Friday, September 12, 2014

FW 1.50 --Mutt's sworn testimony--

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FDV: "Mutt— Somular to a bull in a Clompturf. I could snore with my owth by the neck I am sutton on O'Flynn." →
"Mutt— Somular to a bull in a Clompturf. I could snore to him woolseley side in with my owth by the neck I am sutton on old Brian O'Flinn."



MUTT: Somular with a bull on a clompturf.

similar to
modular? somnolent?

phrase like a bull in a china shop

longshot: bull-roarer: a piece of wood or bone making a roaring noise when swung round on the end of a string (used by druids and Australian aborigines for religious purposes)

Clontarf (coastal parish three miles northeast of Dublin centre and site of famous battle; name means 'Bull Meadow')


Rooks roarum rex roome!

rooks = crows; cheaters
roux = redhead; sauce-thickener

Latin rex rerum: king of wealth
rorem = moisture

Latin rex Romae: king of Rome

(no-punctuation suggests causality?)


I could snore to him of the spumy horn, with his woolseley side in,

Swiss German: schnore: chatter, talk
swear

spumy: covered with sea-foam, frothy
spermy?

horn: a piece of land projecting into the sea, a promontory
horn = erection

FDV: "I could snore with my owth"
Howth, oath
song Brian O'Linn: (had breeches with) 'The skinny side out and the woolly side in'
FDV above: " How I know it the livery greytecloke of Cedric Silkyshag with his hairyside out"

Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington


by the neck I am sutton on, did Brian d'O Flinn.

Isthmus of Sutton, joining Howth and the mainland (Greek isthmos: neck)

sitting
certain

song Brian O'Linn
Dublin
Black Linn: the highest point on Howth
Irish linn: pool



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