(boys and girls)
dead as a doornail - completely or certainly dead
par (fr) - by
bucca - hobgoblin, bugbear, scarecrow + bucca (l) - cheek, mouth + Bacchus (feasting) + per Bacco! (it) - (exclamation).
imbibe - to 'drink in', absorb, or assimilate (knowledge, ideas, etc.); to take into one's mind or moral system
reassurance - renewed or repeated assurance; renewed or restored confidence
lac = lack (obs.) + lac (l) - milk.
godliness - the quality of being godly; righteousness, piety
fledge - a feather- or down-like covering + flesh
blood + brood (Dutch) - bread, loaf.
culm - the highest point, summit, culminating point
huh - a natural utterance, expressing some suppressed feeling
traidor (Portuguese) - traitor
khorosho (Russian) - good + arro (Cork Pronunciation) - are you + Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Oh! Arranmore, Lov'd Arranmore [air: Killdroughalt Fair].
arrah (Irish) - but, now, really + monarch of Ireland.
ever since - throughout all the time after a specified date
rudden - to become red + written.
fuse - diffuse (a.) + phosphorescence + (lightning flash).
Fleischmarkt (ger) - meat market + fleshmarket (Slang) - brothel.
royally - in a monarchical manner, monarchically + Persse O'Reilly of the Royal Irish Artillery + FSTD: Errorsure he's the mannork of Arrahland oversense he horrhorrd his name in thuthunder. Rrrwwwkkkrrr! of the rollorrishrattillary. And seen it rudden up in fusefiressence on the fashmurket. P.R.C.R.L.L. Royloy.
lewd (dream) + lightning conductor.
bolter - one that bolts or runs
trucail (trukil) (gael) - cart, sidecar + electrical + FSTD: The lewdmingbluebolteredallucktruckalltraumconductor!
unnamed - not mentioned or specified by name; not provided with a name, nameless
the Green Island - Ireland
thirteen + FSTD: But we're molting superstituettes out of his false thorotin guts.
trademark - a mark (secured by legal registration or, in some countries, established by use) used by a manufacturer or trader to distinguish his goods from similar wares of other firms + King Mark of Cornwall.
Easterling - Viking (used of invaders of Ireland).
cunnus (l) - cunt + Sitric Silkenbeard (Sitreac O'Connachtaigh) led the Danes to an ignominious defeat at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 + Roderick O'Connor - last high king of Ireland, displaced by Anglo-Norman invaders, died in 1198 at the age of ninety.
rix = rush (n.) - plant + rex - a king.
adverse - to be opposed or adverse to, to oppose + adverso ordine (l) - in reversed order.
ord - a point, esp. of a weapon; hence, a pointed weapon, a spear + or + ord (Danish) - word.
Magd (ger) - maid + Morgen (ger) = morgen (Dutch) - tomorrow, morning + makt (Norwegian) - power + morken (Norwegian) - decayed.
København (Danish) - Copenhagen + Kavanaugh, Art MacMurrough - 14th century king of Leinster. His agmomen, Kavanaugh, replaced his original surname. He fought off the forces of Richard II.
conversion - change in character, nature, form, or function; kick after try in rugby
coucou (fr) - cuckoo + FSTD: Coucous! Find his causcaus!
Methuselah - lived 969 years, begot Lamech + Ulysses.12.1581: 'Methusalem' + motus metu solo (l) - moved by fear only.
Hickory Dickory Dock (nursery rhyme)
business as usual - things proceeding normally in spite of disturbing circumstances + FSTD: From Motometusolum though Bulley and Cowlie and pass in your checkmates down to baseness baseness's usualls usuall,
alight - lighted, kindled, in a flame; on fire. Also fig. + all right + alive + (being burned at stake) + FSTD: There's a light there still, by Mike.
Lucifer - the rebel archangel whose fall from heaven was supposed to be referred to in Isa. xiv. 12; Satan, the Devil.
tell us + FSTD: Loose afore! Bung! Bring out your deed! Bang! Till is the right time.
PARTICK - Manufacturing town (with a large Irish population) near Glasgow, Scotland. "Partick Thistle" is its football (soccer) team.
agen = again + agen (Irish Pronunciation) - against.
Saint Michan's Church, Dublin + Saint Mirren - Scottish football team from Paisley.
Crystal Palace - building of the Great Exhibition of 1851, when removed and erected on Sydenham Hill, near London, as a permanent place of entertainment; it was destroyed by fire in 1936 + Crystal Palace - English football team.
agus (ogus) (gael) - and
WALSALL - Industrial town, North-West of Birmingham, England; home of Walsall football team.
putsch - a revolutionary attempt
timor (l) - fear + timor mortis conturbat me (l) - the fear of death disquiets me.
disturb + FSTD: Tiemore moretis tisturb badday!
body + "Peccantem me quotidie, et non poenitentem, timor mortis conturbat me. Quia in inferno nulla est redemptio, miserere mei, Deus, et salva me". The phrase comes from a responsory of the Catholic Office of the Dead, in the third Nocturn of Matins: "Sinning daily, and not repenting, the fear of death disturbs me. Because there is no redemption in hell, have mercy on me, O God, and save me."
plague (transmitted by rats) + play + FSTD: The playgue will be soon over, rats!
listen + let us in + let's sin + laat zien (Dutch) - show me.
getont (ger) - sounded, echoed + getoond (Dutch) - shown + get out.
dinned - assailed or disturbed with din + don't understand.
sass - to speak impertinently + said
thirty two eleven + thurteen (Irish Pronunciation) - thirteen + FSTD: We dinned unnerstunned why you sad sassad about thirty thurteen to eleven aloafen, sor, kindly repeat!
sor - Ir. pronunc. of sir
let alone - to abstain from doing (an action)
language + FSTD: Or ledn us alones of your lungorge.
personifier - a speaker or writer who uses personification; one who personates or acts the part of another + parson.
propound - a proposition + profound.
edelweiss - an Alpine plant, remarkable for its white flower, growing in rocky places, often scarcely accessible, on the Swiss mountains
wort - a plant, herb, or vegetable, used for food or medicine + words + eitel Wort (ger) - vain word + FSTD: [parsonifier [propounderant propounde] of idol our edelweissed idol worts!]
shaw - a thicket, a small wood, copse or grove + Shaun
shea - a sapotaceous tree of tropical Africa, Bassia Parkii + Shem
learning Ibsen
hurry up, grandfather + FSTD: Shaw and Shea are lorning obsen so harry hurgle up, and farder, and gurgle me gurk.
gurgle - to make a noise as of liquid issuing from a bottle, bubbling, or the like; to utter intermittent guttural sounds
gurk - a belch + Gurke (ger) - pickle, cucumber.
impose - to impose itself forcibly, authoritatively, or strikingly; to exert an influence on
Freischutz (ger) - free-archer, marksman
os (Danish) - us
speaks + spuck (ger) - spit + FSTD: You can't impose on frayshouters like os. Every tub here spucks his own fat.
coercion - using force to cause something + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 58: Bogie Balfour (song): 'Yet though he always seems at hand your actions to coerce'.
everyhow - in every way
smatter - to have a slight or superficial knowledge or practice of; to dabble, to be a smatterer (in or at something) + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 53: 'Smithermock' (song) + Mother Machree (song) + FSTD: [Hang coersion everyhow! And smothermock Gramm's laws!]
gramm - what is written; a phrase + Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm - 19th century German brothers, best known for collections of fairy tales. Jacob Grimm formulated "Grimm's Law," regarding sound shifts of mute consonants from pre-Germanic to historical Teutonic tongues.
Gaedhealg (gelg) (gael) - Irish (language) + 'tuigeaan tú Gaedhealg?' (Irish) - do you understand Irish? + Gaelic League + FSTD: But we're a drippindhrue gaeleague all at ones.
void + John 1:1: 'In the beginning was the Word'.
muddle - a muddled condition; confusion, disorder; mental confusion, bewilderment + middle
therin after - after, before, below in that document, statute, etc.
unbias - to free from bias (predilection, prejudice) + unbewiesen (ger) - unproved + Unbewusst (ger) - unconscious.
vulsus (l) = volsus (l) - smooth, hairless; spasmodic, suffering from convulsions + FSTD: In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is the sounddance and thereinofter comes you're in the unbewised again [vond vulsyvolsy.]
brogue - a strongly-marked dialectal pronunciation or accent + de taler danskernes sprog, men vi (Danish) - you speak the Danes' language, but we.
obstruct - abstract + FSTD: You talker dunsker's brogue men we our souls speech obstruct hostery.
hostery = hostry - hostelry (a house where lodging and entertainment are provided; an inn, a hostel) + history
court + Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 416 (XXI.2): (criticising early theories of the origin and development of speech and language) 'they all tacitly assume that up to the creation of language man had remained mute or silent.
we are
unartful - free from artifice or cunning
outer - external + other.
nocentia (l) - guilt, transgression + utter nonsense + FSTD: Silence in chought! Speech! [Wear an artful of outer nocence!]
pawpaw - the tree Carica papaya, a native of South America, commonly cultivated throughout the tropics + Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 414 (XXI.2): 'Another theory is the interjectional, nicknamed the pooh-pooh theory: language is derived from instinctive ejaculations called forth by pain or other intense sensations or feelings'.
Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 413 (XXI.2): 'One theory is that primitive words were imitative of sounds: man copied the barking of dogs... this theory, nicknamed the bow-wow theory.
noe broed (Norwegian) - some bread
ape - to imitate, mimic + up
Philadelphia + delphos (gr) - brother + FSTD: Momerry twelfths noebroed! That was a good one, ha! So it will be quite a material what May farther be unveloped for you, old Mighty, when it's aped to foul a delfian in the Mahnung, ha ha!
Mahnung (ger) - warning + Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (song).
Paddywhack (Slang) - Irishman + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 18: 'Paddy Blake's Echo' (song).