Phoenix + (he meets the cad in the park).
Turko the Terrible (first Christmas pantomime at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin; Ulysses.1.258)
let loose - to liberate, set free; to give way to
nursery - a plot or piece of ground in which young plants or trees are reared until fit for transplantation + of his misery.
begorra - by God!
Michael O'Clery - one of the Four Masters (of the Annals of the Four Masters)
of (Dublin Colloquial) - on (when referring to days of the week)
Matt Gregorry + Johnny MacDougal.
within the bawl of an ass (Anglo-Irish) - too near
stairrod - a meatal rod for holding a stair carpet in place in the angle between two steps; also (in pl.) a proverbial comparison for heavy rainfall ("During the morning the rain came down like stair-rods. During the match it turned to a swirling drizzle") + (notebook 1924): 'rain stair rods'.
catspaw - the paw of a cat; Naut. A slight and local breeze, which shows itself by rippling the surface of the sea.
swash - to dash or splash (water) about, to dash water upon; Of water or of an object in water: To dash with a splashing sound + cat's paw washing his ear (supposedly a sign of impending rain).
patronize - to assume sponsorship of; to treat condescendingly
straggler - one who wanders or roves without fixed direction + strangers
apparatus - equipments, mechanism, machinery; esp. The mechanical requisites employed in scientific experiments or investigations + "First, privy has a lock, evidently to keep out deadbeats, which is why on entering it in I/1 we have to ask for the key from the 'janitrix' Kate, who likes to extort a 'tip' for the favour. Second, it has a picture hung up inside, an 'outwashed engravure...'. It is in fact a battle scene from Waterloo, with Wellington, on horseback, in the foreground, and its presence will be enough to transform the privy, when we enter it, into museum, a 'museyroom'." (John Gordon: Finnegans Wake: a plot summary).
soup and fish (Slang) - a man’s evening dress, dinner suit, dress suit
borsalino - a man's wide-brimmed felt hat (PICTURE) + Joyce wore a Borsalino hat.
temple + teampall (t'oumpul) (gael) - church, esp. Protestant.
as quick as, or like, greased lightning - Used to denote extreme quickness of movement + greased line fishing - a method of salmon angling.
pipe up - to raise the voice, speak up in a piping voice + (cad with a pipe).
God's truth - the absolute truth
confusional - characterized by (mental) confusion + confessional - a desk, stall, cabinet, or box, in which the priest sits to hear confessions in a Roman Catholic church.
cup-tosser (Irish) - tea-leaf reader
prophecize - to utter prophecies
pose - to lay down, put forth; to hoard, store up (money, etc.)
pelf - money, wealth, riches; now depreciatory: 'filthy lucre' + Peter penny - Hist. An annual tax or tribute of a penny from each householder having land of a certain value, paid before the Reformation to the papal see at Rome; Applied to the voluntary contributions of Roman Catholic peoples to the papal treasury since 1860.
tocher - the marriage portion which a wife brings to her husband + Tochter (ger) - daughter.
Paraguay + Paradise + paraguas (Spanish) - umbrella.
alb - a white vestment worn by clergy and servers in some Christian Churches + Alb (ger) - elf.
by the yard - at great length, without end
Mathew, Father Theobald (1790-1856) - Irish temperance advocate. He always doubles with Matt Gregory (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake).
British weather lore proverb, which says that if it rains on Saint Swithun's day, 15 July, it will rain for 40 days.
Anluan (onlun) (gael) - Great-hero; masc. personal name + Ath Luain (alun) (gael) - Luan's ("hero") Ford; central town on Shannon; anglic. Athlone + alone + Browne/Nolan.
nuisance - injury, annoyance; In phr. 'to commit a nuisance'.
soldat - a soldier
misbeliever - one who holds a false or unorthodox belief; a heretic or infidel
N.D. - no date + Notre Dame (fr) - Our Lady, Blessed Virgin Mary.
Lenclos, Ninon de (1615-1705) - from youth to elder age, a French lurer of men + écluse (fr) - milldam, a dam built on a stream to raise the water-level for turning a mill-wheel.
heehaw - a conventional representation of the bray of a jackass; a loud unrefined laugh
Flut (ger) - flood + (more rain).
prodder - one who or that which prods + brother.
cat and dog - referring to the proverbial enmity between the two animals: attrib. Full of strife; inharmonious; quarrelsome + to rain cats and dogs - to rain very heavily + James Joyce: A Portrait I: 'dog-in-the-blanket' (roly-poly pudding).
foei! (Dutch) - for shame!
anglais (fr) - English + angry as always.
lit. du hast Recht (ger) - you are right
Mumha[n] (mun) (gael) - S. province; anglic. Munster.
Connachta (kunukhte) (gael) - Progeny of Conn ("intelligence"); W. province; anglic. Connacht, Connaught.
octo (l) - eight + let yous all be octo.
bike - to ride a bicycle + I'll take.
bil - obs. form of bill + bile (bili) (gael) - sacred tree + bil (Danish) - auto, car + bil (Dutch) - buttock.
whang - to propel or hit with force, as of a ball; to attack forcefully + wang (Dutch) - cheek + we'll walk.
wabble = wobble + Dublin.
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) - English writer of novels + 'You take the high road and I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland before you, But me and my true love will never meet again On the bonny bonny banks of Loch Lomond' (song).
Burns, Robert (1759 – 1796) - Scottish poet and a lyricist
Quatsch (ger) - nonsense! rubbish! + {Speaker: Matthew}
fluke - to succeed or fail by chance + talking
LOMOND, LOCH - Lake, South central Scotland; largest lake in Great Britain. "By the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond" is where me and my true love will never meet again.
discipline - to inflict penitential discipline upon
yur = your (obs.)
second sight - a supposed power by which occurrences in the future or things at a distance are perceived as though they were actually present + (notebook 1924): 'J.J. second sight' → Schuré: Les Grandes Légendes de France 147: 'Second sight was rare'.
noo - now
recant - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure + Joyce's note: 'recant' → Martin: Saint Colomban 154: (of erroneous beliefs about the two natures in Christ) 'Theodoret, the learned byshop of Cyr, and Ibas, the bishop of Edesse... had recanted of their own will'.
prophetize - to prophesy, predict + professed.
first sight - that which is seen for the first time
Paidin O'Flaithbheartaigh (pad'in o'flaherti) (gael) - Paddy descendant of Flaithbheartach ("bright-ruler") + (notebook 1924): 'swore everything he swore was untrue' → Connacht Tribune 24 May 1924, 5/2: 'Outrageous Act. Stationmaster's House Fired Into. Youth of 16 and His Oath': 'it was a disgraceful thing that a youth of sixteen should take an oath and then swear that everything that he had sworn was untrue'.
ay - an affirmative answer or vote
nay - no + SDV: — Will you swear [to it [& recant] to your 2nd sight now that all you swore to then was false? / — I swear to it now that it was then.
aye = ay + I + Ay, ay! (motif).
affirmily - firmly, strongly + (notebook 1924): 'I affirm *V*'.
really truly - chiefly N. Amer. Children's speech: Authentic, genuine.
ballyhoo - a barker's touting speech; hence, blarney, bombastic nonsense + Baile Atha Ubhla (bolye ahule) (gael) - Appletree-Ford Town, Co. Cork; anglic. Ballyhooly ("ballyhooly/hooly: riotous celebration") + hooley pooley (Anglo-Irish) - hubbub, great din (from Irish: húille búille).
hagio- - holy, saintly + oleaginous - containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
poise - to be balanced or held in equilibrium; to balance itself in the air, to hover. Also, to hover or be poised in readiness for (something).
rubricated - marked or signalized by red letters, written or printed in red + lubricated + Red Hand of Ulster.
annual - R.C. Ch. A mass said either daily for a year after, or yearly on the anniversary of, a person's death; a book of which successive numbers are published once a year, usually at the same date + The Annals of Ulster - 15th century collection of Irish annals + Joyce's note: 'annuals (flowers)' [anniversary motif].
guid - Sc. form of good + {Speaker: Matthew}
R.C. - Roman Catholic
talling (Ulster Pronunciation) - telling
labrose - having (large) lips + (notebook 1924): 'labrose' → Crawford: Thinking Black 71: 'take first drink, the gourd-cup receiving a loud labrose smack as first gulp'.
cabbage - paper money (slang.) + (notebook 1924): 'bright cabbage (Lsd)'.