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* '''rory:''' (''obsolete, rare'') dewy → from '''roridus:''' (''Latin'') dewy → [[Mildew Lisa]] → "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red" – Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | * '''rory:''' (''obsolete, rare'') dewy → from '''roridus:''' (''Latin'') dewy → [[Mildew Lisa]] → "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red" – Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | ||
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+ | * '''rory:''' (''dialect'') (1) loud or gaudy in colour; rory-tory; (2) noisy, boisterous → [[Page_41|FW 041.28: roaratorios]] | ||
* '''Rory, Ruaidhrí, Roderic:''' variants of an Irish name which means "red-haired" | * '''Rory, Ruaidhrí, Roderic:''' variants of an Irish name which means "red-haired" |
Revision as of 15:42, 3 June 2008
- bad luck → worse bloody end → rory end
- rory: (obsolete, rare) dewy → from roridus: (Latin) dewy → Mildew Lisa → "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red" – Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- rory: (dialect) (1) loud or gaudy in colour; rory-tory; (2) noisy, boisterous → FW 041.28: roaratorios
- Rory, Ruaidhrí, Roderic: variants of an Irish name which means "red-haired"
- Rory O'Connor, or Ruaidhrí Ua Conchubair: High King of Ireland when Henry II came from the East; he was the last native King of Ireland, hence "Rory end"
- bloody end to the lie = no lie: Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver → hence, "rory end to the..." means "no end to the..." → the cyclical history of FW goes on and on
- nary an end: (Scots) never an end
- bloody end to the...: (Anglo-Irish) damn the..., to hell with the...
- gory: bloody → red
- Rosy: red (or pink)
- Roderic: the last Visigothic king of Spain