bosthoon

From this misbelieving feacemaker to his noncredible fancyflame. 1 Ask for bosthoon, late for Mass, pray for blaablaablack sheep.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Some Tipperary bosthoon endangering the lives of the citizens.

Ulysses 2003

Some Tipperary bosthoon endangering the lives of the citizens.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

'Say a pather an' avy, 'says I, I was that mad f'r th' big bosthoon f'r his blatherin '.

Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

An ', if he don't do annything, he's a dummy, an', if he does do annything, he's crazy; an 'whin he dies, his foreman says:' Sure, 'tis th 'divvle's own time I had savin' that bosthoon fr'm desthroyin 'himsilf.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Here he slackened his pace as we passed a small bosthoon driving a donkey, to call out facetiously, "Be good to your little brother, achree!"

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

"And it's a quare comether she must ha 'been after puttin' on him," quoth Mrs. Quigley, "afore he took up wid herself, that's as ugly as if she was bespoke, and half a dozen year oulder than the young bosthoon, if she's a minyit."

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

"Then it's the quare woman she must be, bedad," said Matt, "unless it's yourself's the quare bosthoon on her entirely, and maybe that's liker;"

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

Troth, and yourself's the quare ould child-desertin ', mane-spirited, aisy-frighted slieveen of a young bosthoon; but what sort of a conthrivance is it you have on you at all at all be way of a head that you couldn't have the sinse to considher the roof blowin' off a body's house 'ud be raison enough for them to be quittin' out of it, and no signs of dyin 'in the matter?

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

People declared that "they'd never have thought he'd take and do such a thing, for though he might ha 'been a quare sort of bosthoon, he was always dacint and paiceable."

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887