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These usages are arranged alphabetically, all having something to do with the theme of " religion, etc." For fuller information about each usage, see the main list.  There are twenty-six files there.  Just click on to the appropriate letter.
 

a lemmin pelter: member of the Orange Lodge

bagga yeast: priest

Cat'licks

Cogger: Catholic

Crate Egg: Irish Catholic immigrant

Farder flat (h)at: father what's-his-name

Farder Bunloaf:  father what's-his-name

first footer:first person over the threshhold at the beginning of the New Year

(H)ail Mury, a: a Catholic

Jesus Fluid: holy water

knee-bender: pious person

left-handed: a Catholic

left footer: a Catholic

monkey house: monastery

Oiveh Maria, a:  Catholic-Jewish wedding

penguin (h)ouse: nunnery

Proddy-Dog: Protestant

Prot or Protisant

rat catchers: Catholics

Redneck: Protestants or Catholics(depends on who's talking)

roller or roll-boy: a luridly pious person

sin shifter: parson, priest, or rabbi

sinner club:  synagogue

spoilt priest: ex-priest

sunbeams: church-bound children
 


SAYINGS (RELIGION)


 


dat's a dairty black Protistant lie!

Proddy-dog, Proddy-dog, sitt'n on a well; Up came ther devil an' pulled 'im down ter 'ell.

The Orange Lodge has prayer books with handles(because they are always in the pubs)

Never trust a nun, son.  You won't know your throat's been cut until your head starts nodding.