1.76b: humphing his share of the showthers is senken on him he's such a grandfallar...
1.76c: And aither he cursed and recursed and was everseen doing what your fourfootlers saw...
1.76d: Though Eset fibble it to the zephiroth and Artsa zoom it round her heavens...
1.76e: But however 'twas 'tis sure for one thing, what Sherif Toragh voucherfors...
1.76f: with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow, The Bey for Dybbling...
1.76g: and has been repreaching himself like a fishmummer these sixtyten years ever since...
1.76h: our old offender was humile, commune and ensectuous from his nature...
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FDV: "in a hull of a wherry"
with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry,
slang get the bum's rush: be forcibly turned out
rush growing out of Buddha's navel?
Ulster accent hull: hell
phrase hell of a hurry
wherry: a shallow boat
the twin turbane dhow The Bey for Dybbling,
turban (see also below)
turbine
dhow: a native vessel used in the Arabian Sea
why cap 'The'?
bey: Turkish governor
Dublin Bay
"fibble it... Dybbling"
this archipelago's first visiting schooner,
visiting scholar
with a wicklowpattern waxenwench at her prow for a figurehead,
County Wicklow
willow pattern: a pattern of blue-white English crockery, depicting willow-trees as a prominent feature
waxwork statue
obsolete waxen: grown up
dialect wench: young woman; maidservant
the deadsea dugong updipdripping from his depths,
Dead Sea
dugong: a marine mammal, perhaps responsible for mermaid stories
cf fw1.11 "With a nip nippy nip and a trip trippy trip so airy" and fw65 "in his tippy, upindown dippy, tiptoptippy canoodle, can you?"
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