call off - to cancel (an engagement, etc.), draw back from (an undertaking)

noch (Russian) - night + goodnight, everybody.

merry Christmass

appreciate - to esteem adequately or highly; to recognize as valuable or excellent; to find worth or excellence in

custom - Law. An established usage which by long continuance has acquired the force of a law or right, esp. the established usage of a particular locality, trade, society, or the like.

Tokyo - Capital city of Japan + kyotaku (Japanese) - dwelling-house + tak (Danish) - thank you + tak (Polish) - so; yes.

tick-tack, tick-tock - an imitation of a reduplicated or alternating ticking sound, esp. that made by a clock + tiktak (Dutch) - tick tock (sound of clock or heart).

kak (Dutch) - shit

abuzz - in a buzz; filled with buzzing + buzz - to make the humming sibilant sound characteristic of bees and other insects + (notebook 1930): 'buzz waterfall wind' (symptoms of hearing disorders).

placate - to render friendly or favourable (one who is hostile); to pacify, conciliate + (notebook 1930): 'paracusis duplicata' → paracusis duplicata: auditory condition in which one sound is heard as two.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching (song) + (notebook 1930): 'umidità' (dampness in Italian).

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP. - Familiarly known as the BBC

announcer - one who announces, tells news, or gives notice; Broadcasting. The person who announces the subjects of a programme or the items of current news, etc.

ernst (ger) - earnest, serious + Morris Ernst - the American lawyer who secured the legal entrance of Joyce's Ulysses to the United States.

morsom (Dutch) - amusing

entertainment + interment - burrying + tart.

colt's tooth - fig. Youthful tastes or desires; inclination to wantonness + have a colt's tooth (Slang) - Of an old man: to marry or keep a young girl + God's truth!

answer + Tandsel (notebook 1930) → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 110n: (quoting Baden's History of Norway) 'It appears to have been a solemn occasion when the child received its first tooth, at which time the friends and relations presented it with a gift called Tandsel' (Danish tand: tooth).

protest - to declare or state formally or solemnly (something about which a doubt is stated or implied); to affirm, asseverate, or assert in formal or solemn terms.

literally - With reference to a report, translation, etc.: In the very words, word for word + Luttrell, Henry (1655-1717) - betrayed Limerick to De Ginkell, was murdered while riding in a sedan chair through Dublin.  

teaspoonful - as much as a tea-spoon will hold + (notebook 1924): 'teaspoonful of evidence'.

bottom line - orig. U.S., the last line of a profit-and-loss account, showing the final profit (or loss); also loosely, the net profit; fig., the final analysis or determining factor; the point, the crux of the argument + Horatio Bottomley - blackmailer and politician [.18]

baba (French Slang) - buttocks + baba (Serbian) - grandmother + Bad (ger) - bath + SDV: There is not a teaspoonful teaspoonspill of evidence to my bad and I can humbly protest against everything to the higher highest personage at this moment holding down the throne. As a matter of fact I undertake to discontinue the practice. I have had my lesson.

you shall see (Joyce's note) → Gwynn: Ulster 45: 'but full north, suddenly, held in the curve between two of these little summits, you catch sight of the Atlantic blue... When the herring are in, you shall see it dotted over with smacks and yawls'.

Keemun - the name of a district in China used to describe a black tea grown there

Lapsang Souchong - a variety of Souchong China tea with a smoky flavour

pickings - something that is picked; gleanings of fruit, remaining scraps of food, or portions of anything worth picking up or appropriating

contango - in Stock Exchange, money paid to postpone completion of bargain, percentage paid by stock buyer to seller to delay transfer + tango (l) - I touch + I contend I can + "registered as Tangos, Limited, for the sale of certain proprietary articles." [574.05-.06]

duds (Slang) - clothes + (stuttering).

39 Articles (Church of England)

clothing + (notebook 1924): 'take off yr coat'.

than those in heaven (Joyce's note) → Freeman's Journal 11 Feb 1924, 7/3: 'Waterford Murder': (the statement of an accused in a murder trial) 'I had no more to do with it than those in heaven'.

provost - to hand over to the provost-marshal to be dealt with summarily and (formerly) to receive corporal punishment; a high-ranking university administrator + The Provost - military prison, Dublin + prove + (notebook 1930): 'lord provost' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 941b: 'The town council... consists of fifty members, a lord provost'.

gramercy - exp. of gratitude or surprise; thanks + mercy + Joyce's note: 'Gramercy Park' → Gramercy Park, New York City.

justness - the quality or fact of being morally right or equitable; righteousness + justice

now, I, Moremon (notebook 1930) → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 372: (of Mormonism) 'the Words of Mormon begins: "And now, I, Mormon, being about to deliver up the record which I have been making, into the hands of my son, Moroni"' + (notebook 1930): 'Moreman' (the entry is both cancelled and crayoned) → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 372: (of Joseph Smith's explanation of the word Mormon) 'since "mo" is the Egyptian word for good, by a simple addition of "more" or "mor," the contraction, we get the word "Mormon," which literally means "more good"'. 

staunch - Of a person: Standing firm and true to one's principles or purpose + a Dublin deed of 1434: 'said masters shall keep said houses stiff and staunch for ever'.

advice - opinion given or offered as to action; counsel. spec. medical or legal counsel

Misr (Arabic) - Egypt + "or them four hoarsemen on their apolkaloops, Norreys, Soothbys, Yates and Welks" [557.01-02]

caveat - Law. A process in court (originally in ecclesiastical courts) to suspend proceedings; a notice given by some party to the proper officer not to take a certain step until the party giving the notice has been heard in opposition; transf. A warning, admonition, caution.

Bottomley [.10] + X, Y, W.

Keyser's Lane in medieval Dublin, vulgarly named Kiss-arse Lane

blueeyed - having a blue eye or eyes; fig. Innocent, ingenuous + "Sackerson's most distinctive features are his black beard and blond hair, a striking combination which may chime with HCE's own features of dark pubic bush and white head. The hair - 'butterblond', it is called at 429.18 - is, along with his blue eyes (534.18) a sign of his Scandinavian origins, one of many points of similarity with HCE." (John Gordon: Finnegans Wake: a plot summary).

Lane-Joynt, William - Lord-Mayor of Dublin in 1867 + angel + lean-jointed.

ware = wear (obs.) + Waring Street, Belfast.

libel suit + below the belt (phrase).

knockknee - pl. Knees that knock together in walking from inward curvature of the legs + Knockbreckan Reservoir - the Belfast water supply + Cnoc Breac (knuk brak) (gael) - Speckled Hill; widespread place-name; anglic. Knockbreck.

BULL RING - An iron ring in a wall on Cornmarket to which bulls for baiting were tied in the l6th-l7th centuries + bullring - arena where bullfighting is performed + Beal Feirste (bel ferishti) (gael) - Sandbank River-mouth; N.E. city; anglic. Belfast + run rings round - be markedly superior to.

Falls Road - Road in the Protestant working class district of Belfast + rude accent + Red Hand of Ulster.

canvasser - a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes; someone who conducts surveys of public opinion + (Bloom was canvasser in Ulysses).

night letter - a telegram sent at night + noche (sp) - night + noce (fr) - wedding, marriage + lettres (fr) - letters + Saunders's News-Letter - Dublin journal, 1777-1802.

Post Office Directory (Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin) + Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-49) - American writer, "The Raven" and "The Purloined Letter" are mentioned in FW (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake).

business + piss.

begrudge - to envy (someone) the possession or enjoyment of (something) ["she begrudged Martin his affluence"]

Belgravia - a fashionable residential district in London, south of Knightsbridge [(notebook 1930): 'Belgravia' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 939c: '"Mayfair," north of Piccadilly, and "Belgravia," south of Knightsbridge, are common though unofficial names for the richest residential districts'] + Belgrade - capital of Serbia + Limerick: "There was a young man from Belgravia / Who didn't believe in our Saviour. / He walked down the Strand / With his balls in his hand / And was fined for indecent behaviour."  

doth - 3d. sing of do

lease - a contract for conveying real estate in return for rent + believe

paviour - one who paves or lays pavements + payor - a party that pays + saviour - he who saves mankind from sin and its consequences: as a title of God, and esp. of Christ (in the latter application often Our Saviour) + Pavier, Thomas - printer who in 1619 attempted to put out a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays.  

nonesuch - a person who has no equal; one to whom no other can be compared; a paragon + NONESUCH - Palace of Henry VIII, given as a gift by Charles II to his mistress Barbara Viliems, Duchess of Cleveland, who razed it (1670). She was also promised Phoenix Park in Dublin, but the transaction was not completed. 

personage - a person (man or woman) of high rank, distinction, consideration, or importance

hold down - to remain in (a position or situation); to continue to occupy (a place or post) or succeed in discharging the duties of (one's employment)

tabernacle - a temporary dwelling, typically of light construction; a tent used as a sanctuary for the Ark of the Covenant by the Israelites + Werner: Brigham Young 286: 'A large part of the Mormon celestial world is inhabited by spirits, who go about... searching for tabernacles... or earthly bodies' (hence, the need for extensive reproduction and polygamy).

celluloid - a motion picture film

Haben Sie so eines erlebt? (ger) - Have you experienced one like that? + beleven (Dutch) - to experience + must be seen to be believed (phrase) + sight for sore eyes - a welcome visitor, someone you are glad to see.

caca (it) - shit + (stuttering).

North Strand Road, Dublin

Thom's Dublin Directory - for which Bloom once canvassed. It is to Ulysses and FW as the Domesday Book is to Norman England. Sometimes "Thom" is Thomas (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake).

snake eyes - double one in dice

suffocated + Sofia, Bulgaria.

Green - Lord-Mayor of Dublin + étrangler un perroquet (French Slang) - to drink absinthe (literally 'strangle a parrot'; from its green colour).

protest - to declare or state formally or solemnly (something about which a doubt is stated or implied); to affirm, asseverate, or assert in formal or solemn terms + (HCE is accusing cad of being).

halfwife + wholewife.

Dublin + double n's.

toppling + tipple - to sell (ale or other strong drink) by retail; to drink of intoxicating liquor: in earlier use, to drink freely or hard.

exit + ix (ger) - the letter X + Isis.

Keshan - Lord Mayor of Dublin + cautioned. 

Sherlock - a person who investigates mysteries or shows great perceptiveness; a private detective + Lorcan Sherlock - Lord Mayors of Dublin.

lork - obs. form of lurk + looking

Baltes spaniere (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 936a: 'a bronze cast of the famous group of J. P. Molin (1859), the Bältespännare (belt-bucklers), representing an early form of duel in Scandinavia, in which the combatants were bound together by their belts'.

curt - short in linear dimension; shortened + (notebook 1930): 'get your hair cut'.

fulsomeness - the quality of being offensive to good taste (esp. by over-adulation or the like); Also, coarseness, obscenity (obs.)

shamus - a police officer, a private detective + Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde, which contain automatic and ouija board scripts produced in 1923 by Mrs Travers Smith and 'Mr V'. Wilde is here described as 'the communicator' as distinct from 'the control,' another spirit, who facilitated the transmission. Wilde beseeches his medium: 'Pity Oscar Wilde - one who in the world was a king of life... dear lady... Oscar is speaking again... I am infinitely amused by the remarks you all make... Being dead is the most boring experience in life.' Asked for his views on Ulysses, Wilde exclaims 'Shame upon Joyce, shame on his work, shame on his lying soul!' This also recalls a speech made in 1530 by Sir William Skeffington, then Lord Deputy of Dublin, who called his enemies 'outcast mastives, littered in currish blood (mentioned in Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh: A History of the City of Dublin).'

Atkins = Tommy Atkins - familiar form of Thomas Atkins, as a name for the typical private soldier in the British army + cum (Slang) - semen.

lul (Dutch) - penis + lula (Serbian) - pipe (i.e. Cad with a pipe) + (stuttering).

outcast - cast out from home and friends; hence, forsaken, forlorn, homeless and neglected

mastiff - a large, powerful dog with a large head, drooping ears and pendulous lips, valuable as a watch-dog

littered - filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish

currish - resembling a cur; fig. Like a cur in nature; snarling, quarrelsome; mean-spirited, base, ignoble + Carr, Henry - employed by the British consulate in Zurich. Joyce and he quarreled about the price of a pair of pants, and Carr called Joyce a cad. Two lawsuits followed. 

til (Danish) - to + Çà ira (song): 'les aristocrates à la lanterne'.

Hanging Tower was on Dublin city walls by Back Lane

steck = steek - to shut up, enclose, imprison (a person in a place) + stick + steck (ger) - to put, to stick.

javelin - a light spear thrown with the hand with or without the help of a thong

avowtrie (Obsolete) = avoutry (Archaic) - adultery

instanter (l) - urgently + Staunton - Lord Mayor of Dublin.

flap - to beat the wings, to make movements like the beating of wings

ladybird + ladybirds (Slang) - lewd women + song: The Night before Larry Was Stretched (i.e. hanged).

dangle - to hang from the gallows, to be hanged

highflier - one who flies high; one who is ortodox or extreme in doctrine + (notebook 1930): 'highfliers' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. V: 'for the punishment of poverty... the culprit... was hoisted by the waistband, and kept dangling and sprawling between heaven and earth for an hour or two... the little governor chuckled at beholding caitiff vagrants and sturdy beggars thus swinging by the crupper, and cutting antic gambols in the air... he called them... his high-fliers'.

jiggety - having a jerky unsteady movement

jig - to move up and down or to and fro with a rapid jerky motion