knock knock
Castleknock, west of Phoenix Park
muc (muk) (gael) - pig, swine + FSTD: Talk of Paddybarke's echo! Kick nack nuck, Knockcastle. Muck.
nose - to discover or notice by the sense of smell + William Shakespeare: Hamlet IV: (Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN) KING CLAUDIUS: Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? HAMLET: At supper. KING CLAUDIUS: At supper! where? HAMLET: Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain / convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your / worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all / creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for / maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but / variable service, two dishes, but to one table: / that's the end. KING CLAUDIUS: Alas, alas! HAMLET: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a / king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. KING CLAUDIUS: What dost you mean by this? HAMLET: Nothing but to show you how a king may go a / progress through the guts of a beggar. KING CLAUDIUS: Where is Polonius? / HAMLET: In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger / find him not there, seek him i' the other place / yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within / this month, you shall nose him as you go up the / stairs into the lobby.
warnword - a word of warning + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 24: 'Katy's Letter' (song): 'I loved him faithfully, And he knows it - oh, he knows it - without one word from me' (Katy doesn't put her love's name on the envelope for fear of nosy neighbours; originally, 'Katey's Song' by Lady Dufferin).
whome = home (obs.) + sender to whom (i.e. of letter) + FSTD: And you'll nose it, O you'll nose it without warnword from we. We don't know the sendor towhome.
treacly - having the sweetness or sticky consistence of treacle; also fig. characterized by excessive sweetness + shortcake - a cake made short or crisp with butter or lard + take the cake - to carry off the honours, rank first; often used ironically or as an expression of surprise.
HORN AND HOUND - English hunting journal, irreverently nicknamed the "Bugle and Bitch."
tyght = tight - to set, set firmly, fix, set up (an edifice), pitch (a tent)
talkin - a gathering or meeting for discussion, a conference + by the same token - for the same reason, further more, also.
whereabouts - about, concerning, or in regard to which (obs.)
hesitancy - indecision, vacillation + Hose (ger) - pants + Tanz (ger) - dance.
dat (Dutch, Irish) - that
celebrated + FSTD: And, be the seem talkin wharabahts hosetanzies, dat surl is sullibrated word? Bing bong! Saxolooter! For congesters are salders' prey.
Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 415 (XXI.2): 'A closely related theory is the nativistic, nicknamed the ding-dong, theory according to which there is a mystic harmony between sound and sense'.
Congested Districts Board in Ireland, late 19th century
soldier's pay + Angelus: 'et concepit de Spiritus Sancto' (l) - 'and she conceived of the Holy Ghost'.
snap up - to secure, obtain, take up, quickly or readily; to catch or seize with a quick bite or snap
loose (Rugby) - part of game in which ball is not in possession of any player + in the loose - at the last moment (obs.)
patchy - marked by patches, spotty; cross, ill-tempered + pitchblack - intensely black or dark.
blank - fig. A vacant space, place, or period + "or, failing of such, bash in Patch's blank face beyond recognition," [063.05]
gunnel - the upper edge of a ship's side; a type of fish + son of a gun - a somewhat depreciatory term for 'man, fellow' + O'Connell (said to have had numerous illegitimate children).
CARLOW - County and town, Leinster province. Ceathramba-loch, Ir. "fourfold lake"; there is no trace of the 4 lakes which according to tradition were formed by the Barrow River. Song: "Follow Me Up to Carlow."
vanquished - the person or persons defeated, etc. + vae victis (l) - woe to the vanquished.
aye - Indicating assent to a previous statement, and preliminary to a further or more forcible one.
wor = war (worse) + FSTD: Woes to the wormquashed aye, and wors to the winner!
aerian - of or belonging to the air or atmosphere = aerial + Vallum Hadriani (l) - Hadrian's Wall: wall begun a.d. 122 across northern Britain to fend off the Picts.
Polly Wolly Doodle (song) + FSTD: Give him another for to volleyholley doodlem!
boohoo - a word imitative of the sound of noisy weeping or laughter; also an expression of contempt (Sc.) + FSTD: His lights not all out yet, the liverpooser! Boohoohoo it oose!
hore = whore (obs.) + hores (Norwegian) - whores.
FSTD: With seven hores always in the home of his thoughts,
nice little home of his nice little thoughts + FSTD: his nodsloddledome of his noiselisslesoughts,
Ida - Gertrude Stein's short sketch, composed in 1937, published as a novel in 1940. Ida is a girl of dual personality who has a twin self, Ida-Ida + two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and mouth (seven holes).
phúca (Irish) - hobgoblin + FSTD: two Idas, two Evas, two Nessies and Rubyjuby. Phook!
kirle - obs. form of curl (n.) + boys and girls.
stink - to emit a strong offensive smell, to smell foully + FSTD: No wonder, pipes and gurgls, that he sthings like a rheinbok.
Rhein (ger) - Rhine River + Rehbock (ger) - roebuck + Bock (ger) = bok (Dutch) - he-goat, billy-goat + rainbow.
delusion - a deception; a fixed false opinion or belief with regard to objective things, esp. as a form of mental derangement + Elysium (l) - the abode of the blest.
mob - to attack in a mob or disorderly crowd + Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. She also appears in other 17th century literature, and in various guises in later poetry, drama and cinema. In the play her activity is described in a famous speech by Mercutio written in iambic pentameter, in which she is described as a miniature creature who drives her chariot into the noses and into the brains of sleeping people to compel them to experience dreams of wish-fulfillment. She would also bring the plague in some occasions. She is also described as a midwife to help sleepers 'give birth' to their dreams.
Falstaff - a fat, humorous, jovial knight in Shakespear's Hen. IV, Hen. V, and Merry Wives. In 1 Henry IV Falstaff "falls down as if he were dead" on the battlefield," but afterward rises up and continues his rogue's ways. At the end of 2 Henry IV Falstaff is "killed" again by the cold young king; and dies in the flesh in Henry V + full stop.
Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 415 (XXI.2): 'fourth theory, nicknamed the yo-he-ho: under any strong muscular effort it is a relief to the system to let breath come out strongly and repeatedly, and by that process to let the vocal chords vibrate in different ways'.
abdicate - to formally give up (a right, trust, office, or dignity); to renounce, abandon
gets our goat + FSTD: One bed night he had the delysiums that they were all queens mobbing him. Feel Stiff. Oh, ho, ho, ho, ah, he, he! It just gegs our goad!
will be the death of - to cause the death of (a person) esp. by laughing (humor)
Popocatepetl - volcano, México-Puebla state line, central Mexico + FSTD: He'll be the deaf of us, pappappoppopcuddle, samblind dairudder daiyrudder.
sandblind + some fine day or other.
yus = yes (obs.)
sordo (Italian) - deaf + sir
Fath - sura forty-eight of the Koran
woll- (ger) - want + will + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 23: 'Lanty Leary' (song): '"Faith I will," says Lanty Leary'.
putty - to cover or smear with putty + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 40: 'Paddy O'Rafther' (song by Samuel Lover).
wraught - obs. f. wrought, pa. tense of work (v.) + FSTD: Yus, sord, fathe, yoh yuo will, putty our wraughther! Beng!
agood - in good earnest; thoroughly, heartily
hen of yourn
glimlach (Dutch) - smile + glim (Slang) - candle + forty candlepower.
Rubin (ger) - ruby
peppy - full of pep or vigour; spirited, energetic, lively, forceful + What Are Little Girls Made Of? (nursery rhyme): 'puppydogs' tails'.
lot - Applied with depreciatory epithet to a person; chiefly in a bad lot.
wheaten loaf
proper - excellently, finely; genuinely, thoroughly
kiddy - a small child
Goirtin (gert'in) (gael) - Little tilled-field; name of many villages + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 7: 'The Maid of Sweet Gorteen' (song).
to a tittle - with minute exactness, to the smallest particular, to a T
deranged - disordered in mind, insane
etcetera + ceterus (l) - the other + FSTD: We sincerestly trust that Missus with the kids of sweet Gorteen has not been BINK to their very least tittles deranged if in BUNK and we greesiously offer augur to for Your Meggers a BENK BANK BUNK to sloop in with all sorts of odceteras and adsaturas.
ad (l) - to, at + saturas (l) - dish of various kinds of food; mixed salad; stew.
The 1912 disaster of the White Star liner "Titanic" appears in FW by way of the popular song, "It's Your Last Trip, Titanic, Fare Thee Well." There was a White Star Canadian liner "Megantic", built in 1908. It escaped disaster.
referee - one to whom any matter or question in dispute is referred for decision; an umpire
hailing - greeting, salutation; calling out to attract attention + take to one's heels - to run away.
pass the time
Black Watch - the 42nd Highland regiment of the British army + washerwomen + (Valkyries).
Birgad - female messenger sent by Finn three times to make terms with his enemies before his last battle (Cross & Slover: Ancient Irish Tales 429-431).
Armitage, a bookseller, was the last 'king of Dalkey' → "kings of the arans and the dalkeys" [087.25-.26]
flax - to wrap in fine linen
Tem - creator in 'The Book of the Dead' + Tea for Two (song) + Finnegan's Wake, chorus: 'Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake'.
Tammany - Deleware chief, facetiously canonized as patron saint of U.S.A. His name was adopted by a New York City fraternal organization whose building, Tammany Hall, was a byword for political corruption in the Democratic Party, long a nest of Irish-American bosses and ward-heelens.
carry away - to move forcibly from the firm footing of reason and judgement + (slain carried away).
bourne - a small stream, a brook
bower - a fancy rustic cottage or country residence
KEHOE, DONNELLY AND PAKENHAM - Ham and bacon curers, 12-14 Brabazon Street + *VYC*.
musketeers + FSTD: So we'll leave it to Keyhoe, Damnally Danelly, and Pikemham Pykemhyme, the three muskrateers,