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439.01and otherwise, messing around skirts and what their fickling in-
–439.01+VI.B.16.113i (r): 'arrived & otherwise'
–439.01+Key: John McCormack, His Own Life Story 124: 'musical-conductors, singers, arrived and otherwise, and musical agents'
–439.01+VI.B.16.118c (r): 'fickle'
–439.01+Irish Rivers, The Tolka 399/1: 'Glasnevin... is now a declining village, and, like its neighbour Finglass, mourns over the fickleness of fashion'
–439.01+German ficken: to have sex with
–439.01+Slang fucking (pejorative)
–439.01+tickling
439.02tentions look like, you make up your mind to that) trespassing
–439.02+VI.B.16.131e (r): 'make up yr mind'
–439.02+Irish Independent 7 May 1924, 5/4: '"Matchmaking" in the West': 'a man who attempted to barter his daughter of 15 for £800... A girl of her age could not make up her mind'
–439.02+VI.B.16.136c (r): 'trespass on yr —'
439.03on your danger zone in the dancer years. If ever I catch you at it,
–439.03+Ivor Novello: The Dancing Years
439.04mind, it's you that will cocottch it! I'll tackle you to feel if you
–439.04+French cocotte: whore
–439.04+Dialect cotch: catch
439.05have a few devils in you. Holy gun, I'll give it to you, hot, high
–439.05+(have a few drinks in you)
439.06and heavy before you can say sedro! Or may the maledictions
–439.06+Sedro: prayer in Maronite liturgy
–439.06+Italian sederò: I will sit down
439.07of Lousyfear fall like nettlerash on the white friar's father that
–439.07+Lucifer
–439.07+White Friars: Carmelites
439.08converted from moonshine the fostermother of the first nancy-
–439.08+moonshine whiskey
–439.08+VI.B.7.210f-g ( ): 'Bride - fostermother of †, hearth cult'
–439.08+Kennedy-Fraser & Macleod: Songs of the Hebrides II.x: 'a civilisation of the hearth, a social order symbolised in the beautiful figure of Bride, the foster-mother of Christ' (glossed in a footnote: 'Pronounced Breedya')
–439.08+fancy-free: not romantically attached
439.09free that ran off after the trumpadour that mangled Moore's melo-
–439.09+troubadour
–439.09+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies
439.10dies and so upturned the tubshead of the stardaft journalwriter
–439.10+phrase turned his head
–439.10+Swift: A Tale of a Tub
–439.10+Swift: A Journal to Stella (a posthumous collection of his letters to Swift's Stella; Italian stella: star)
–439.10+Colloquial daft: foolish, stupid; crazy, insane
439.11to inspire the prime finisher to fellhim the firtree out of which
–439.11+prime minister (Gladstone)
439.12Cooper Funnymore planed the flat of the beerbarrel on which
–439.12+James Fenimore Cooper: American novelist
–439.12+(cooper makes barrels)
439.13my grandydad's lustiest sat his seat of unwisdom with my tante's
–439.13+Joyce: Ulysses.15.3865: 'Remember Pasiphae for whose lust my grandoldgrossfather made the first confessionbox'
–439.13+prayer Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary: 'Seat of wisdom... Cause of our joy' (titles of the Virgin Mary)
–439.13+French tante: German Tante: aunt
439.14petted sister for the cause of his joy! Amene.
–439.14+Cluster: Amens (Paragraphs Ending with)
–439.14+Italian amene: pleasant
–439.14+Greek mênê: moon
439.15     Poof! There's puff for ye, begor, and planxty of it, all abound
–439.15+{{Synopsis: III.2.2A.G: [439.15-441.23]: more advice — his views on suitable books for girls}}
–439.15+[[Speaker: Jaun]]
–439.15+[438.19]
–439.15+planxty: Irish harp tune
–439.15+Colloquial phrase all round my hat: all nonsense
439.16me breadth! Glor galore and glory be! As broad as its lung and
–439.16+breath
–439.16+Irish glor go leor: great noise
–439.16+hymn Glory Be (also Anglo-Irish exclamation of astonishment or alarm)
–439.16+it's long
439.17as long as a line! The valiantine vaux of Venerable Val Vous-
–439.17+Motif: alliteration (v)
–439.17+Henry Cockton: Valentine Vox (novel about a ventriloquist)
–439.17+valiant
–439.17+French vaux: valleys (i.e. low notes)
–439.17+Vauxhall
–439.17+VI.B.42.006e (b): 'Val Vousden' [050.15]
–439.17+Vaentine (Val) Vousden: popular 19th century Dublin music hall entertainer
439.18dem. If my jaws must brass away like the due drops on my lay.
–439.18+song Let It Pass: 'Since our joys must pass away Like the dewdrops on the way, Wherefore should our sorrows stay? Let it pass!'
439.19And the topnoted delivery you'd expected be me invoice! Theo
–439.19+VI.B.34.074f (r): '*V* castrati'
–439.19+top note: the highest note in a singer's compass
–439.19+delivery (of a song, of a letter)
–439.19+VI.C.1.072e-f (r): 'postmaster invoice' === VI.B.16.144g ( ): 'postmortem invoice'
–439.19+Crawford: Thinking Black 135: (of an African husband having to pay the relatives of his wife after her death) 'all the details of that woman's wedded life must now be paid for. Of course, she cooked his food, so now for paying the total cookery bill. She fetched firewood, milled the meal and drew water, now's the time to pay up, ay, pay for every drink of water and every faggot of fire. Mark you, pay up for every item to every kinsman, all at once and once for all... And so on and on, the post-mortem invoice runs'
–439.19+in voice (tenor)
–439.19+The O'Donoghue: chieftain living under Lake of Killarney
439.20Dunnohoo's warning from Daddy O'Dowd. Whoo? What I'm
–439.20+Falconer: The O'Donoghue's Warning (a play given at Theatre Royal, Dublin)
–439.20+don't know who
–439.20+Boucicault: other plays: Daddy O'Dowd
439.21wondering to myselfwhose for there's a strong tendency, to put
–439.21+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...tendency, to...} | {Png: ...tendency to...}
439.22it mildly, by making me the medium. I feel spirts of itchery out-
–439.22+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...mildly, by...} | {Png: ...mildly by...}
–439.22+spirits
–439.22+I Ching: ancient Chinese book of divination
–439.22+lechery
439.23ching out from all over me and only for the sludgehummer's
–439.23+Browning: Mr. Sludge the Medium
–439.23+sledgehammer
–439.23+German Hummer: lobster
439.24force in my hand to hold them the darkens alone knows what'll
–439.24+Colloquial phrase the dickens alone knows what: the devil alone knows what, nobody knows what
439.25who'll be saying of next. However. Now, before my upperotic
–439.25+operatic
–439.25+erotic
439.26rogister, something nice. Now? Dear Sister, in perfect leave again I
–439.26+Slang roger: to have sex with
–439.26+love
439.27say take a brokerly advice and keep it to yourself that we, Jaun, first
–439.27+brotherly
–439.27+VI.B.16.093c (r): 'We, *V* first of name'
–439.27+Rothschild: Histoire de la Poste aux Lettres 100: (quoting a letters patent of Charles VIII) 'Nous, Charles, huitième de nom, roy de France' (French 'We, Charles, eighth of name, king of France')
439.28of our name here now make all receptacles of, free of price. Easy,
–439.28+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...of, free...} | {Png: ...of free...}
–439.28+Issy
439.29my dear, if they tingle you either say nothing or nod. No cheeka-
–439.29+VI.B.16.123h (r): 'either say yes or say no' (Motif: yes/no)
–439.29+Key: John McCormack, His Own Life Story 193: 'I should have a chance to warm up before going out to face the thousands there in front; the men and women who were to say 'yes' or 'no' to my maiden effort'
439.30cheek with chipperchapper, you and your last mashboy and the
–439.30+Slang chipper: lively
–439.30+Slang mash: sweetheart
–439.30+Mass, boy (hence, altar boy, who assists the priest during Mass)
439.31padre in the pulpbox enumerating you his nostrums. Be vacillant
–439.31+Italian padre: father, priest
–439.31+pulpit
–439.31+soap-box: a makeshift platform for making a speech
–439.31+nostrum: a quack remedy (popularly promoted from a soap-box)
–439.31+prayer Libera Nos: 'Per eundem Dominum nostrum' (Latin Deliver Us: 'Through the same our Lord'; part of the Mass)
439.32over those vigilant who would leave you to belave black on white.
–439.32+like
–439.32+believe black is white (Motif: dark/fair)
439.33Close in for psychical hijiniks as well but fight shy of mugpunters.
–439.33+physical
–439.33+high jinks
–439.33+hygienics
–439.33+Betting Slang mugpunter: uninformed backer of horses
439.34I'd burn the books that grieve you and light an allassundrian bom-
–439.34+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song I'd Mourn the Hopes: 'I'd mourn the hopes that leave me' [air: The Rose-Tree]
–439.34+phrase all and sundry
–439.34+library at Alexandria burned
–439.34+bonfire
439.35pyre that would suffragate Tome Plyfire or Zolfanerole. Perousse
–439.35+suffragette
–439.35+suffocate
–439.35+Father Finn: all works: Tom Playfair, or Making a Start
–439.35+Italian zolfanello: match
–439.35+Savonarola: bookburner who was himself burned
–439.35+peruse
439.36instate your Weekly Standerd, our verile organ that is ethelred by all
–439.36+instead
–439.36+Weekly Standard (newspaper)
–439.36+weakly
–439.36+Slang stand: erection
–439.36+Italian veri: true
–439.36+virile organ: penis
–439.36+Father Finn: all works: Ethelred Preston, or the Adventure of a Newcomer
–439.36+Ethelred the Unready: English king
–439.36+red
–439.36+read


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