die - Used hyperbolically to indicate extreme feelings of amusement, etc.
old chap* - Used as an expression of familiarity; a person’s father esp. when old.
to go phut* - to come to a sudden end; to break down, cease to function
to watch it* - to be careful
dabble - to wet by splashing; to play about in shallow water; to employ oneself in a dilettante way in (any business or pursuit) without going deeply or seriously into it.
to roll up one’s sleeves* - to prepare for action
to loosen (a person's) tongue* - to make him speak
butt - trans. To strike, esp. with the head or horns; I.8 must commence in the Wicklow Mountains, for the river is narrow enough for the washerwomen's heads to collide as they bend to immerse HCE's shirt. McHugh, Roland / The sigla of Finnegans wake
hike - to raise or toss with the horns; a long walk
threed - pierce, penetrate three; tried
make out - to succeed in accomplishing; to effect, achieve; to establish by evidence, argument, or investigation, to prove; to interpret for oneself; to decipher, succeed in reading.
fiendish - characteristic of a fiend; superhumanly cruel and malignant Phoenix
reppe = repe - to touch; rep - a man (or woman) of loose character.
steep - to soak in water or other liquid (for the purpose of softening or cleansing).
stupe - to moisten (lint, tow, etc.) in some hot liquid so as to form a stupe (a piece of tow, flannel, etc., wrung out of hot liquor and medicated, for fomenting a wound or ailing part).
wik = wick week
to know by heart - to have in the memory, to know by rote
soil* - to make foul or dirty, esp. on the surface
dud - of little or no worth, bad, worn out, useless
scorch - to burn superficially
starve - to die of hunger, to perish or be in process of perishing from lack or insufficiency of food; to suffer extremely.
famine - want of food, hunger; hence, starvation
wallop - to beat soundly, belabour, thrash
battle - to beat (clothes) with a wooden beetle during the process of washing, or in order to smooth them after they are dried.
rusty* - stiff; having the colour of rust, of a (disagreeable) light reddish brown.
mouldy* - covered with mould; decaying or decayed; of the nature of mould or fine soil.
tail - sexual intercourse; end, conclusion
Sendai - city in Japan
under lock and key* - in prison; Lough Neagh - lake in east-central Northern Ireland; loch - a lake.
prier - a close inquirer, an inquisitive person; nisi prius (l) - unless before: legal warrant to bring a cause to trial at central court unless before that date it shall have been tried locally.
versus (l) - turned toward, facing
distil - to subject to the process of distillation
exploit - an act or deed; a feat, an achievement displaying a brilliant degree of bravery or skill.
time will tell; till - attract, entice; prepare, care for.
time and tide wait for no man; temp - temperature, tempo; hist - to be silent; sh!
neap - Of tides: To become lower, to tend towards the neap reap
Rappen (ger) - black horse; Swiss cent
mixed marriage* - a marriage between persons of different races or religions; minxi (l) - I have urinated.
loof - the palm of the hand love