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Ulysses vocabulary

8 English vocabulary words more prevalent in Ireland

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staggering bob: synonyms: ~veal ???

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the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.

^{James Joyce. Ulysses}
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an animal to whom the knife only just anticipates death from natural disease or accident,—said of meat on that account unfit for human food. Also a newly-born calf.

^{John Camden Hotten. The Slang Dictionary (1913)}

image: by James Ward, https://www.wikiart.org/en/james-ward/cow-and-calf/

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(Staggering Bob, a whitepolled calf, thrusts a ruminating head with humid nostrils through the foliage.)

James Joyce. Ulysses

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