having - that which one has or possesses; possession, wealth, belongings + (sinning God).
gibbous - Of persons and animals: Hunch-backed.
dag (Dutch) - day + 'Our Father, Which art in Heaven' down to 'Give us this day our daily bread' (Lord's Prayer).
confiteor - a form of prayer, or confession of sins ('Confiteor Deo Omnipotenti', I confess to Almighty God, etc.) used in the Latin Church at the beginning of the mass, in the sacrament of penance, and on other occasions + confiseur (fr) - confectioner.
boob - a dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a clown, a nincompoop
indulgence - full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven. The indulgence is granted by the Catholic Church after the sinner has confessed and received absolution + Pope's indulgence + intelligence.
salmebog (Danish) - hymnbook
councillor - a private or confidential adviser
TRENT - City, North-East Italy, Austrian until 1919. The Council of Trent, 1545-1563, established the principles of the Counter-Reformation, and ended all possibility of reconciliation between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism + omtrent (Danish) - approximately.
pave - to lay or cover with a pavement (a street, road, floor, etc.) + Cave Canem (l) - Beware the dog + panem (Acc.) (l) - bread + pave (Danish) - pope.
gaiter - a covering of cloth, leather, etc. for the ankle, or ankle and lower leg
bronze - impudence, unblushingness
nummer - obs. f. number
hundred + halvtreds (Danish) - fifty.
Log an Lagh (lug un la) (gael) - Hollow of the Hill; valley, Co. Wicklow, S. of Dublin; anglic. Luggelaw + Loch Lachan (lokh lokhen) (gael) - Duck Lake, Co. Antrim; anglic. Loughloughan.
gunne - obs. form of gun + Michael Gunn managed Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
bedst (Danish) - best
massage - to apply massage to; to treat by means of massage
sausepander (Danish) - saucepan + suspender.
mussel - a bivalve mollusc belonging to either of the two families Mytilacea (Sea Mussels) and Unionacea (Fresh-water Mussels) + deltoid muscle - (Anat.): the large muscle of triangular shape which forms the prominence of the shoulder; it serves to raise the arm and draw it from the body.
kitchen + Kisschen (ger) - little pillow + -chen (ger) - (diminutive).
Iron Duke - a nickname of Wellington
rollingpin - a roller or cylinder of wood, glass, or other material, for rolling out dough or paste to the required thickness for pie-crusts, etc.
Gansefett (ger) - goose fat
dodo - an extinct bird, Didus ineptus, belonging to the order Columbidæ, formerly inhabiting the island of Mauritius; it had a massive clumsy body, and small wings of no use for flight; transf. and fig., an old-fashioned, stupid, inactive, or unenlightened person + (stuttering).
doughty - able, capable, worthy, virtuous
braise - to stew in a tightly-closed pan (properly with a charcoal fire above and below), the meat being surrounded with slices of bacon, herbs, etc.
toast - As a substance (without a or pl.): Bread so browned by fire, electric heat, etc.
kettledrum - a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it (PICTURE) + kiddle - a dam, weir, or barrier in a river, having an opening in it fitted with nets or other appliances for catching fish.
steem - obs. form of steam (to emit, send out in the form of vapour)
rattle - Of things: To give out a rapid succession of short sharp sounds, usually in consequence of rapid agitation and of striking against each other or against some hard dry body.
roast - a piece of roast meat, or anything that is roasted for food + (coffeebeans).
Mocha (coffee)
awe - to inspire with dread, strike fear into, terrify, daunt
scourge - to beat with a scourge; to whip severely, flog + scorch - to burn superficially.
abram = auburn - moderate brown + abram (Slang) - a malingerer; also, naked.
brack - an Irish cake or loaf containing seeds or fruit + bairghean breac (boryen brak) (gael) - speckled cake: Halloween currant cake; anglic. barmbrack + back
Obadiah - servant in Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy + Book of Obadiah.
Noa (l) - Noah + patriarch's (pastry) nose.
flower bouquet + flour bucket.
strainger = stranger (obs.)
squeezer - a squeezing pressure + if the stranger seen you giving squeezes.
skillet - a frying pan
queen of the heart
rest + reine (French) - queen + reignest alone.
lapper - one who laps, or takes up (liquid) with the tongue
libber - a gelder + Leber (ger) - liver + (tongue and lips glued shut).
La Goulue - 1890s Moulin Rouge star painted by Toulouse-Lautrec. She was given the nickname "La Goulue" (The Glutton) by journalist Gabriel Astruc because she would take customers’ glasses and quickly drink the contents, whatever it may be (PICTURE)
sizzle - to make a kind of hissing sound, esp. in the process of frying, roasting, or burning + sit
pitcher - repr. a vulgar or colloq. pronunciation of picture
Wexford - County, and county town, Leinster province, Ireland. It has no known connection with Toulouse-Lautrec.
atelier - a workshop; an artist's or sculptor's studio
lanner - a species of falcon, found in countries bordering on the Mediterranean, Falco lanarius or F. feldeggi + Katti Lanner - famous 19th century Austrian-British ballet dancer and choreographer (Ulysses.15.4044: 'The Katty Lanner step').
refined - characterized or distinguished by the possession of refinement in manners, action, or feeling + Ulysses.10.380: 'poster of Marie Kendall, charming soubrette'.
soubrette - Theat. A maid-servant or lady's maid as a character in a play or opera, usually one of a pert, coquettish, or intriguing character; an actress or singer taking such a part. In extended use, a woman playing a role or roles in light entertainment, e.g. on television or at a seaside variety show, with implications of pertness, coquetry, intrigue, etc.
bust - the bosom (esp. of a woman)
à la broche (fr) - cooked on a skewer over a flame
bedpan - a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination
matelote - [Fr., f. matelot sailor.] a dish of fish served in a sauce of wine, onions and other seasoning, such as mushrooms, oysters, etc.; also, a dish of other viands similarly dressed.
jiggety - characterized by jiggeting, having a jerky unsteady movement + gigot sleeve or leg of mutton sleeve - a sleeve that is extremely wide over the upper arm and narrow from the elbow to the wrist.
Toulon - city in France
Toulouse - city in France + Toulouse-Lautrec.
whisk - to move with a light rapid sweeping motion; to make a single sudden movement of this kind, to rush or dart nimbly + Tip (motif).
shim - a faint or transient appearance, a glimpse + shin - the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
ham - the back of the thigh; the thigh and buttock collectively; Usually in pl.
jupon (fr) - petticoat + dupeta (Serbian) - arses + Shem, Ham and Japhet (*VYC*)
gause - obs. form of gauze (a very thin, transparent fabric of silk, linen, or cotton) + Goose, Mother - wrote all the nursery rhymes + gauze by the meter.
cotch - dial. f. catch
believe + ballet + balayer (fr) - to sweep.
frullini (it) - whisks + frula (Serbian) - pipe, flute.
griddle - a circular iron plate upon which cakes are baked; also used for cooking grills, etc.
la sauterelle (fr) - the grasshopper + Cinderella (pantomime).
Puss-in-Boots - clever cat in fairy tale and pantomime
hobnob - to rub elbows with
highty tighty - petulant, huffy, supercilious; an ejaculation expressing contemptuous surprise or anger + Highty, Tighty, Paradighty (nursery rhyme).
quamquam (l) - although
cancan - a kind of dance made popular at the public balls in Paris, with extravagant and indecent gestures
potapos (gr) - whence?
Pfortner (ger) - porter, turnkey + Finnegan's Wake, chorus: 'Dance to your partner... Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake'.
fuddling - that fuddles, tippling
sponsor - one who pays, or contributes towards, the cost of a broadcast programme or other spectacle, spec. in return for commercial advertisement + FDV: — That's enough. I want to hear the old lad kithogue himself. Hey, there, Bohermore! Are you old Preadamite? Kithogue? + kithogue (Irish slang) - Left-handed or awkward person.
close down - an act of closing down; spec. the finishing of radio or television broadcasting at the end of a day
finick - 'to execute work in a fastidious manner, wasting time over unnecessary details'
fiddle with - to work aimlessly, fruitlessly or pointlessly
faddle - nonsense, foolishness; usually fiddle-faddle
ballot - a method of drawing lots by taking out small balls, etc., from a box
guvnor - vulgar or colloq. pronunciations of governor
sylph - one of a race of beings or spirits supposed to inhabit the air (orig. in the system of Paracelsus)
salamander - a spirit supposed to live in fire
troll - In Scandinavian mythology, One of a race of supernatural beings formerly conceived as giants, now, in Denmark and Sweden, as dwarfs or imps, supposed to inhabit caves or subterranean dwellings.
triton - one of a race of inferior sea-deities, or imaginary sea-monsters, of semi-human form
top - to finish up or off, wind up, conclude (with something)
drive - any type of persistent behaviour or disposition that would lead to the attainment of a certain goal
tip - to empty out (a wagon, cart, truck, or the like, or its contents) by tilting it up; to drink off, 'toss off'
tap - a cylindrical stick, long peg, or stopper, for closing and opening a hole bored in a vessel; hence, a hollow or tubular plug through which liquid may be drawn, having some device for shutting off or governing the flow; the liquor drawn from a particular tap + {override *K*'s speech and reach the tap or source, *E*}.
Confiteor: 'in thought, word and deed'
Mac Cumhail (mok kul) (gael) - son of Cumhal; patronymic of Fionn
prima - 'first' + primipatriarches (l) - first patriarh, first father.
archsee - an archbishop's see
terre (fr) - earth, ground, land + Tartarus.
stutterer - one who stutters
Jacob (*C*)
Johann (*V*)
dahet - 'misfortune, mischief, evil, curse' (used only in imprecations) + date.
jouster - one who jousts or fights on horseback with a spear, in battle or (esp. in later use) in tournament + justice + Marcel Jousse studied the language of gesture.
governor general - a governor who has under him deputy- or lieutenant-governors (Timothy M. Healy became one in 1922) + hovno (Czech) - shit + (notebook 1923): 'the governor (father) Si D, LB, TMH'.