Tarandtan plaidboy
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- tarraingteach: (Irish) attractive
- The Playboy of the Western World: an iconic Oedipal play by John Millington Synge, though the Playboy Christy Mahon is identified in FW with S the Man Servant in HCE's tavern
- taran: (Welsh) thunder
- Black [tar] & Tans: irregular British recruits serving in the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920-21; they were notorious for their brutality and lawlessness
- taran-taran played by...: a military drumbeat?
- ’when the foeman bares his steel tarantara ..’ (Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance), continuing on the theme of ‘sword by his side’, only in Jerry it’s the criminal element who holds it
