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* '''Butthead:''' [[Charles_Stewart_Parnell|Parnell's]] boyhood nickname
 
* '''Butthead:''' [[Charles_Stewart_Parnell|Parnell's]] boyhood nickname
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160310&q1=Parnell Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0310&isize=M&q1=Parnell Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
  
 
* '''buttended:''' struck with the butt-end of a gun
 
* '''buttended:''' struck with the butt-end of a gun

Revision as of 08:28, 4 June 2008

  • buttended: struck with the butt-end of a gun
  • Butt ended → "Parnell ousted Isaac Butt from leadership [of the Irish Parliamentary Party]" – Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to Harriet Shaw Weaver
  • Butt Bridge: a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin
  • butted → goat → Jacob's goatskin (Genesis 27) → the zodiacal sign of Capricorn?