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* '''anam:''' (''Irish'') soul * '''Thanum-on-dioul:''' (''Anglo-Irish'') The Devil take you! (a curse) * '''D'anam 'on Diabhal:''' (''Irish'') Your soul to the Devil! (a common curse) * '''Thanam o’n dhoul, do ye think I’m dead?''' (''song'') ''[[Finnegan's Wake]]'' → in the folk song, when Tim Finnegan revives he asks why the whiskey is being flung around and shouts this curse at the unruly mourners at his wake * '''mac an dhiabhail:''' (''Irish'') son of the devil * '''muck:''' there may be an allusion here to the etymology of the word ''devil'', from the Greek ''diabolos'', which literally means "slanderer" = "muck-raker", "mudslinger" * '''muc:''' (''Irish'') pig [[Category:Anglo-Irish phrases]] [[Category:Irish phrases]] [[Category: Songs and lyrics]] [[Category:Pigs]]

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