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* '''Broadway:''' a street in New York → supposedly built by Irish labourers like [[Finnegan's_Wake|Tim Finnegan]]
 
* '''Broadway:''' a street in New York → supposedly built by Irish labourers like [[Finnegan's_Wake|Tim Finnegan]]
  
* '''Bygmester Finnegan ... lived in the broadest way:''' ''s [[Finnegan's Wake]]'': "Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street''
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* '''Bygmester Finnegan ... lived in the broadest way:''' ''(song) [[Finnegan's Wake]]'': "Tim Finnegan lived in Walker Street"
  
 
* '''broad:''' liberal minded; immoral
 
* '''broad:''' liberal minded; immoral
  
* '''''s Cockles and Mussels:''''' "Through streets broad and narrow"
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* '''Through streets broad and narrow:''' a line from the popular Dublin street ballad ''[[Cockles and Mussels]]''
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* '''broad:''' slang for a woman (especially a fast woman)
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[[Category: Songs and lyrics]]

Latest revision as of 07:27, 1 June 2019

  • Broadway: a street in New York → supposedly built by Irish labourers like Tim Finnegan
  • Bygmester Finnegan ... lived in the broadest way: (song) Finnegan's Wake: "Tim Finnegan lived in Walker Street"
  • broad: liberal minded; immoral
  • Through streets broad and narrow: a line from the popular Dublin street ballad Cockles and Mussels
  • broad: slang for a woman (especially a fast woman)