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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''kid:''' a young goat → the zodiacal sign of Capricorn?
 
* '''kid:''' a young goat → the zodiacal sign of Capricorn?
  

Revision as of 01:05, 2 June 2008

  • kid: a young goat → the zodiacal sign of Capricorn?
  • scad: a trick → the ruse by which Jacob clothed himself with the skin of a goat in order to receive the birthright of his elder brother Esau (Genesis 27)
  • kid's cadet: i.e. younger brother → Jacob
  • kid-clad → Genesis 27.16: "And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon [Jacob's] hands, and upon the smooth of his neck"
  • cad: a scoundrel
  • scad: a type of fish → the zodiacal sign of Pisces?
  • scad: (slang) a dollar
  • hit squad ?