Blotty words
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- Blubby wares upat Ublanium
- Blurry works at Hurdlesford
- Bloody wars in Ballyaughacleeaghbally
- Blotty words for Dublin
- blotto: drunk
- bloody wars: (Anglo-Irish) an oath
- Ulysses 328.31: "Bloody wars, says I, I'll be in for the last gospel."
- blot: to smear → blotty words = FW
- smutty words → Ulysses was regarded widely as a "dirty book"