Teary turty Taubling

• Dear Dirty Dublin: Lady Sidney Morgan’s phrase
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• teary: tearful, pathetic

• thirty

• turd: a lump of dung; a piece of shit
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake

• Turteltaube: (German) turtledove → Issy → FW 005.17: hurtleturtled

• Täublein: (German) little dove → Issy

• taub: (German) deaf → in FW Swift is often described as being deaf-and-dumb → see tum in the previous line

• tub → A Tale of a Tub → a teel of a tum and Try Our Taal on a Taub

• tauftauf → an echo of tauftauf (FW 003.10), from German taufen: to baptise