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McInerney -- the omadhawn -- starting forward at the same time, blundered up against him, and tumbled with him into a furze-bush.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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Anyway me father was contint enough; faix, some whiles he seemed a bit set up like, considherin 'he had the pull over me, and he'd be sayin' what at all 'ud we do without him, and I such an omadhawn.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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McInerney, whom people were apt to call an omadhawn.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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Why, you omadhawn, you hadn't quit ten minyits last night, and Nelly was just after gettin 'back, when who should come by but poor Mad Bell.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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"Now, don't go on loike an omadhawn, an 'make me angry, as ye did at foorst," he cried.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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It's jist, thin, I that will bate him – the unlucky omadhawn!
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"For what, you omadhawn?" said his mother, fiercely; for her woman's nature took part with Oonah's feelings, which she quite comprehended, and she was vexed with what she thought Andy's disgusting insensibility.
Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832
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"An 'how do you know but he'll be a girl, you omadhawn?"
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"You omadhawn," said he to Traynor, "I was only puttin 'up a dozen o' bottles into the tatch of the house, when you thought I was listenin ';" and, as a proof of the truth of this, he brought them out, and showed them some bottles of poteen, neatly covered up under the thatch.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"And 'Lave that, you omadhawn,' sez Tishy, wid the look of a divil on her, 'what foolery are you at now?'
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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