slip - to move quickly and softly, without attracting notice
SALLYNOGGIN - Residental area just South of Dun Laoghaire and West of Dalkey; it is nowhere near the Liffey River + SDV: ducking under bridges, rapidshooting round the corners, by the hills of Tallaght & the Pool of the phooka & [places called] Blessington & Sallynoggin,
as happy as the day is long - extremely happy
babble - to utter inarticulate or indistinct sounds, transf. of streams, brooks, etc. [Joyce's note: 'babbling']
bubble - to form bubbles (as a running stream); to emit the sounds due to the formation and bursting of bubbles
chatter - Of human beings: To talk rapidly, incessantly, and with more sound than sense.
deluthering (Anglo-Irish) - deluding, deceiving in a fawning manner
sloothering - cajoling, wheedling
slide - the act of sliding or gliding
giddy - causing or apt to produce dizziness or swimming in the head, rendering dizzy
gaddy - given to gadding or roving about + SDV: babbling, bubbling, chattering to herself, gidgaddy giddygaddy grandmamma, gossipaceous, Anna Livia.
gossipaceous (notebook 1924) → Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 125 (sec. 123): 'Adjectives are formed... in -aceous: gossipaceous'.
Amnis Livia (l) - the River Liffey
Luke 11:14: (Jesus) 'was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake'.
quick + quoi (fr) - what + quack (ducks).