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* '''rowdy:''' (''obsolete slang'') money → [[with a mint of]] [[mines]] in the same line | * '''rowdy:''' (''obsolete slang'') money → [[with a mint of]] [[mines]] in the same line | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050060&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:] "rowdyrags" | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050060&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:] "rowdyrags" | ||
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+ | * "'reekierags or sundyechosies:"' contains references to the Ragged Schools (created by Pound, 1818) and Sunday Schools, inspired by Raikes (1736-1811) |
Revision as of 05:43, 26 March 2011
- reaking rags
- reekier: smokier; more foul; smellier
- Ragnarök: (Old Norse) in Scandinavian mythology, the fate of the gods; the end of the world
- ric à rac: (French) with rigorous exactitude
- rowdy: (obsolete slang) money → with a mint of mines in the same line
- A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake: "rowdyrags"
- "'reekierags or sundyechosies:"' contains references to the Ragged Schools (created by Pound, 1818) and Sunday Schools, inspired by Raikes (1736-1811)