Difference between revisions of "Bulbenboss"
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Revision as of 09:38, 23 October 2006
- Ben Bulben: a mountain in County Sligo, Ireland, widely known in the poem Under Ben Bulben by William Butler Yeats; said to be the resting place of Gráinne (File:Izzy.png), the bride of Fionn mac Cumhail (File:HCE.png), and Diarmuid (File:Shem-Shaun.PNG), her lover
- boss: a hump on the back (or more generally, any swelling or protuberance on the body) → HCE has a humpback
- boss: a hod; a plasterer’s tray → Tim Finnegan carries a hod in the balled Finnegan's Wake
- boss: a knobby protuberance
- burning bush (L/R split) → FW 005.02 burning bush
