potwalloping

Sad however because it lasts only a few years till they settle down to potwalloping and papa's pants will soon fit Willy and fuller's earth for the baby when they hold him out to do ah ah.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Are you so selfish as to want to have your mother -- my wife -- go on potwalloping in the kitchen for the rest of her days?

When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900

Protestant religion was to be propagated in Ireland, like the influence of a minister, by bribery; or like the influence of a county candidate, by money; or like the cause of a potwalloping canvasser, by the weight of the purse; as if Christ could not prevail over the earth unless Mammon took him by the hand.

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

Sad however because it lasts only a few years till they settle down to potwalloping and papa’s pants will soon fit Willy and fuller’s earth for the baby when they hold him out to do ah ah.

Ulysses 2003

They consulted the sortes or lots, and at the last election -- we have a potwalloping constituency here -- three parts of the voters would have done better if they had trusted to the toss-up of a penny instead of their reason. "

Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872