The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea

3.12	creel cart] a high-sided cart used for heavy loads.
3.16	himself] (i.e., the master of the house.)
4.28	peeler] policeman.
6.11	Stooks of the Dead Women] geographical landmark; seashore rocks resembling stooks, or conically clustered drying sheaves of oats.
6.20	tinkers] (reputed as vagrants and thieves.)
7.27	penny pot-boy] waiter in a cheap tavern.
8.26	bona fide] (i.e., a bona fide traveller, hence exempt from restrictions on when a tavern can dispense liquor.)
11.16	riz the loy] raised the spade.
12.5	poteen] (illicit whiskey.)
12.7	pitchpike] pitchfork.
12.26	droughty] thirsty.
14.20	scribes] narrow strips.
14.24	streeleen] chatter.
16.7	banbhs] piglets.
16.10	in it] (i.e., living there.)
18.15	cuteness] acuteness, wisdom.
23.2	cnuceen] hillock.
27.28	frish-frash] froth.
29.17	wattle] rod, stick, withe.
29.21	mitch off] sneak away.
30.3	thraneen] tiny thread.
30. 5	cleeve] basket.

31.36	turbary] turf-cutting rights.
33.9	streeler] punk.
33.9	gob] visage (literally, mouth).
34.10	felts] fieldfares.
35.18	Playboy] literally, champion (used ironically in this context).
36.28	curragh] coracle.
37.25	boreen] lane.
39.8	gaffer] boy.
39.11	trick-o’-the-loop] (a betting game.)
39.12	cockshot-man] (person at whom sticks were thrown for amusement.)
41.34	skelping] slapping.
42.17	winkered] (i.e., wearing blinkers. )
42.33	hop’orth] half-penny’s worth (of betting money).
44.16	butt of my lug] (i.e., my earlobe.)
44.22	parlatic] paralytic.
49. 1	gallous] gallows (i.e., great, fine).
52. 5	Slate] thrash.
52.13	old hen] influenza.
52.32	pandied] beaten.

61.16	some time herself] (i.e., when Maurya.)
64. 1	cock] heap.
70.19	Samhain] All Saint’s Day (November 1st).

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