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VOCABULARY AND INDEX.
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Bad member; a doer of evil; a bad character; a treacherous fellow: 'I'm ruined,' says he, 'for some bad member has wrote to the bishop about me.' ('Wild Sports of the West.')
Baffity, unbleached or blay calico. (Munster.)
Bails or bales, frames made of perpendicular wooden bars in which cows are fastened for the night in the stable. (Munster.)
Baithershin; may be so, perhaps. Irish b'féidir-sin, same sound and meaning.
Ballowr (Bal-yore in Ulster); to bellow, roar, bawl, talk loudly and coarsely.
Ballyhooly, a village near Fermoy in Cork, formerly notorious for its faction fights, so that it has passed into a proverb. A man is late coming home and expects Ballyhooly from his wife, i.e. 'the length and breadth of her tongue.' Father Carroll has neglected to visit his relatives, the Kearneys, for a long time, so that he knows he's in the black books with Mrs. Kearney, and expects Ballyhooly from her the first time he meets her. ('Knocknagow.')
Ballyorgan in Co. Limerick, 146.
Banagher and Ballinasloe, 192.
Bannalanna: a woman who sells ale over the counter. Irish bean-na-leanna, 'woman of the ale,' 'ale-woman' (leann, ale).
Ballyrag; to give loud abuse in torrents. (General.)
Bandle; a 2-foot measure for home-made flannel. (Munster.)
Bang-up; a frieze overcoat with high collar and long cape.
