Jackadandy - a little pert or conceited fellow; a contemptuous name for a beau, fop, dandy + (notebook 1930): 'dandelions' → 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 dandelions' [534.36]
phiz - face, countenance + Wad Fez river, Morocco + white face + white fez (White hat motif) + (notebook 1930): 'let me never see your face again' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VI, ch. V: (quoting Peter Stuyvesant, in dismissing the disgraced general Van Poffenburgh) 'In the meantime, let me never see your face again, for I have a horrible antipathy to the countenances of unfortunate great men like yourself'.
Hungary + Bartholomew Vanhomrigh - father of Swift's Vanessa and Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Shusan of Persia - capital of Persian king Ahasuerus (Hebrew Parras: Persia) + Man of Sorrows.
ursprünglich (ger) - original
gesture + Mary Colum says: Abbe Jousse was lecturing in Paris. He was a noted propounder of a theory that Joyce gave adherence to, that language had its origin in gesture... Joyce invited me to go with him to a lecture... in a small hail... It took the form of a little play based on the Gospels. Around the lecturer was a group of girls who addressed him as "Rabbi Jesus." The words spoken-one of the parables... were... in Aramaic, and what was shown was that the word was shaped by the gesture (Our Friend James Joyce, 130-131).
imitate + immitis (l) - harsh + initiate.
urs = ours (obs.) + us.
lot - that which is assigned by lot to a person as his share or portion in an inheritance, or in a distribution of property; fig. That which is given to a person by fate or divine providence; esp. one's destiny, fortune, or 'portion' in this life; Phr. 'to fall to one's lot'.
sexcentenary - the six-hundredth anniversary (of an event) + centaur.
whereby - near which, whereupon + when by.
Valhalla + Gates of Hell (Jigoku Mon) - a Japanese classic + Porte de Hal, Brussels.
Wodin Man (notebook 1930) → Peter: Dublin Fragments, Social and Historic 53: (of 18th century Dublin) 'Have Dublin children ever heard of the Wooden Man who stood in Essex Street in these olden times? He was made of oak, and one made a bitter complaint (in print) that passers-by sometimes took a piece off his back to light their fires' + Odin = Wotan.
hastened + hest (Danish) - horse + Hesten - statue in Copenhagen.
freehold - permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will + freely hold it + (notebook 1930): 'freeholded' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 162: 'Ground rents are practically unknown in York, the land being almost without exception freehold'.
op - ME. variant of up
mam - a childish (formerly also a familiar or vulgar) word for mother
maman (fr) - mother
majuscule - Printing. A large or capital letter + majusculus (l) - somewhat larger; somewhat great.
magnus (l) - big, great
lease Kneys & leasekeys (notebooks 1930) + lease - a contract for conveying real estate in return for rent + leastways.
TARA - Low hill 6 miles South-East of Navan, County Meath. The legendary royal seat of ancient Ireland, actually an important religious center connected with worship of Maeb (Queen Mab, Maeve), seat of priest-kings who were High Kings of Meath + nova terra (l) - new earth.
our most noble (notebook 1930) → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 962: 'About this time, Edgar, king of England, is said to have subdued part of Ireland, and particularly the most noble city of Dublin'.
horsebacked + Ross (ger) - steed + Ross - Lord Mayor of Dublin.
pricelist - a list of the prices of commodities offered for sale + priceless.
charger - a horse ridden in charging the enemy
Pferd (ger) - horse + Ferdinand
alabaster - like alabaster, in whiteness, smoothness, etc.
you would not + (notebook 1930): 'Yedo' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1047d: (of Tokyo) 'formerly called Yedo'.
find + Joyce's note (notebook 1930): 'Horse in fanlight' + The Midnight Son (song): 'The Midnight Son, the Midnight Son, You needn't go trotting to Norway, You'll find him in every doorway Down the strand, for that's the land Of the Midnight Son' (Edwardian music hall song).
doorway - the opening or passage which a door serves to close or open
album's greetings
congratulations + Can Grande, to whom Dante reputedly addressed a letter dealing with the four levels of the Comedy.
excellency + Eccles Street - Bloom's home address in Ulysses + Sir John Eccles - Lord Mayor of Dublin.
whoso - whoever, whosoever + See Saw, Margery Daw (nursery rhyme).
jackass - a male ass, a he-ass; Applied opprobriously to a stupid or foolish person + Jacquerie (French) - rioting peasants (especially 14th century) + Jack the Ripper.
handgrip - grasp, seize with the hand; 'to come to handgrips', to come to close combat. So 'to be at or in handgrips' + att angripa (Swedish) - to attack.
makkers (Dutch) - friends, comrades
ginder (Dutch) - over there, yonder + dødmager ganger (Danish) - death-lean steed.
wij zijn met ons vieren (Dutch) - there are four of us (literally 'we are with us four')
adversarial - characterized by adversary or combative behaviour; opposed, hostile + I Peter 5:8: 'your adversary the devil' + adversaria - a commonplace book.
spiking - presenting the appearance of spikes; suddenly rising and falling + SPUYTEN DUYVIL - The channel connecting the Harlem and Hudson Rivers at the North end of Manhattan, New York City.
devil + duivel (Dutch) - devil + (notebook 1930): 'spiking devil' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. II: 'As to the honest burghers of Communipaw... I am even told that many among them do verily believe that Holland, of which they have heard so much from tradition, is situated somewhere on Long Island; that Spiking-devil and the Narrows are the two ends of the world; that the country is still under the dominion of their High Mightinesses, and that the city of New York still goes by the name of Nieuw Amsterdam'.
Land's End, Cornwall + London.
ulv (Danish) - wolf
scargore (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 934c: 'The coast is here thickly fringed with islands (the skärgård)'.
STOCKHOLM - Seaport city, capital of Sweden. It is separated from the Baltic by a wilderness of isles collectively called the skargârd (skerries). The main quay for oceangoing ships in the Staden, or old city, is called the Skeppsbro + (notebook 1930): 'skeepsbro' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935b: 'the broad shipping quay (Skeppsbro)'.
meisie - girl; young lady or woman + meisjes (Dutch) - girls.
taart = tart (obs.) - a female of immoral character; Also loosely as a term of abuse (slang.) + zulk een taart (Dutch) - such a cake, such a tart + silken tarts.
sicker - to assure (a person) of safety, to assure (one) of a fact + Henrik Ibsen: Til min Ven Revolutions-Taleren: 'De siger, jeg er bleven "konservativ"' (Norwegian): 'They say I'm becoming "conservative"'.
shuck - pl. as an interj. of contempt or indifference + (notebook 1922-23): 'shucks! (rot)'.
rathouse - Austral. and N.Z. slang: a lunatic asylum + Rathaus (ger) - city hall + Joyce's note: 'RATHOUSE' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the old Rathaus'.
business + Henrik Ibsen: Bygmester Solness (The Master Builder).
basement basemeant (notebook 1930)
history + hystera (gr) - womb.
Ibs(c)ene, Ibs(c)enity - nonce-wds. (with play on obscene, obscenity) + Ibsenist, Ibsenite - an admirer or imitator of Ibsen.
Nansen - Norwegian explorer + obscenest nonsense.
noksagt (Danish) - enough said + Nagasaki, Japan.
Paul/Peter (motif)
broker - 'one employed as a middleman to transact business or negotiate bargains between different merchants or individuals' + Joyce's note: 'broken-hearted / villain'
shogun - the hereditary commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, until 1867 the virtual ruler of Japan + (notebook 1930): 'shogun' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1048b: 'the castle of Yedo, formerly the residence of the shōguns' (de-facto rulers of Japan until 1868) + siogan (shugan) (gael) - ant.
muck - dirt, filth + muc (muk) - pig, swine + swinish - hoggish, piggish; Of actions, etc.: Characteristic of or befitting a swine; coarse, degraded, beastly + Mac Suibhne (mok swini) (gael) - son of Suibhne ("well-going"); anglic. MacSweeney, MacSwiney. etc.
porcus (l) - pig + (notebook 1930): 'porcupig' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. IX: (quoting the Ballad of Dragon of Wantley about General Van Poffenburgh) 'Had you but seen him in this dress, How fierce he looked and how big, You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig'.
draff - refuse, dregs, lees; wash or swill given to swine + draff is sufficient for pigs (Welsh proverb).
enough + Enoch - first city, built by Cain (Genesis 4:17).
you + yü (Chinese) - fish.
whitehead - a name for various species of birds having the head (wholly or partly) white + WHITEHEAD - Seaside resort in County Antrim, North side of Belfast Lough + hed (Danish) - hot.
misspelt + Mespil Road, Dublin.
fish is an ancient symbol of Christ (from Greek acronym 'Iessous CHristos THeou hYios Soter' and Greek ichthys: fish) + So pass the fish for Christ sake, Amen (motif).
White Head, White Hat - Finn MacCool is often said to mean "white head" on "white hat"; "head" identifies him with "Howth", which is Danish "head" + Travers Smith: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde 32: 'Oscar Wilde is speaking'.
ope - open (arch.)
Eustachian tube - a canal leading from the upper part of the pharynx to the cavity of the tympanum, which it appears to supply with air + Robert Eustace - sheriff of Dublin, 1608-9.
mummery - a performance of mummers; ridiculous ceremonial or 'play-acting' + memories
goby - to leave; to go past, pass + goodbye.
world + Wilde.
O.W. - Old Wellingtonian + Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (Latin: Out of the Depths) + Travers Smith: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde 5: 'Pity Oscar Wilde' .
profund - obs. form of profound + profundus (l) - deep, vast, profound + If life imitated art, as Wilde insisted in his essay "The Decay of Lying" (1889), he was himself approximating the pattern in his reckless pursuit of pleasure. In addition, his close friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he had met in 1891, infuriated the Marquess of Queensberry, Douglas' father. Accused, finally, by the marquess of being a sodomite, Wilde, urged by Douglas, sued for criminal libel. Wilde's case collapsed, however, when the evidence went against him, and he dropped the suit. Urged to flee to France by his friends, Wilde refused, unable to believe that his world was at an end. He was arrested and ordered to stand trial. Wilde testified brilliantly, but the jury failed to reach a verdict. In the retrial he was found guilty and sentenced, in May 1895, to two years at hard labour. Most of his sentence was served at Reading Gaol, where he wrote a long letter to Douglas (published in 1905 in a drastically cut version as De Profundis) filled with recriminations against the younger man for encouraging him in dissipation and distracting him from his work.
snob - to sob + snubbing.
Wilde's putative age at the time of his sentencing in 1895: thirty-nine years old
hoar - to become hoary or grey-haired
snowdrift - a heap or mass of snow driven together, or piled up, by the action of the wind
deff - obs. form of deaf + Psalms 58:4: 'the deaf adder'.
adder - a small venomous serpent or snake + deaf adder - a local name in England for the slow-worm or blind-worm, in U.S. for certain snakes supposed to be venomous + deaf as an adder (phrase).
Genesis 3:12: 'she gave me of the tree, and I did eat'
eat - that which is eaten, food + *IJ* and *VYC*.
friends + friandise (fr) - delicacy, titbit.
celebrity - a person of celebrity; a celebrated person + celebrrimus (l) - most honored, most celebrated.
boom (Dutch) - tree
childer - obs. and dial. pl. of child + Hugh Culling Eardly (H.C.E) Childers - M.P. for Pontefract and member of cabinet in late 19th century, known to friends and rivals as Here Comes Everybody Childers.
mudder - a horse which runs well on a wet or muddy racecourse; transf., a sportsman or team similarly proficient + mudder (Dublin Pronunciation) - mother.
communicator - one who or that which communicates + Sir Oliver Lodge: Raymond (in which appear 'a colonel' (p.255), 'the Communicator' (p.360), and a medium called Miss Alta Piper and referred to as 'A.L.P.')
disincarnate - to divest of flesh or a material body: the opposite of 'incarnate'