A proudseye view

• a bird’s-eye view

• Nicholas Proud: (1) secretary of the Dublin Port and Docks Board in the late 19th Century; (2) a Doctor of Divinity in the 17th Century
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• proud: desirous of copulation; a proud bitch = a bitch at heat, or desirous of a dog
  • Grose: A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue