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*Howd - Howth Head, Dublin
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* '''Howth, Howth Head:''' the peninsula that lies to the north-east of Dublin; the name derives from the Danish ''hoved'', "head"
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130389&isize=M&q1=Howth A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
*Head felt heavy sleepy
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* "His howd it feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake": "His head felt heavy which made him shake"--line from the folk song "Finnegan's Wake",just before Tim Finnegan falls from the ladder to his death.
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* '''howd:''' a lurching, rocking movement
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* '''hod'''
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* '''howd feeled heavy:''' head felt heavy → sleepy
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* '''His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake:''' ''[[Finnegan's Wake]]'': "His head felt heavy which made him shake" (just before Tim Finnegan falls from the ladder to his "death")
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* '''reeled'''
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[[Category: Howth]]
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[[Category: Songs and lyrics]]

Latest revision as of 14:32, 19 January 2014

  • Howth, Howth Head: the peninsula that lies to the north-east of Dublin; the name derives from the Danish hoved, "head"
  • howd: a lurching, rocking movement
  • hod
  • howd feeled heavy: head felt heavy → sleepy
  • His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake: Finnegan's Wake: "His head felt heavy which made him shake" (just before Tim Finnegan falls from the ladder to his "death")
  • reeled