Vulgar words in Going to Maynooth - Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three (Page 1)
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Can you prove to me, upon a clear foundation, the differ atween black an' white, or prove that Phadrick Murray here, long life to him, is an ass?
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Why my judgment won't be worth a hap'orth, if he makes an ass of me!"
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Why, man, you'll know more nor you ever knew or suspected before, when he proves you to be an ass."
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"In the first place, fadher, you're ungrammatical in one word; instead of sayin' 'prove,' always say probate, or probe; the word is descended, that is, the ancisthor of it, is probo, a deep Greek word--probo, probas, prob-ass, that is to say, I'm to probe Phadrick here to be an ass.
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"But, Dinny, avourneen, you didn't prove Phadrick to be an ass yit.
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Why, man, if you were not a _rara avis_ of somnolency, a man of most frolicsome determinations, you'd be able to see that I've proved Phadrick to be an ass already."
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"Throth, I deny that you did; there wasn't a word about my bein' an ass, in the last discoorse.
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Another reminded him of "how often he proved Phaidrick Murray to be an ass, and showed him how he couldn't make out the differ atween black an' white."
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"The hussy," replied the father, "it's the supper she ought to have ready, instead of coortin' wid sich a larned vag----Heavens above me!
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Faix, if you always argue as bravely wid the Collegians as you did the day you proved me to be an ass you'll soon be at the head of them!"
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Why, now, you'd hardly b'lieve me, when I tell you that he'd prove you to be an ass in three minutes; make it as plain as the sun.
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He would; an' often made an ass o' myself."