Reekierags
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- reekier: smokier; more foul; smellier
- Ragnarök: (Old Norse) in Scandinavian mythology, the fate of the gods; the end of the world
- ric à rac: (French) with rigorous exactitude
- rowdy: (obsolete slang) money → with a mint of mines in the same line
- A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake: "rowdyrags"
- reekierags or sundyechosies: contains references to the Ragged Schools (created by Pound, 1818) and Sunday Schools, inspired by Raikes (1736-1811)