nil - nothing
nix - nothing + once one is nought, twice two is nil, thrice three makes nine.
fair's fair (phrase)
stop at nothing - to be prevented by no obstacle ("They stopped at nothing in order to obtain their favourite food").
Patrick - name of the patron saint of Ireland
pose - to examine by questioning, question, interrogate (obs.); to place in a difficulty with a question or problem
apiece - for each piece, article, thing, or (colloq.) person
apace - at a pace, i.e. at a considerable or good pace; hence, With speed; swiftly, quickly + This is the way the ladies ride (nursery rhyme): 'apace, apace'.
share - a part taken in (an action, experience, etc.)
guinea - an English gold coin, not coined since 1813, first struck in 1663 with the nominal value of 20s., but from 1717 until its disappearance circulating as legal tender at the rate of 21s. + Guinnesses
weepful - full of weeping, mournful
twister - fig. something that confounds, non-plusses, or 'doubles up' + lessons
me go tu (me gu tu) (gael) - I to you + (notebook 1924): 'Pa, let me go too (a e i o u)'.
quicken - the mountain-ash, or rowan-tree (Pyrus aucuparia) + trans. luis (gael) - letter L.
aspen = asp - a tree of the poplar family (Populus tremula), with greyish bark and spreading branches, the leaves of which are specially liable to the tremulous motion that characterizes all the poplars + trans. eabhadh (gael) - letter E.
nuin (gael trans.) - letter N
iodha (gael trans.) - letter I
sail (gael trans.) - letter S
broom - a shrub, Sarothamnus or Cytisus Scoparius, bearing large handsome yellow papilionaceous flowers; abundant on sandy banks, pastures, and heaths in Britain, and diffused over Western Europe + trans. oir (gael) - letter O.
dair (gael trans.) - letter D + [LENISOD] le'n (len) Iosada (iside) (gael) - with the fem. personal name: Isolda (O Hehir, Brendan / A Gaelic lexicon for Finnegans wake, and glossary for Joyce's other works)
limpet - a gasteropod mollusc of the genus Patella, having an open tent-shaped shell and found adhering tightly to the rock which it makes its resting-place
spose - repr. an informal pronunc. of suppose (v.) + spose (it) - brides.
promysl (Russian) - providence
love all - in tennis, a 0:0 score
this + Thomas Moore, song: Nay, Tell Me Not, Dear [air: Dennis, Don't Be Threatening].
Eustachian tube joins ear and nose
inghean (inyen) (geal) - daughter, girl + ingen (Danish) - nothing, nobody.
miongain (mingan) (geal) - of a seashell
out of joint - fig. Disordered, perverted, out of order, disorganized. (Said of things, conditions, etc.; formerly also of persons in relation to conduct) + his nose is out of joint (Irish phrase) - he has been supplanted.
ovum (l) - egg + aren't they awful + Ondt/Gracehoper (motif).
bless me! - ejaculation of surprise + obélisque (fr. slang) - penis.
Pretty Kitty Kelly (song)
poddy - an unbranded calf; a person with protruded stomach + bod (bud) (geal) - penis + somebody.
pit - to make hollows or depressions in or upon + pit (pit) (geal) - vulva + put
petty - petticoat; a little boy at school + anybody.
pull it + 'Ding-dong Bell, Pussy's in the well. Who put her in?... Who pulled her out?' (nursery rhyme)
kitty - a girl or young woman; a kitten; used esp. as a pet name + "Pretty Kitty Kelly" - a song.
kelly - rhyming slang for belly + "Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykillkilly: a toll, a toll." [004.07]
kisse (Swedish) - pussy
buzzard - fig. A worthless, stupid, or ignorant person.
young + ung (Danish) - young.
girls + nightingales
alift - to lift
aloft - Of direction: Into the air, or from the ground; up, upward, on high + Who Killed Cock Robin? (nursery rhyme): 'All the birds of the air Fell a-sighing and a-sobbing'.
ombrellone (it) - beach umbrella
parasol - a handheld collapsible source of shade + Persse O'Reilly.
blackthorn stick (shillelagh)
Shillelagh - barony and village in Co. Wicklow + FSTD: Here all the leaves alift aloft full o'liefing fell a-laughing over Ombellone and his parasollieras and those black thornguards from the County Shillelagh. Ignorants invincibles, innocents immutands.
Invincibles - the perpetrators of the Phoenix Park murders, 1882 + ignorantia invincibilis (l) - invincible ignorance, i.e. that shared by a whole race or class (theology).
immutans (l) - unchanging
Onkel (ger) - uncle + onze (Dutch) - our.
great father - a grandfather + grootvader (Dutch) = Grossvater (ger) - grandfather + vatter (Dutch) - seizer, grabber, one who grabs.
Ludwig, William (1847-1923) - "the great Irish light bass" (Letters, III, 335), who sang "The Croppy Boy" + Lodewijk (Dutch) - Lewis, Louis → Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).
onaangenaam (Dutch) - disagreeable, nasty + genaamd (Dutch) - named + onanism.
primrose - a well-known plant, bearing pale yellowish flowers in early spring, growing wild in woods and hedges and on banks, esp. on clayey soil, and cultivated in many varieties as a garden plant (PICTURE).
twy (Archaic) - two + FSTD: [Onzel] Grootvatter [Lodewijk] is onangonamed [before the bridge of primrose.] And his [twee] Isa Boldmans is [met the blueybells] near Dandelioned.
Isa Bowman - as Mr Atherton points out, the child actress who first played Alice. She was a great child-friend of Lewis Carroll's.
met (Dutch) - with
bluebell - a spring-flowering bulbous perennial plant (PICTURE) + bluey - inclined to blue; more or less blue.
dandelion - a well-known Composite plant, abundant in meadows and waste ground throughout Europe, Central and Northern Asia, and North America, with widely toothed leaves, and a large bright yellow flower upon a naked hollow stalk, succeeded by a globular head of pappose seed (PICTURE).
Gorsedd - a meeting of Welsh bards and druids; esp. the assembly which meets each day during a certain period as a preliminary to the eisteddfod + cursed.
goddomme (Dutch) - (swear word) + godons (Old French) - English (derogatory) + dom (Dutch) - stupid + Sodom.
orangetawny - of a dull yellowish brown colour; tan-coloured or brownish-yellow with a tinge of orange
wanted + badly wounded.
Buckley + FSTD: A lark of limonladies! A luck of orangetowney men! You're backley woumted buckley mister, bester of the boyne.
bester - one who gets the better of others by fraudulent means
Battle of the Boyne - (July 1, 1690), a victory for the forces of King William III of England over the former king James II, fought on the banks of the River Boyne in Ireland. James, a Roman Catholic, had been forced to abdicate in 1688 and, with the help of the French and the Irish, was attempting to win back his throne.
marrer - one who mars; a destroyer + The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Supplemental Nights, vol. III, 361: The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette: 'they led the liefest of lives until at last there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of societies... and they became as though they never had been'.
Jack the Ripper - popular name for a murderer of women in London in 1888, who mutilated the bodies of his victims (*E*)
jocular - a professional jester or minstrel
many's the time - on many occasions, in many instances; often, frequently
Hilarion, St - abbot who introduced the monastic system into Palestine. "As he lay down how often did not nude women encircle him?"
The Gesta Romanorum was a medieval collection of popular tales in Latin. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and others drew on its tales + gestare (l) - to bear + Romanov - Russian royal family + verum (l) - truth.
swink - to labour, toil, work hard; to exert oneself, take trouble
unravel - to free from intricacy or obscurity; to make plain or obvious; to reveal or disclose
droughty - dry, without moisture; thirsty; often = addicted to drinking + {back at the pub - the customers gossip about the landlord and his wife}
Genesis 1:2: 'the face of the waters'
sorry + gueux (fr) - beggar.
blotty - covered with blots, dauby + blue