elbow + Elbe - one of the major rivers of Central Europe.
cute - attractive, pretty, charming
saise = seize (v.) + Saisi - river in Tanzania.
quirk - a clever or witty turn or conceit, a verbal trick + quick
bicker - a drinking cup of any material; a skirmish, fight + 'Little Nancy Etticoat' (nursery rhyme): 'The longer she stands the shorter she grows' (answer: a lighted candle).
slick - slippery; marked by skill in deception + (notebook 1924): '*A* the longer she lives the shorter she grows' ('longer she lives' replaces a cancelled 'more she had').
tagus - a commander, leader, ruler, chief + Tagus - longest river on the Iberian Peninsula + take us
werra = very + Werra (Anglo-Irish) - Blessed Virgin Mary (interjection; from Irish, a Mhuire: Mary) + Werra - river in central Germany.
earth + Ourthe - river in the Ardennes, Belgium.
lamb + Lambay Island, north-east of Dublin
battering ram - an ancient military engine employed for battering down walls, consisting of a beam of wood, with a mass of iron at one end, sometimes in the form of a ram's head.
apt - having a habitual tendency or predisposition (to do something) + Epte - river in Normandy, France.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long (song) + Liddel Water - river running through southern Scotland and northern England.
length + Linth - Swiss river + FDV: Go away! No more? The height of your knee.
hough - tendons at the back of the knee, the adjacent back part of the thigh
ploughboy - a boy who leads the team of oxen or horses that draw a plough; hence, a boy of the rustic labouring class + FDV: She wore a pair of plowman's broadbottom nailstudded boots,
stud - to insert or place (a number of things) at intervals over a surface
clog - a shoe with a thick wooden sole protected by a rim of metal + Joyce's note: '*A* clogs'.
garden shoes (a garden in themselves) [notebook 1922-23] → Irish Times 18 Nov 1922, 9/4: 'Elbow Grease': 'Taking over the boot-cleaning department was my happiest idea. Surrounded by a few pairs of my own, a couple of the wife's, my son's garden shoes (so-called because they are a garden in themselves)'
sugarloaf hat - a conical hat, pointed, rounded or flat at the top, worn during the Tudor and Stuart periods and after the French Revolution + SUGARLOAF - 2 mountains South of Bray, County Wicklow.
gaudy - excessively or glaringly showy, tastelessly gay or fine + quivery - that shakes, trembling + Guadalquivir - second longest river in Spain.
gorse - the prickly shrub Ulex europæus
ornament + Arno - river in the Tuscany region of Italy.
streamer - a long flowing ribbon, feather, etc. attached to some article of dress
guilder - a gold coin formerly current in the Netherlands and parts of Germany + Guil - river in southeastern France + FDV: a sugarloaf hat with a sunrise peak of & a band of gorse & with a golden pin through it,
eyeglasses - The name is by usage restricted to a pair of lenses to be held in the hand or kept in position by a spring on the nose; those which are secured by pieces of metal placed over the ears being called spectacles + Owlglass - The name of a German jester of mediæval times, the hero of an old German jest-book translated into English 1560; a prototype of roguish fools; hence, A jester, buffoon.
boggle - to startle with amazement or fear + FDV: owlglasses screening screened her eyes,
fishnet - Used attrib. of an open-meshed fabric or garment + Netze (ger) - nets + Noteć (German: Netze) - river in central Poland.
wrinkling - a series or collection of wrinkles, a puckered surface
Hydaspes or Jehlum - river in India and Pakistan
potatoring - a ring or hoop of ceramic or metalware used as a stand for a bowl + (notebook 1923): 'potato ring'.
boucle = buckle - to fasten with a buckle
Laub (ger) - leaves + lobes + FDV: a pair of potato rings in her buckled the loose ends of her ears:
nude - naked, bare; As a colour, esp. of stockings: flesh coloured
cuba - a dark red color
salmon - of the colour of the flesh of salmon, a kind of orange-pink + Salmo - genus of salmon + FDV: nude cuba stockings were salmon spot speckled:
sport - to show off, to wear with satisfaction
calico - variegated, piebald; cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern + Gállego - river in Spain.
shimmy - not fading or changing color readily; chemise (Slang)
vapour + vypar (Czech ) - haze, fume + Vaipar - river in India.
tinto - a tint (a colour, usu. slight or delicate) + Río Tinto ("red river" in English) - river in southwestern Spain + Tinto - red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port + (notebook 1924): 'haze grey'.
fast - Of a colour: that will not quickly fade or wash out, permanent
washing - 'washing of clothes', esp. as one of the regular requirements of a person or household + (notebook 1924): '*A* run in the wash'.
stays - corset
rival - associate, companion + 'rival' derives from Latin rivalis: one living on the opposite bank of a stream from another, one using the same stream as another.
line - to cover the outside of; to delineate, sketch
blood orange - a variety of orange having the pulp streaked with red
knickerbockers [.16] + FDV: and her bloodorange knickers fancy fastened with showed natural nigger bockers:
fancy - 'fine, ornamental', in opposition to 'plain' + fancy-free (phrase) - not in love (William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream II.1.164).
black stripe - an inferior kind of port wine
tan - brown coloured + Black and Tans - English recruits in 1920-1 serving in Royal Irish Constabulary,
joseph - a long cloak, worn chiefly by women in the eighteenth century when riding, and on other occasions; it was buttoned all the way down the front and had a small cape + Joseph - river in the United States.
sequin - adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing + In Gallo-Roman religion, Sequana was the goddess of the river Seine + Seine - river in France.
teddy bear - a stuffed figure of a bear, made of rough plush, used as a toy or as a kind of mascot; a furry fabric resembling plush
rush - a plant of the order Juncaceæ, having straight naked stems or stalks (properly leaves) and growing in marshy ground
epaulette - an ornament worn on the shoulder as part of a military, naval, or civil uniform
let down + Lea - river in England + Leda and the Swan
ruff - a collar of projecting or distinctively coloured feathers or hair round the neck of various birds and animals + FDV: her blackstriped tan joseph was teddybearlined with a swansdown border:
brace - two of a kind + FDV: a couple of gaspers stuck in her hayrope garters;
gasper - cigarette, esp. a cheap or inferior one
hayrope - a rope twisted of hay + Europe
civvy - civilian
corduroy - a kind of coarse, thick-ribbed cotton stuff, worn chiefly by labourers or persons engaged in rough work + Codroy - river in Canada.
alphabet + Heu (ger) - hay + Bett (ger) - bed + Alpheus is the longest river in the Peloponnese, Greece.
bar - a rigid piece of metal or wood, usually used as a fastening; pound [sterling] (Slang) + FDV: her civvy coat was belted with zoned by a twobar belting.
fourpenny bit - a silver coin of the value of four pence + a bit - a sum of money, money
side pocket - a pocket in the side portion of a garment (esp. a coat or jacket)
clothes peg - a forked wooden peg used to fasten linen on a clothes-line
astride - bestriding, spanning
joki (Finnish) - river
kep = keep + FDV: She had a tight clothespeg astride of her nose so as she & something in her mouth as well
Smthg in her mouth (Joyce's note) + Somme - river in Picardy, northern France.
quaint - strange in an interesting or pleasing way, odd or even incongruous in character or appearance, attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
fiume (it) - river
reke = reek + reka (Serbian) - river.
fleuve (fr) - river
gawan (Japanese) - river + gown
snuff - a preparation of powdered tobacco for inhaling through the nostrils + drab - a kind of cloth; of a dull light-brown or yellowish-brown.
siubhlóir (Irish) = shooler (Anglo-Irish) - vagrant, wanderer, beggar + Sioule - river in central France.
Irish mile - 2240 yards + FDV: & the tail of her old brown snuffbrown skirt trailed 50 miles behind her on the road.
along the road + hod (Serbian) - walk + Rhone or Rhodanus - one of the major rivers of Europe, originating in Switzerland and running through France.
hellsbells - exp. of impatience or irritation, anger or annoyance + FDV: O hellsbells, what I'm sorry I missed her. Everyone who saw her said the dear sweet little lady seemed a bit queer. She must have looked a funny poor dear. Funny poor dear she must have looked. Dickens a funnier ever you saw. There was a gang of surfacemen [boomslanging & plugchewing [, lying & leasing,]] on Lazy Wall & as soon as they seen these seen who was in it says one to the other: Between you & me & the wall we are on beneath us as round as a hoop Alp has doped.
gumption - common sense, mother wit, shrewdness. Also, initiative, enterprise, 'drive' + Gumti - tributary of the Ganges River + sweetgum - any of several Oriental and American trees, of the genus Liquidambar.
whelk - a pustule, pimple; a marine gastropod mollusc of the genus Buccinum, having a turbinate shell + welk (Dutch) - which + which of her mouths? - referring to Anna Livia's delta, but also bearing overtones of sexual perversion (Hart, Clive / Structure and motif in Finnegans wake).
naze - a promontory or headland + nose
alight - lighted, kindled, illuminated; on fire + all right
douce - sweet, pleasant + (notebook 1924): 'Donce' → Freeman's Journal 25 Feb 1924, 6/3: 'Water Supply. How Dublin and District Are Provided For': 'The basin of the river Vartry occupies the central portion of the north-east quarter of Co. Wicklow, and extends from the Sugarloaf and the Donce mountains in a south-easterly direction to the town of Wicklow'.
Delia (l) - Diana, from her birth on the island of Delos + (notebook 1922-23): 'the dear little lady seemed funny' → Daily Mail 10 Jan 1923, 6/4: 'Barricaded House Inquest': 'coroner read... a letter... The dear little lady... committed suicide... when I came to the room she seemed funny and said she was trying to shoot herself' (in fact, he murdered her).
poddle - to walk with short, unsteady, or uncertain steps, like those of a child + puddle - a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid + Poddle - one of the best known of the more than a hundred watercourses of Dublin.
fol = fool; full + fall
say (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - sea
fenny - boggy, swampy; muddy, dirty + (notebook 1922-23): 'funny poor dear' → Daily Mail 30 Nov 1922, 8/5: 'Long-Skirt Menace by Dorothy Richardson': 'Those funny poor dears, the ankle-gazers, who shriek out against current immodesties... will remain themselves whatever the fashion'.
hex - jinx, witch + FDV: She must have looked a funny poor dear. Funny poor dear she must have looked.
char - to do odd turns or jobs, esp. of housework; to work in this way by the day, without continuous employment; hence trans. (colloq.) to do the cleaning work of (a house) + Char - river in West Dorset.
ham - the back of the thigh; the thigh and buttock collectively. Usually in pl. + Kickham, Charles Joseph (1826-82) - Fenian, author of Knocknagow + (notebook 1922-23): 'dickens a curl has gone'.
frumpy - like a frump, dowdy, shabbily dull in colour or appearance; without brightness, smartness, or freshness + frump - a cross, old-fashioned, dowdily-dressed woman; Also, said of a dowdy dress + FDV: Dickens a funnier ever you saw.
mush - any soft or soggy mass
mullet - any fish of the families Mullidæ + Mullet - river in eastern Wisconsin in the United States.
her boy (notebook 1922-23)
Dublin bay + (notebook 1930): 'R Belon'.
Mayqueen, young girl which leads the mayday celebration in Britain (kyle foley) + Charitôn (gr) - of the Graces + {And they crowned her as their charity queen. Queen of the May?}
Darling - river in Australia, tributary of Murray
Murray, John - James Joyce's maternal gradfather + May Murray - James Joyce's mother + Murray - Australia's longest river + muddied.
*T* it is well she can't see herself [siglum not crayoned] (notebook 1924)
recognize + Regnitz - river in Bavaria, Germany.
waarvoor (Dutch) = hvorfor (Danish) - why + Wharfe - river in Yorkshire, England.
mercy me! + Mersey - river on which stands the city of Liverpool
koros (gr) - surfeit; youth + Kőrös - river in eastern Hungary + chorus
surfaceman - a miner or other labourer who works at the surface, or in the open air; on a railway, a workman who keeps the permanent way in repair + Joyce's note: 'surfacemen gangers } road' → Freeman's Journal 1 Feb 1924, 5/4: 'Free Fight. Wild Scenes at County Council Meeting': 'The trouble arose in connection with a notice of motion to make reductions in the wages of road workers, the pricipal figures being - surfacemen, from 45/- per week to 32/-; gangers, from 55/- to 42/-'.