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07:57, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Flaskneck (Created page with "* '''Aries:''' The astrological sign for Aries looks vaguely like the neck of a flask.")
07:54, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Snobsic (Created page with "* '''snobstick''' (''slang'') a scab, a worker who refuses to join a strike. * '''snobbish'''")
07:53, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Wearywilly (Created page with "* '''Weary Willie''' One of a pair of lazy tramps in the English comic-strip ''Weary Willie and Tired Tim'', inspired by Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. They were created by Tom...")
07:51, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Semisigns (Created page with "* '''σῆμα [sēma]''' (''Ancient Greek'') sign : omen, portent : barrow, tumulus, tomb : constellation. All these meanings are relevant.")
07:48, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Windy (Created page with "* '''Wyndham Lewis:''' British author and literary critic. His ''Time and Western Man'' (1927) is highly critical of ''Ulysses'' for being a time-centred work. Lewis regarded...")
07:32, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Mr Melancholy Slow! (Created page with "* '''''The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society'':''' A philosophical poem by Oliver Goldsmith. The opening lines are: <blockquote>''Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,''</br...")
07:27, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Traveller remote, unfriended (Created page with "* '''''The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society''''' A philosophical poem by Oliver Goldsmith. The opening lines are: <blockquote>''Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,''</br>...")
07:21, 2 January 2023 Eroica talk contribs created page Olderwise (Created page with "* '''otherwise'''")
03:52, 19 December 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page A beam of sunshine (Created page with "* '''to a beam of sunshine upon a coffin plate''' Allegedly, the Irish politician and orator John Philpot Curran once compared someone’s smile to ''a silver plate on a coffi...")
04:26, 17 December 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page (mat and far!) (Created page with "* '''metaphor''' does thin mean that the preceding phrase, '''the bump at Castlebar''', is to be understood in a figurative sense. That is to say, it refers to the Castlebar R...")
04:23, 29 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Conventional! (Created page with " * '''conventional eggs''' eggs laid by caged hens, as opposed to pasture-raised or free-range eggs. This parenthesis qualifies the passage in which Joyce elaborately parodies...")
05:40, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Lick-Pa-flai-hai-pa-Pa-li-si-lang-lang (Created page with "* '''Lick-Pa''' Like Pa, with a salacious element added. * '''flai''' (quasi ''Chinese Pidgin'') afraid. * '''flai-hai''' fly high? * '''害怕''' [hàipà] (''Chinese'') t...")
05:34, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page O thaw bron orm, A'Cothraige, thinkinthou gaily? (Created page with "* '''Ó, tá brón orm, a Chothraige, an dtuigeann tú Gaedhealg''' (''Irish'') Oh, I’m sorry, St Patrick, do you understand Irish?")
05:32, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page En son succo, sabez (Created page with "* '''en son''' (''French'') in his, in its, in her, in their. * '''en son de''' (''Spanish'') in, as (= in a certain manner, in the guise of) * '''succo''' (''Italian'') jui...")
05:28, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Despenseme Usted, senhor (Created page with "* '''dispénseme''' (''Spanish'') excuse me. * '''usted''' (''Spanish'') you. * '''senhor''' (''Portuguese'') sir : mister.")
05:25, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Cha kai rotty kai makkar, sahib? (Created page with "* '''चाय की पत्ती''' [chāy kī pattī] (''Hindi'') tea leaf. * '''και''' [kai] (''Greek'') and. * '''रोटी''' [roṭī] (''Hindi'') bread. *...")
05:17, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Tippoty, kyrie, tippoty. (Created page with "* '''τίποτε, κύριε, τίποτε''' [tipote, kyrie, tipote] (''Modern Greek'') nothing, sir, nothing : you’re welcome : don’t mention it. * '''τί, κύριε...")
05:14, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Scudi (Created page with "* '''scudi''' (''Italian'') five-lira coins (discontinued in 1918) : shields. * '''scusi''' (''Italian'') excuse me.")
05:08, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Losdoor onleft mladies, cue. (Created page with "* '''Last door on the left, m’ladies. Thank you.''' Directions to the Ladies—female toilets—outside of which there is a queue. * '''mlad''' (''Serbo-Croatian'') young.")
05:03, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Bleak and bronze (Created page with "* '''Black & Tans''' The Black & Tans were an irregular force of British men (mostly unemployed World War I veterans) recruited by the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Iri...")
05:01, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page You list (Created page with "* '''list''' like * '''list''' (''archaic'') listen, listen to. This harks back to two earlier passages: one in the opening chapter, and the other just a few pages before the...")
04:55, 10 November 2022 Eroica talk contribs created page Dog's life (Created page with "* '''dog’s life''' a miserable or wretched existence. * '''dog day''' Joyce originally wrote '''dog’s day'''. The dog days are the hot, sultry days of summer, which follo...")
09:45, 18 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page The Liberties (Created page with "*'''The Liberties:''' Roughly the area of Old Dublin South of the Liffey bounded East and West by the Castle and St James's Gate, North and South by the Quays and Blackpitts....")
09:41, 18 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Pump Court (Created page with "*'''Pump Court, London:''' (featured in ''Charles Dickens: all works: Martin Chuzzlewit'') *'''Pump Alley, Dublin''' (crosses Liberty Street)")
03:40, 18 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Abide With Oneanother (Created page with "*'''''Abide with Me''''' (''song'') *'''abed with one another'''")
04:10, 14 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Brigid Brewster's (Created page with "*'''Brighid''' (“brid”) (''Gael'') "strength"; fem. n.; goddess of poetry")
04:02, 14 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Duck and Doggies (Created page with "*'''Duck and Dog Tavern:''' an 18th century Dublin pub")
03:53, 14 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Eglandine's (Created page with "*'''eglantine:''' dog rose (used for rosehip wine) *'''Engadine:''' Rhaeto-Romanic is spoken in the Swiss valley of Engadine *'''E'''glandine's '''c'''hoicest '''h'''erbage ([...")
03:41, 14 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Creeping jenny (Created page with "*'''creeping jenny:''' a type of flowering plant")
05:52, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page With meth (Created page with "*'''well met''' (follows ‘Hail fellow ..’)")
05:41, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Counties capalleens (Created page with "*'''Countess Cathleen''' (Yeats) *'''capaillín:''' (''Irish'') little horse")
05:18, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Gurgle off his own along of the butty bloke (Created page with "*'''gargle:''' (''slang'') a drink *'''butty:''' (''Dublin slang'') drinking companion *'''Butt''' (see 338.11) *'''batty:''' crazy, insane *'''as blind as a bat''' *'''bootbl...")
05:08, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Sundays (Created page with "*'''Sunday papers'''")
05:02, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Clobber (Created page with "*'''motor club''' *'''clobber:''' (''slang'') clothes")
04:59, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Passon (Created page with "*'''person''' *'''parson''' *'''passion''' *'''bassoon'''")
03:45, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page A small thick un (Created page with "*'''thick 'un:''' a sovereign (one pound, twenty shillings) or crown (five shillings, sixty pence) coin")
03:40, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Jimmy o'goblin (Created page with "*'''Jimmy O'Goblin:''' a sovereign coin")
03:18, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Tip- (Created page with "*'''tipster:''' a man who makes a business of furnishing 'tips' or confidential information as to the probable chances of an event on which betting depends, esp. in horse-racing")
01:45, 10 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Frisky Shorty (Created page with "*'''Frisky Shorty:''' ref to ''Irish Times'' 18 Nov 1922, 9/6: 'Literary Vagabonds': 'stealing free rides on freight trains with kindred knights of the road known as "Boston S...")
06:41, 9 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Finnish pork (Created page with "*'''Phoenix Park''' *'''finest port'''")
06:27, 9 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Leg of Kehoe (Created page with "*'''keg of finest port''' *'''Kehoe, Donnelly, and Pakenham:''' Dublin ham curers")
07:50, 7 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Out of pop (Created page with "*'''out of pawn:''' (''slang'') out of prison *'''out of pop:''' (''slang'') out of pawn")
07:40, 7 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Treacle Tom (Created page with "*'''Treacle Tommy:''' George Formby, Sr.: song, “My Grandfather's Clock”: 'My grandfather's clock was me mother's p'ramberlator, Round the park in it we used to ride. Ther...")
02:51, 7 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Timcoves (Created page with "*'''coves:''' (''slang'') fellows *'''tinkers'''")
00:50, 7 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Nappies (Created page with "*'''daddy of them all:''' the best or finest example of something (in ''Ulysses'' 14.1415): 'Thou art all their daddies, Theodore'")
00:31, 7 September 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Winny Widger (Created page with "*'''Joe Widger:''' an amateur jockey who won the 1895 Grand National race, riding a horse called Wild Man from Borneo (part of a large Waterford family involved in horse deali...")
18:19, 11 August 2022 PaulHammond talk contribs created page Woollem the farsed (Names of English Kings)
08:03, 2 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Drummer Coxon (Created page with "*'''drummer:''' a horse with an irregular foreleg action *'''coxswain'''")
07:57, 2 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Saint Dalough (Created page with "*'''Saint Doolagh:''' a village near Baldoyle and Raheny")
22:23, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Stablecloth finish (Created page with "*'''tablecloth finish:''' an 1882 edition of ''The London Bicycle Club Gazette'' refers to a bicycle race ending in a “tablecloth finish.”")
22:14, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Plate (Created page with "*'''plate:''' in Horse-racing, a prize consisting of a silver or gold cup or the like given to the winner of a race **Also connected to several dining metaphors here")
22:10, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Hackney (Created page with "*'''hackney:''' a horse used for ordinary riding (as opposed to hunting, warfare, racing, etc.)")
22:09, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Classic (Created page with "*'''Classics:''' five chief English horse races")
09:08, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Peer and prole (Created page with "*'''peer:''' member of one of the degrees of nobility in the United Kingdom *'''prole:''' member of the proletariat")
09:07, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page National (Created page with "*See p. 13: Grand and national")
08:45, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Perkin (Created page with "'''Perkin Warbeck:''' a pretender to the English throne; obtained Irish support")
08:40, 1 July 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Dublin details (Created page with "*'''Dublin Details:''' a newspaper column about Dublin race horses")
06:45, 30 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Through the card (Created page with "*'''go through the card:''' (''slang'') (of a jockey) win every race on the program")
05:14, 30 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Safe and sane (Created page with "*'''sauf et sain''' (''French''): safe and sound, free from danger or injury")
20:56, 29 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Rubiend (Created page with "*'''rubied''' (ripe, as in ear ready to hear)")
08:36, 29 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Philly Thurnston (Created page with "*'''Philly''': Philadelphia, city in Pennsylvania *'''filly:''' young mare, young female horse *''' turnstone: a type of bird'''")
08:16, 29 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page My bravor best! my fraur! (Created page with "*'''mon frère''': Baudelaire: ''Les Fleurs du Mal:'' Au Lecteur: '— Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!' (French '— Hypocrite reader, — my equal, —...")
09:47, 28 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Hands between (Created page with "*'''between hands''' (of a clock): interval of time")
09:42, 28 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page What Mere Aloyse said but for Jesuphine's sake! (Created page with "*'''Mère l'Oye:''' (''French'') Mother Goose (pantomime, as well as the imaginary author of several nursery rhyme collections) *'''Marie Louise''' and '''Josephine''' Napoleo...")
08:42, 28 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Crookedribs (Created page with "*'''Crooked rib''' **Milton, ''Paradise Lost'' ch. X, line 884-6 (Adam lamenting on Eve): “Rather than solid virtue; all but a rib / Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears,...")
12:04, 27 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Poul soul (Created page with "*'''poor soul''' *'''Paul / Saul''' St. Paul was originally known as Saul in the New Testament (see vincentian)")
09:54, 27 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Volatiles valetotum (Created page with "*'''vanitas vanitatum''' Ecclesiastes 1:2 ''Latin'' (Vulgate): 'vanity of vanities') *'''volatilis''' (''Latin'') flying *'''vale''' (''Latin'') farewell")
06:32, 27 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Pecklapitschens (Created page with "*'''pech:''' (''Rhaeto-Romanic'') breast *'''pieck:''' (''Rhaeto-Romanic'') breast *'''peclas:''' (''Rhaeto-Romanic'') a cake made on Shrove Tuesday *'''pitschen:''' (''Rhaeto...")
06:07, 27 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Pudden come (Created page with "*'''pudendum:''' female genitalia *'''cum:''' (''Latin'') with")
05:54, 27 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Esnekerry (Created page with "*'''Enniskerry:''' village near Dublin")
00:30, 24 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Cobwebcrusted (Created page with "*'''crusted:''' (of port, and other wine) has deposited a sediment (called 'crust') as a result of the intentional in-bottle fermentation process (requiring it to be decanted...")
00:25, 24 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Leaman's (Created page with "*'''leman''' (''Archaic'') lover, sweetheart, mistress *'''teaman''' prisoner (slang); a marijuana addict *'''teaman’s farewell''' (allusion to the last word of FW) *'''seam...")
00:18, 24 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Bounquet (Created page with "*'''Though Humble the Banquet''' (''song'') from ''Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies'' [air: Farewell Eamon] (“Though humble the banquet to which I invite thee, / Thou'lt find th...")
00:07, 24 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Tablelights (Created page with "'''tablets''' (of stone, the Ten Commandments - see “musaic dispensation” on prev. page)")
00:09, 23 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Zaynith (Created page with "zaynith (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation: zenith zayit (Hebrew): olive")
00:07, 23 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Marrying (Created page with "*'''marinading'''")
00:05, 23 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Spolish (Created page with "*'''Spanish''' *'''Polish'''")
23:45, 22 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Regional platter (Created page with "*'''plat regional:''' (''French'') local dish")
20:26, 21 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Snevel (Created page with "*'''sne:''' (''Danish'') snow –037.35+ snivel")
20:24, 21 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Chaff it (Created page with "*'''dash it''' *'''damn it''' *'''Japhet:''' son of Noah")
20:18, 21 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Hoarsely (Created page with "*'''horse''' *'''horseradish'''")
01:04, 21 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Bombay (Created page with "*'''Peach Bombé''' (frozen dessert) “dabbed Peach Bombay” resembles Escoffier’s dubbing a new desert “Peach Melba,” after singer Nellie Melba.")
00:56, 21 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Spuckertuck (Created page with "*'''stuck''' *'''Spucker:''' (''German'') person who spits *'''Tuch:''' (''German'') cloth")
20:21, 20 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Belcher (Created page with "*'''belcher:''' a neckerchief of deep blue with large white spots, each containing a dark blue spot, darker than the ground (so called after Jem Belcher (1781-1811), a well-kn...")
06:01, 20 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Ascendances (Created page with "*'''Anglo-Irish Ascendancy''' **c.f. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Ascendancy")
05:12, 12 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Studding (Created page with "*'''Studd:''' a family of English cricketers")
00:36, 12 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Arvanda (Created page with "*'''Arvada, Colorado''': Site of the first documented discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountain Region")
01:41, 9 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Jointly kem gently (Created page with "*'''Johnny-come-lately'''")
01:40, 9 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Mall (Created page with "*'''Charlemont Mall:''' southern Dublin street, bordering Grand Canal near Portabello *'''Charleville Mall:''' northern Dublin street, bordering Royal Canal near North Strand...")
10:36, 3 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Reflection (Created page with "*shadow *photographic memory")
04:59, 3 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Verbigracious (Created page with "*'''verbigeration:''' repetition of the same word or phrase in a meaningless fashion (a symptom of mental illness) See 611, line 29 *'''verbi gratia:''' (''Latin'') for instance")
11:54, 2 June 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Snorler (Created page with "*'''snarler''' (dog) *'''schnorrer:''' (''Yiddish'') beggar or sponge; an example of would be Lenehan in “Two Gallants” and Ulysses.")
06:18, 31 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Mouldy voids (Created page with "*'''mighty voice:''' Psalms 68:33: 'lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice' *'''mouldy:''' (''Anglo-Irish Slang'') drunk")
07:28, 28 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Abock (Created page with "*'''Bock:''' (''German'') he-goat; (''French '') glass of beer")
01:49, 25 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Was to make (Created page with "'''it was to make''': (''German'') es war zu machen: it had to be done, it could be done (literally 'it was to make')")
09:00, 18 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Won straight (Created page with "*'''one straight''' (I.e. erection) *'''strait''' (''Archaic'') narrow (contrasted with ‘wide’ below")
02:19, 16 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Commutative justice (Created page with "*'''commutative justice:''' a term used by Aquinas (after Aristotle) to denote justice that is corrective in transactions between man and man (as opposed to distributive justice)")
02:15, 16 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Immediate withdwellers (Created page with "*'''immediate withdrawal''' *'''Mitwohner:''' (''German'') a person sharing one's living-quarters (literally 'with-dweller')")
02:12, 16 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Andwell (Created page with "indwell")
02:09, 16 May 2022 Thinginitself talk contribs created page Taskmaster's (Created page with "ref in ''John Milton: other works'': Sonnet VII: 'my great task Masters eye’")

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