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− | * '''Butthead:''' [[ | + | * '''Butthead:''' [[Parnell|Charles Stewart Parnell's]] boyhood nickname |
** [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] | ** [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] | ||
Revision as of 15:58, 7 June 2008
- Butthead: Charles Stewart Parnell's boyhood nickname
- Isaac Butt:
- 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?
- pretended → scad