Awful Grimmest Sunshat Cromwelly. Looted
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- Brothers Grimm: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German scholars and folklorists → Grimms Fairy Tales → Grimm’s Law, which describes the phonetic shifts that occurred in Proto-Germanic
- sunshade
- gunshot
- Cromwell: Oliver Cromwell, English warlord who invaded Ireland in 1649 and ruthlessly suppressed the native Catholics; the latter had originally revolted in 1641 and later supported Charles I and his Royalists in the English Civil War
- welly: a Wellington boot, named after the Duke of Wellington, but now the standard working footwear of the Irish farmer
- loot: (1) to lurk, lie concealed; (2) to make obeisance, to bow; (3) to pillage
- Crowley: Aleister Crowley, diabolist
