, and I asked my baritone friend what he meant by it'
438.12lives. What has that caught to sing with him? The next fling
–438.12+got to do
–438.12+thing
438.13you'll be squitting on the Tubber Nakel, pouring pitchers to the
–438.13+squatting
–438.13+sitting
–438.13+(on the lavatory)
–438.13+Irish tobar: well; spring
–438.13+tabernacle
–438.13+naked
–438.13+(urinating)
–438.13+(praying) [.17]
–438.13+turning pictures to the wall [233.01] [587.14] [598.21]
–438.13+proverb The pitcher will go to the well once too often: a period of good luck will eventually end (inevitable reversal of fortune)
438.14well for old Gloatsdane's glorification and the postequities of
–438.14+Gladstone's
438.15the Black Watch, peeping private from the Bush and Rangers.
–438.15+Black Watch: forty-second Highland Regiment
–438.15+Slang bush: pubic hair (especially a woman's)
–438.15+Slang ranger: penis
438.16And our local busybody, talker-go-bragk. Worse again! Off of
–438.16+Anglo-Irish phrase Erin go bragh: Ireland to the end of time, Ireland forever (slogan and cheer; Motif: Erin go bragh)
–438.16+phrase out of the frying pan into the fire: from a bad situation into a worse one
438.17that praying fan on to them priars! It would be a whorable state
–438.17+whore
–438.17+horrible
438.18of affairs altogether for the redcolumnists of presswritten epics,
–438.18+communists
438.19Peter Paragraph and Paulus Puff, (I'm keepsoaking them to cover
–438.19+Peter Paragraph: name under which Samuel Foote satirised a Dublin bookseller
–438.19+Motif: Paul/Peter
–438.19+Mr. Puff in Sheridan's The Critic
–438.19+puff: extravagantly laudatory advertisement or review (Joyce: Ulysses.16.525: 'the Tweedy-Flower grand opera company... providing puffs in the local papers could be managed')
–438.19+keep asking
–438.19+keepsake
–438.19+cover: to report for a newspaper
438.20my concerts) to get ahold of for their balloons and shoot you
–438.20+
438.21private by surprise, considering the marriage slump that's on this
–438.21+VI.B.14.081i (g): 'marriage slump'
–438.21+(boredom with married life)
438.22oil age and pulexes three shillings a pint and wives at six and
–438.22+Latin pulex: flea
–438.22+phrase at sixes and sevens: disordered
438.23seven when domestic calamities belame par and newlaids bellow
–438.23+(eggs)
–438.23+below par
–438.23+Colloquial pa, ma: father, mother
438.24mar for the twenty twotoosent time thwealthy took thousands
–438.24+Portuguese mar: sea
–438.24+22,000th
–438.24+22,000
438.25in the slack march of civilisation were you, becoming guilty of
–438.25+
438.26unleckylike intoxication to have and to hold, to pig and to pay
–438.26+unladylike
–438.26+William Edward Hartpole Lecky: Irish historian, author of History of European Morals and of History of Rationalism
–438.26+The Book of Common Prayer: Matrimony: 'to have and to hold' (prayer)
438.27direct connection, qua intervener, with a prominent married member
–438.27+VI.B.16.106i (r): 'no direct connection'
–438.27+Key: John McCormack, His Own Life Story 47: 'I was chiefly concerned with anything which had no direct connection with Skerries'
–438.27+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...connection, qua intervener, with...} | {Png: ...connection qua intervener with...}
–438.27+Latin qua: in the capacity of
–438.27+intervener: one who interposes in a legal action to which he or she was not originally a partner
–438.27+VI.A.0641ap (g): 'intervener (fem corresp)'
–438.27+Variants: {FnF, Png: 'member' on .27} | {Vkg: 'mem-' on .27, 'ber' on .28}
438.28of the vicereeking squad and, in consequence of the therinunder
–438.28+viceregal: pertaining to a viceroy (e.g. the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland)
–438.28+vice squad
–438.28+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...and, in...} | {Png: ...and in...}
–438.28+Variants: {FnF, Png: ...therinunder...} | {Vkg: ...thereinunder...}
–438.28+Variants: {FnF, Png: 'therinunder' on .28} | {Vkg: 'therein-' on .28, 'under' on .29}
438.29subpenas, be flummoxed to the second degree by becoming a
–438.29+subpœnas
–438.29+penis
–438.29+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...subpenas, be...} | {Png: ...subpenas be...}
–438.29+VI.B.3.037d (r): 'Flummox & Co' [.30]
–438.29+VI.B.10.093g (r): 'flummuxed'
–438.29+Gilbert: Old England 75: 'We were completely flummuxed'
–438.29+Colloquial flummoxed: utterly at a loss, confused
–438.29+second degree [408.11] [522.27] [572.26]
438.30detestificated companykeeper on the dammymonde of Luca-
–438.30+detesting
–438.30+VI.B.16.039l (r): 'company keeping'
–438.30+Connacht Tribune 12 Apr 1924, 5/3: 'Doing the Devil's Work': (quoting the Bishop of Galway about the evil tendencies of modern Irish girls) 'it has fallen to my lot to come into Galway a few times in the winter after dark, and I was ashamed and horrified to find the amount of company keeping and the kind of company keeping that was going on publicly on these roads'
–438.30+company-keeping: revelling; wooing
–438.30+VI.B.5.049e (r): 'demi-monde dammymonde'
–438.30+demi-monde: women of doubtful reputation (halfway between 'good' and 'bad' society)
–438.30+Lucan
438.31lamplight. Anything but that, for the fear and love of gold! Once
–438.31+Dublin by Lamplight: a Dublin Magdalene laundry founded in the 19th century (Motif: Magdalene laundry)
–438.31+God
438.32and for all, I'll have no college swankies (you see, I am well
–438.32+
438.33voiced in love's arsenal and all its overtures from collion boys
–438.33+versed
–438.33+Slang arse: buttocks
–438.33+Archaic collions: testicles, rascals
438.34to colleen bawns so I have every reason to know that rogues'
–438.34+Anglo-Irish colleen bawn: fair-haired girl, pretty young woman, darling girl (Boucicault: The Colleen Bawn)
–438.34+VI.B.16.124g (r): 'reason to know'
438.35gallery of nightbirds and bitchfanciers, lucky duffs and light
–438.35+Slang nightbird: whore
–438.35+Motif: dark/fair
–438.35+Irish dubh: dark
438.36lindsays, haughty hamiltons and gay gordons, dosed, doctored
–438.36+song Battle of Otterbourne: 'He chose the Gordons and the Graems, With them the Lindsays, light and gay'
–438.36+Gay Gordons: Scottish dance


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