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511.01    — I think you're widdershins there about the right reverence.
–511.01+VI.B.14.087b (g): '*V* I think you're wrong there'
–511.01+VI.B.33.016d (r): 'withershins'
–511.01+The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Supplemental Nights, vol. VII, 126n: The Tale of the Warlock and the Young Cook of Baghdad: (part of a formula intended to procure illicit intercourse) 'tie the image in five places with coir left-hand-twisted (i.e. widdershins or 'against the sun')'
–511.01+Dialect widdershins: contrary to the sun's direction, considered unlucky (Obsolete Dialect in the wrong way; Motif: right/wrong)
–511.01+(priest) [510.34]
–511.01+Slang reverence: excrement
511.02Magraw for the Northwhiggern cupteam was wedding beastman,
–511.02+Magrath
–511.02+Northern Whig: Belfast newspaper
–511.02+the Norwegian captain [510.32] [510.34-.35]
–511.02+best man
–511.02+batsman
511.03papers before us carry. You saw him hurriedly, or did you if
–511.03+
511.04thatseme's not irrelevant? With Slater's hammer perhaps? Or he
–511.04+that seems
–511.04+Oscar Slater wrongly convicted of murder with hammer and imprisoned for nineteen years
511.05was in serge?
–511.05+Lithuanian sergas: sick
–511.05+search
511.06    — I horridly did. On the stroke of the dozen. I'm sure I'm
–511.06+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–511.06+VI.B.17.014h (b): 'it horribly did'
–511.06+O'Brien: The Parnell of Real Life 167: 'Whether Spencer's sage advice had told upon the Liberal leader... that his threat addressed to a proud man and a proud nation, might defeat its purpose — as it horribly did — we shall not now, perhaps, ever know'
–511.06+hardly
–511.06+(twelve o'clock) [035.33] [111.08] [353.15] [353.30]
511.07wrong but I heard the irreverend Mr Magraw, in search of a
–511.07+irreverend: not worthy of veneration
–511.07+irreverent
–511.07+song Master McGrath (about a famous Irish greyhound, the first to win the Waterloo cup, the most prestigious hare coursing event, on three occasions (1868, 1869, 1871); Magrath)
511.08stammer, kuckkuck kicking the bedding out of the old sexton,
–511.08+German Stammvater: progenitor, ancestor
–511.08+(Motif: stuttering)
–511.08+German Kuckuck: cuckoo
511.09red-Fox Good-man around the sacristy, till they were bullbeadle
–511.09+Fox Goodman
511.10black and bufeteer blue, while I and Flood and the other men,
–511.10+blue and buff are the colours of the Duke of Beaufort's Hunt, one of the oldest and largest fox-hunting grounds and kennels in England (also the colours of the Whig party)
–511.10+beefeater: a popular name for a member of the Yeomen of the Guard (bodyguards of the British monarch) or of the Yeomen Warders (ceremonial guards of the Tower of London)
–511.10+German Teer: tar
–511.10+Henry Flood: Irish politician
–511.10+J.M. Flood (Irish historian): The Life of Chevalier Charles Wogan, an Irish Soldier of Fortune
511.11jazzlike brollies and sesuos, was gickling his missus to gackles in
–511.11+just like
–511.11+Lithuanian brolis: brother
–511.11+Lithuanian sesuo: sister
–511.11+tickling
–511.11+VI.B.14.223e (g): '*V* & Mrs Magrath' (Magrath)
–511.11+cackles (laughter)
511.12the hall, the divileen, (she's a lamp in her throth) with her
–511.12+VI.B.8.227f (g): 'divileen (part of Liffey)'
–511.12+Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 225n: (quoting P.W. Joyce) 'Duibhlinn was originally the name of that part of the Liffey on which the city now stands'
–511.12+Anglo-Irish divil: devil (reflecting pronunciation)
–511.12+Anglo-Irish -een (diminutive)
–511.12+lump in her throat
–511.12+troth
511.13cygncygn leckle and her twelve pound lach.
–511.13+Latin cygnus: swan
–511.13+German lächeln: to smile
–511.13+J.M. Barrie: The Twelve Pound Look
–511.13+Dutch lach: laugh, smile
511.14    — A loyal wifish woman cacchinic wheepingcaugh! While
–511.14+Royal Irish Roman Catholic whoopingcough
–511.14+Italian Colloquial cacchio: a euphemism for cazzo (Italian Slang cazzo: penis)
–511.14+cachinnate: laugh aloud
511.15she laylylaw was all their rage. But you did establish personal
–511.15+song Finnegan's Wake: 'Shillelagh law was all the rage'
511.16contact? In epexegesis or on a point of order?
–511.16+epexegesis: addition of words in further explanation
511.17    — That perkumiary pond is beyawnd my pinnigay pre-
–511.17+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–511.17+Lithuanian perkunas: thunder, thunderclap
–511.17+pecuniary: related to money
–511.17+peculiar point
–511.17+beyond
–511.17+Yawn
–511.17+Lithuanian pinigas: money, coin
–511.17+pretensions
511.18tonsions. I am resting on a pigs of cheesus but I've a big
–511.18+song I Am Resting in the Arms of Jesus
–511.18+rest, pig, cheese [025.12]
–511.18+piece of cheese
511.19suggestion it was about the pint of porter.
–511.19+
511.20    — You are a suckersome! But this all, as airs said to oska,
–511.20+Constable Sackerson
–511.20+(alcohol drinker)
–511.20+Lithuanian avis, oska: sheep, goat (Motif: goat/sheep)
511.21was only that childbearer might blogas well sidesplit? Where
–511.21+Lithuanian blogas: bad
–511.21+bloody
–511.21+(laugh)
–511.21+[186.32]
–511.21+Danish Hvorledes har De det i dag, min sorte herre?: How are you today, my dark sir? (Motif: How are you today, my dark/fair sir?)
511.22letties hereditate a dark mien swart hairy?
–511.22+Archaic swart: dark
511.23    — Only. 'Twas womans' too woman with mans' throw man.
–511.23+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–511.23+song Finnegan's Wake: ''Twas woman to woman and man to man' (originally, Poole: song Tim Finigan's Wake: ''Twas woman to woman and man to man;')
–511.23+Motif: 2&3 (two women, three men)
511.24    — Bully burley yet hardly hurley. The saloon bulkhead, did
–511.24+hurley-burley
511.25you say, or the tweendecks?
–511.25+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation say: sea
–511.25+'tween-decks: space between decks of a ship
511.26    — Between drinks, I deeply painfully repeat it.
–511.26+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–511.26+regret
511.27    — Was she wearing shubladey's tiroirs in humour of her
–511.27+shopladies' drawers
–511.27+German Schublade: drawer (of furniture)
–511.27+French tiroir: drawer (of furniture)
–511.27+in honour of
–511.27+to humour her husband
511.28hubbishobbis, Massa's star stellar?
–511.28+hobbies
–511.28+Massa: town, Tuscany
–511.28+Lettish mahsa: sister
511.29    — Mrs Tan-Taylour? Just a floating panel, secretairslid-
–511.29+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–511.29+tantaliser
–511.29+secretaire: piece of furniture with drawers, for papers etc.
–511.29+secretaries
–511.29+sliding drawers
511.30ingdraws, a budge of klees on her schalter, a siderbrass sehdass
–511.30+E.A. Wallis Budge: English translator and editor of Budge: The Book of the Dead
–511.30+bunch of keys
–511.30+German Klee: clover
–511.30+Paul Klee: Swiss painter
–511.30+German Schalter: ticket window; switch
–511.30+German Schulter: shoulder
–511.30+Lithuanian sidabras: silver
–511.30+German seh' dass: see that
–511.30+Lithuanian ziedas: ring
511.31on her anulas findring and forty crocelips in her curlingthongues.
–511.31+Portuguese anular: the ring finger
–511.31+Latin anulus: ring
–511.31+Anglo-Irish findrinny: white-bronze, silver-bronze (used to make rings; from Irish fionndruine)
–511.31+Croce (expounded Vico)
–511.31+Italian croce: a cross; an affliction
–511.31+cowslips
–511.31+curlingtongs
–511.31+tongues
511.32    — So this was the dope that woolied the cad that kinked the
–511.32+nursery rhyme The House That Jack Built: 'the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that gnawed the rope that tied the sack that held the malt that lay in the house that Jack built'
–511.32+cad (the cad with the pipe)
511.33ruck that noised the rape that tried the sap that hugged the mort?
–511.33+Gipsy sap: snake, serpent (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 57)
–511.33+Slang mort: woman; sexually promiscuous woman
–511.33+Jacke Jugeler: anonymous 16th century interlude
511.34    — That legged in the hoax that joke bilked.
–511.34+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
511.35    — The jest of junk the jungular?
–511.35+jugular
511.36    — Jacked up in a jock the wrapper.
–511.36+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–511.36+song As I Went Up the Brandy Hill: 'Up Jock'
–511.36+Jack the Ripper


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