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stirabout

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stirabout [ˈstɜːrəˌbaʊt]
n
1. (Cookery) a kind of porridge orginally made in Ireland
2. a bustling person
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Her chapter titles are contemporary quotations, among them Chamberlain is a very un-Irish name, the respectable skirts of nationalism, and orgy of jobbery, the conscience of the 99%, justified by stirabout and redeemed by porridge, a long way of using a short word, and inner emigration.
The curious case of the Mayo librarian by Reference & Research Book News
There are moments when the period dialect feels a little too diligently researched: "The scent of stirabout in the wooden noggins drew the Bog Boys from their scalpeens.
Hard times by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The formidable adversaries were sixteen-year-old girls, who jeered at workhouse officials, and hurled heavy glass soda water bottles, platters, stones, and stirabout gruel at them, finally jumping the master.
Wild workhouse girls and the liberal imperial state in mid-nineteenth ... by Clark, Anna / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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