jough

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From a photograph by Barton Hall Caine's impressions of his life at Ballavolley are vivid--the old preacher at the church, the drinking-bouts of "jough"-beer by the gallon amongst the villagers, the donkey rides upon the curragh.

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  1. Drink. The tragical purpose usually lasted him over the short mile and a half … [to] the ‘Three Legs of Man,’and then it went down with some other troubles and a long pint of Manx jough. Hall Caine, The Deemster, xv.

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  • From a photograph by Barton Hall Caine's impressions of his life at Ballavolley are vivid--the old preacher at the church, the drinking-bouts of "jough"-beer by the gallon amongst the villagers, the donkey rides upon the curragh. —  McClure's Magazine December, 1895
  • -- "Lend's a hand with the jough then, boy. —  The Manxman A Novel - 1895
  • "Now for a pull of jough, Nancy," cried Pete. —  The Manxman A Novel - 1895
  • Manx herrings, English ale for a change on Manx jough; then dancing led by the mistress, to the tune of a fiddle, played faster and wilder as the night advances, reel and jig, jig and reel. —  The Little Manx Nation - 1891
  • Hall Caine's impressions of his life at Ballavolley are vivid -- the old preacher at the church, the drinking-bouts of "jough" - beer by the gallon amongst the villagers, the donkey rides upon the curragh. —  McClure's Magazine December, 1895
 

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  1. Manx jough = Gael. Irish deoch, Old Irish deug, a drink.
 

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